Human Rights Watch
Eden is West - Benefit Gala
Master filmmaker Costa-Gavras crafts an epic story of our times — the journey of an emigrant in search of a better life — full of heart, humor, and wondrous complexities.
As in The Odyssey, the Aegean Sea is the setting where our hero, Elias, sets out on his adventures. On the same waters, under the same sun and the same sky as the dawn of civilization. After countless incidents and accidents, a stopover in paradise and a sojourn in hell, the magical conclusion of his journey takes place in Paris.
Paris, the shining city in the deepest dreams, in the most uncertain sleep of wanderers.
EDEN IS WEST attempts to echo the path, the journey of those (once our fathers and mothers) who cross through lands, braving oceans and seas of uniforms, looking for a home.
Elias' story is not that of Ulysses, nor is it mine. But I see myself in Elias, a foreigner who is not foreign to me. – Costa-Gavras
* Closing Night, Berlin Film Festival 2009
EDEN IS WEST courtesy of KG Productions/Pathé Distribution/France 3/Odeon/Novo RPI
6:00pm Doors open
6:30pm Screening and conversation with Costa-Gavras and Carroll Bogert, Associate Director Human Rights Watch
9:00pm Reception
Ticket prices begin at $500.
Please contact brittany.mitchell@hrw.org for more information.
Tickets can be purchased online, http://hrw.kintera.org/benefit2009.
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Eden is West
Walter Reade Theater at The Film Society of Lincoln Center, 165 W. 65th St
As in The Odyssey, the Aegean Sea is the setting where our hero, Elias, sets out on his adventures. On the same waters, under the same sun and the same sky as the dawn of civilization. After countless incidents and accidents, a stopover in paradise and a sojourn in hell, the magical conclusion of his journey takes place in Paris.