The Human Rights Arts & Film Festival has released its full program for next month.
Launching the festival will be Alias Ruby Blade, a documentary about the tumultuous birth of East Timor and Australian activist Kirsty Sword's relationship with Timorese resistant Kay Rala 'Xanana' Gusmão. Following this, the HRAFF will host a collection of films and exhibitions, including Tim Page's Requiem, a selection of photographs taken during the Cambodian civil war, and Ombline, the story of a woman raising her child in prison.
Closing the festival will be In the Shadow of the Sun, a harrowing documentary of the ritual killing of albinos in Tanzania. In the Shadow of the Sun follows albino Josephat Torner who decides stop these killings once and for all.
The Human Rights Arts & Film Festival will run from Thursday May 9 – Thursday May 23, and will be hosted at the following venues: ACMI, Yarra Gallery Federation Square, The Dax Centre, The Ownership Project, Bella Union, and RMIT Links Arts and Culture Space.
Link: http://hraff.org.au/
Carlos Flores