Forum Film Festival, with guests Ayaan Hirsi Ali and Bret Stephens

Forum Film Festival: Submission,with guests Ayaan Hirsi Ali and Bret Stephens

Wednesday, October 22, 2014 | 7:00 p.m.
92nd Street Y, 1395 Lexington Avenue, New York, NY 10128

It’s been 10 years since Submission’s director, Theo van Gogh, was murdered in retaliation for making this film. See a screening of this controversial short film that confronts the violence against women that is permitted under the Koran and practiced in conservative Islamic cultures. Afterwards, Thane Rosenbaum leads a discussion with the film’s screenwriter, human rights activist Ayaan Hirsi Ali, and Pulitzer Prize-winning columnist Bret Stephens of The Wall Street Journal.

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The 9th Annual Forum Film Festival consists of several nights of films, documentaries, and original shorts that portray the legal system and human rights in alluring and illuminating ways, followed by post-screening discussions with renowned artists, writers, public intellectuals, and members of the legal profession.