The International Film Festival ‘Watch Docs’ continues in Warsaw with seventeen films competing for the ‘best documentary’ award.

The films were selected from almost 1000 documentaries probing into human rights violations in various parts of the world, such as China, Mexico and communist Romania.

The most eagerly awaited films include El Sicario – Room 164 by Gianfranco Rosi, a chilling confession of a Mexican killer working for drug lords on the US border; a British-Cambodian production The Enemies of the People about a man who spent more than ten years trying to uncover the truth about the genocide perpetrated by the Khmer Rouge in Cambodia, and The Autobiography of Nicolae Ceausescu, a film made up of previously unpublished footage showing the dictator’s private life.

The programme of the festival also includes a retrospective of the most interesting documentaries and feature films which had been banned by censorship because of their political, religious or moral agenda.

Organized on the initiative of the Helsinki Human Rights Foundation, it is one of the world’s major festivals of documentaries which explore various aspects of human rights and civic liberties in present-day world. (mk)