Prisoners in Time [US Premiere] screening with Dead Line [US Premiere] Series: Human Rights Watch International Film Festival 2008 [June 13 - 26] Country: United Kingdom
Prisoners in Time [US Premiere]
Stephen Walker, UK, 1995; 66m video
Eric Lomax (John Hurt), a former British soldier who was tortured as a prisoner of war of the Japanese, still suffers daily bouts of post-traumatic stress. Concluding that revenge is the only way to exorcise his ghosts, he searches for Nagase Takashi, the Japanese soldier he believes tortured him. But Lomax's quest leads him into dangerous territory, forcing him to question if redemption is ever possible after such terrible crimes have been committed. Winner of the 1995 Writer's Guild of Great Britain Award for Best Teleplay.
screening with
Dead Line [US Premiere]
Alex Marengo, UK, 1998; 30m video
Using Ariel Dorfman’s classic poems of exile and the “disappeared” as read by Bono, Emma Thompson, Juliet Stevenson, Harold Pinter and others, Dead Line follows a desperate Iraqi exile (Art Malik) through the streets of London. He searches for a magical phone that will allow him to call home and find out his brother's fate at the hands of the Saddam Hussein dictatorship.
