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Welcome to the website of Movies that Matter. Movies that Matter Foundation, an initiative of Amnesty International, organises wide-ranging film programmes in which human rigts take centre stage. Besides information about our activities, on this website you'll find an extended film database, a calender and news.

News items

The Seperation nominated for Oscar

January 25, 2012

A Separation received an Academy Award Nomination in the category of Best Foreign Language Film. Earlier this month, the Iranian film won a Golden Globe Award. Simin, who is married to Nader, wants to leave Iran together with her family. She has set everything up to leave ...

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No More Fear in Groningen

January 24, 2012

Tonight last chance to see the documentary No More Fear in Movies that Matter On Tour. At 21.00 hrs in Vera Zienema, Groningen. In this film about the Jasmine Revolution that shook Tunisia at the end of 2010 and the beginning of 2011, director Mourad Ben Cheikh follows human ...

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'No More Fear' about the Jasminrevolution in Tunesia at Kriterion, Amsterdam.

January 16, 2012

This Wednesday, January 18th, the documentary No More Fear will be screened at film theatre Kriterion in Amsterdam.  In this documentary about about the Jasminrevolution in Tunesia director Mourad Ben Cheikh follows human rights lawyer Rashia Nasroui, blogger Leen Ben Mheni and ...

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"Das leben der anderen" (The Lives of Others) is broadcasted tonight.

January 13, 2012

The German thriller Das leben der anderen (The Lives of Others) is broadcasted tonight  by Canvas at 22.40 hrs. This movie is situated in 1984 East Berlin, where an agent of the secret police, conducting surveillance on a writer and his lover, finds himself becoming increasingly ...

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'Life in El Salvador' Tonight on Al Jazeera.

January 09, 2012

'Life in El Salvador' Tonight on Al Jazeera. El Salvador, a small country in Central America, has been  torn by violence for many years. After a bloody civil war in the eighties, this country is now in the grip of a brutal battle between violent street gangs and the police. In ...

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