Six films that show how people with courage, ingenuity and perseverance are challenging the powerful to obtain justice.

Award-winning documentaries and feature films about today’s critical human rights abuses 

  • Presentations by experts and opinion leaders

  • Free and open to the public

  • Presented by Duquesne’s Department of Modern Languages and Literatures

All films will be shown at 7:00 pm
105 College Hall

World Premiere:

Wednesday, February 22

Memory: A Holocaust Survivor's Story (2012)

 Director: Dr. Dennis Woytek
Assistant Professor of Journalism and Multimedia Arts, Duquesne University

Speaker: Dr. Alan Rosen
Author of The Wonder of Their Voices: The 1946 Holocaust Interviews of David Boder (Oxford UP, 2010. Library Journal's European History Best Seller); Lecturer, Yad Vashem's International Institute for Holocaust Research

The film will be shown in the Power Center.

 

 

2012 Human Rights
Film Series:

Dignity & Disgrace

Thursday, January 19
Lost Angels
The plight of the homeless in LA

 

Monday, Jan. 23
Bag It
The impact of plastic on our planet and human health

 

Wednesday, Feb. 1
Inside Job
An inside look at the financial crisis of 2008

 

Thursday, February 9
Blue Gold: World Water Wars
The global water crisis

 

Thursday, February 16
When We Leave
Honor killings in patriarchal societies

 

Wednesday, February 22
Memory: A Holocaust's Survivor's Story
World premiere showing, produced by Dr. Dennis Woytek, Duquesne University