PATOIS: The New Orleans International Human Rights Film Festival
This is a past event- The Broad Theater
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The social-justice-oriented film festival lands at Mid-City’s The Broad Theater.
Still from director Amber Fares’ Speed Sisters (2015).
PATOIS: The New Orleans International Human Rights Film Festival, founded in 2004, returns, screening four days of films that address social-justice issues in the city and beyond. This year’s films include Ecohybridity, a short film about the displacement of black bodies after Hurricane Katrina; Pinkwashing Exposed: Seattle Fights Back (2015), a documentary exposing the ways in which countries use “gay friendliness” to improve their image; and Speed Sisters (2015), a film about the first all-woman race car driving team in the Middle East.
Visit the film festival’s website for a full schedule.
