The Movies that Matter festival, the successor to the Amnesty International Film Festival, opens on March 26th in The Hague. The week long festival will present some 70 human rights films and documentaries along with daily talk shows and debates featuring international guests.

Camera Justitia
Camera Justitia is a special programme within the festival focusing on international justice and the fight against impunity - the field in which the International Criminal Court and several other tribunals in The Hague operate.

This year’s Camera Justitia programme includes seven documentaries:

Petition, which follows Chinese citizens who dare to face the authorities and complain about the corruption of their local officials.

Mugabe and the White African deals with the resistance of white farmers against land expropriation in Zimbabwe.

War Don Don looks at the trial of convicted Sierra Leonean war criminal, Issa Sesay, before the Special Court for Sierra Leone (SCSL) in Freetown, Sierra Leone.

The Trial follows the war crimes trial of the of Kosovo’s prime minister before the International Criminal Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia (ICTY) in The Hague.

My Neighbour, My Killer goes inside Rwanda’s Gacaca courts, where perpetrators of the Rwandan genocide are forced to confront their victims.

Crude, an award-winning documentary about the thirty thousand Ecuadorians who filed a lawsuit against Texaco in 1993.

And finally, Getting Justice sheds light on the impunity that followed the 2008 post-election violence in Kenya.

Camera Justitia kicks off on Friday March 26th with the Dutch premiere of the documentary War Don Don, followed by a daily programme of selected films and debates with international guests, until 31 March.

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