"JUSTICE AND/OR RECONCILIATION: A HUMAN RIGHTS FILM SERIES"
to take place January 25 - February 22, every Sunday at 7PM
Sponsored by the University of Chicago Human Rights Program, the Humanities Division, and the Film Studies Center

Providing films covering a breadth of situations that require healing, forgiveness, and justice, the Human Rights Program hopes to encourage thoughtful discussion and action to determine whether reconciliation (or forgiveness) may coexist with ideas of justice, and how exactly we mend life after human catastrophe.

At the Film Studies Center (Cobb Hall, Rm 306, 5811 S. Ellis Avenue):
January 25
Vietnam Long Time Coming (180 minutes, Kartemquin Films, 1998, 35 mm)
Gordon Quinn and Jerry Blumenthal, makers of Vietnam Long Time Coming, from Chicago’s Kartemquin Films () will be introducing the film and answering questions at a special reception in the Film Studies Center after the screening.

February 1
The Pinochet Case( 109 minutes, Patricio Guzman, 2001, 35 mm)
Andreas Feldman, Post-doctoral fellow in the Human Rights Program at the University of Chicago, will be introducing the film and facilitating discussion after the screening.

At Breasted Hall, The Oriental Institute (1155 East 58th Street):
February 8
When the War is Over (52 minutes, Francois Verster, 2002 ,VHS)
Prexy Nesbitt, activist and scholar of South Africa for over thirty years and an instructor at Columbia College, will be introducing the film and facilitating discussion after the screening.

February 15
My Terrorist (58 minutes, Yulie Cohen Gerstel, 2002, VHS)
Judy Hoffman, activist and filmmaker from Kartemquin Films and instructor in Cinema and Media Studies at the University of Chicago, will be introducing the film and facilitating discussion after the screening.

February 22
GACACA: Living Together Again in Rwanda? (55 minutes, Anne Aghion, 2002, VHS)
Speaker TBA.


For special needs assistance or questions, please contact Maureen Loughnane at (773) 834-0957 or human-rights (at) uchicago.edu OR Cristina Moon at (773) 732-4365 or cmoon (at) uchicago.edu