main programme camera justitia
Camera Justitia sheds light on the many angles of the human rights and justice theme, using films and debates on transitional justice, careful administration of national and international justice and the fight against impunity. Hence, a program that is closely connected to the field in which the International Criminal Court and several other tribunals in The Hague operate.　
Camera Justitia features films screenings followed by in-depth programmes, the Camera Justitia Award en the Camera Justitia Masterclass.
Masterclass
The Movies that Matter Festival invites students of law, social and political sciences to attend the Camera Justitia/A Matter of ACT Masterclass with United Nations Special Rapporteur on the situation of Human Rights Defenders, Margaret Sekaggya. For More information, click here.
The Films
This year the Camera Justitia selection consists of seven documentaries Carte Blanche, Crime after Crime, Give Up Tomorrow, The Guantanamo Trap, Justice for Sale, Love Crimes of Kabul and Peace vs Justice.
The programme
The selected films will be screened throughout the festival week, and are followed by debates with international guests. At the Camera Justitia Night on Friday March 23rd, Justice for Sale, the final part of the Congo trilogy by Dutch directors Femke and Ilse van Velzen will be screened.
ICC Prosecutor Luis Moreno-Ocampo at the opening of Camera Justitia 2009
The jury and award
At the closing night of the festival, an international jury, formed by lawyer Bart Stapert, producer and director Pieter Fleury and director of Human Rights Watch in the Netherlands Anna Timmerman, will hand out the Camera Justitia Award to the director of the winning film from this programme.
The prize consists of the Silver Butterfly and €3,000.
