Human Rights Watch International Film Festival

in collaboration with
African Film Festival
and
Film Aid International

Presents:



The Dictator Hunter

Starting June 15th!



The Dictator Hunter (US premiere)
Sun June 15: 3:30PM; Mon June 16: 6:30; Tues June 17: 1:30


Klaartje Quirijns, The Netherlands, 2007, 75m.

In English, French and Arabic with English subtitles



Souleymane Guengueng, a former civil servant, watched hundreds of his cellmates perish from torture and disease during two years in prison under Chadian dictator Hissene Habré. Guengueng took an oath before God that if he ever got out alive, he would bring his tormentors to justice. Habré fell from power in 1990, and Guengueng's quest for justice began. For the past eight years Guengueng has been joined in the chase by Reed Brody-known as Human Rights Watch's "dictator hunter" for his work on the case of Chile's former tyrant Augusto Pinochet. Now Habré lives in Senegal, where Brody and Guengueng are attempting to have him brought to trial or extradited. In The Dictator Hunter we follow Brody and Guengueng over the course of two suspenseful and critical years. The Dictator Hunter shows what committed individuals can accomplish when working relentlessly to break the cycle of impunity.

All films are screened at:

Walter Reade Theater at Lincoln Center
165 West 65th Street, upper level
(between Broadway and Amsterdam Ave.)
Subways: to 66th Street Lincoln Center
Buses: M5 M7 M104

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