Icarus Films | Human Rights

Karen Refugees: Fleeing Burma’s Forgotten War

Thu, 21 Jan 2010 17:35:02 GMT

A courageous band of "backpack medics" slips through the jungle, avoiding army checkpoints, to deliver medical supplies and care to their people, the Karen minority of Burma.

Agustín's Newspaper

Wed, 09 Sep 2009 05:39:37 GMT

Journalism students at the University of Chile embark on an investigation of El Mercurio, the oldest newspaper in Chile.

The Inheritors

Wed, 09 Sep 2009 05:38:57 GMT

At early age children begin to work in the Mexican countryside. This is a portrait of theirs lives and their daily struggle for survival.

Lucanamarca

Tue, 10 Feb 2009 06:17:49 GMT

High in the Peruvian Andes, in the town of Lucanamarca, old wounds are re-opened when the Truth and Reconstruction Commission arrives to investigate a massacre from 20 years ago.

Dishonored

Tue, 09 Sep 2008 17:21:19 GMT

The story of Mukhtar Mai, whose demands for justice after being raped, led to an historic series of legal proceedings in Pakistan, and media coverage worldwide.

Killer's Paradise

Tue, 09 Sep 2008 17:20:46 GMT

Since 1999 more than two thousand women have been murdered in Guatemala. Yet law enforcement and government turn a blind eye.

Milosevic on Trial

Tue, 09 Sep 2008 17:19:34 GMT

Four years of the trial of Slobodan Milosevic, charged with 66 counts of war crimes, crimes against humanity and genocide for his role in the conflict in the former Yugoslavia.

Tracing Aleida

Tue, 09 Sep 2008 17:18:23 GMT

Thirty years after being separated when their parents "disappeared" during Mexico's "Dirty War" in the '70s, Aleida searches to uncover the truth, and to find her brother.