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Watchers of the Sky
Inspired by Samantha Power’s Pulitzer Prize-winning
book, A Problem From Hell, Oscar-nominated director
Edet Belzberg presents an artistic and intellectually
rigorous film on the history of genocide. Beginning with
the story of Raphael Lemkin, the unsung hero who
coined the phrase “genocide,” the film explores Lemkin’s
passionate writing and fervent fight to have genocide
recognized as a global crime. His story is told alongside
four other remarkable individuals: Samantha Power,
US ambassador to the United Nations; Luis Moreno
Ocampo, chief prosecutor with the International
Criminal Court; Benjamin Ferencz, Nuremberg
prosecutor; and Emmanuel Uwurukundo, UN refugee
officer. All of them are inspired by Lemkin to work
towards ending the systematic elimination of a people.
Spanning Bosnia, Darfur, the Nuremberg trials and
the extermination of the Armenians, this film presents
one of the most comprehensive and compelling looks
at the history of genocide. Heather Haynes, Hot Docs
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