An itemized casualty list of calamities across multiple nations, The Trials of Henry Kissinger is something of a microcosm of the 2002 Human Rights Watch festival itself. Condensing Christopher Hitchens's enraged deposition into 80 lucid minutes, directors Alex Gibney and Eugene Jarecki map out Kissinger's collusions with Nixon and Ford in the short-circuiting of the '68 Paris peace talks, secret bombing of Cambodia, upending of democracy in Chile, and savaging of East Timor. More..

After Sept. 11, this year's Human Rights Watch International Film Festival, which shows movies with a strong social and political conscience, has acquired a new and inescapable resonance. To put it plainly, our blinders are off: it's no longer possible in the United States to imagine that the political and social upheavals in other countries don't affect us. More..

As a young girl growing up in Israel, Rachel Leah Jones found herself drawn to the hillside artist colony Ein Hod because the landscape reminded her of her early childhood in Northern California. It was only later that Ms. Jones understood why this village in the foothills of Mount Carmel, with its old stone houses and sloping alleys, had such a powerful, almost magical effect on her. More..

For 14 years Reza Khatibi was an Iranian living in exile in Paris, but he was not a political refugee. That is, he was neither a militant opponent of the Tehran regime, nor had he been forced to flee Iran by persecution. Rather, he escaped the country in 1986 at age 17 out of an instinct for survival: to avoid fighting in the bloody Iran-Iraq war. For Iranian authorities he was simply a deserter. More..

Unlike many photojournalists who went to Afghanistan after the United States began its campaign against Taliban forces in October, Zalmai Ahad knew the country on a personal level. He was born in Kabul in 1964, fled the country in 1980 soon after the invasion of Soviet troops, made Switzerland his home, studied photography and has worked as a freelance photographer since the late 1980's. More..