Human Rights Watch Film Festival: "Silenced Voices"

The Dart Center co-sponsors a screening of "Silenced Voices," as part of the Human Rights Watch International Film Festival. The film tells the story of Lasantha Wickrematunge, editor-in-chief of The Morning Leader, who was gunned down by eight men in broad daylight in the capital, Colombo, and his newlywed and now widowed wife, Sonali Samarasinghe, who had to arrange his funeral only days after the wedding. As a lawyer and journalist, Samarasinghe worked closely with Wickrematunge, and the government forced her to leave the country not long after his killing. Since that time, Samarasinghe has been fighting for justice from her base in New York.

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Details

Film Society of Lincoln Center Walter Reade Theater
W. 65th Street between Broadway and Amsterdam
New York, NY

Screening followed by discussion with filmmaker Beate Arnestad and film subject Sonali Samarasinghe