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“This film stands as proud testament to the ability within us all to see each other as neighbours and to forgive any transgression, regardless of the severity. As a member of humanity, you each owe it to yourselves to see this film, to be touched by it, moved by it, empowered by it.”
Huff Post Impact
“Beyond Right and Wrong is a tribute to … peacemakers.”
PsycCRITIQUES
“[F]ew documentary films have attempted to depict the process from horror to forgiveness…. Roger Spottiwoode and Lekha Singh’s film Beyond Right and Wrong: Stories of Justice and Forgiveness is an exemplary exception.”
Every Film Blog
“[A]s thought-provoking as any film is likely to be this year….”
Corner Magazine
“Arresting, thought-provoking and eye-opening….”
Special Screening for the U.N. 2012
United Nations Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon presented the film to the General Assembly in New York on 13 September 2012. He quoted Desmond Tutu, who said, “Forgiving is not forgetting. It is actually remembering and not using your right to hit back.”
Two commentators in the film also spoke during the session: Lord John Alderdice, Chairman of the Liberal Democrats in the House of Lords, and Marina Cantacuzino, founder and director of The Forgiveness Project. After this screening, the United Nations adopted a resolution titled “Strengthening the Role of Mediation and the Peaceful Settlement of Disputes, Conflict Prevention and Resolution” (A/RES/66/291).
Hollywood Reporter
“Inspiring and hopeful without downplaying hard realities about human nature…[Beyond Right and Wrong] smartly gathers different kinds of on-topic stories and pairs them with just enough outsider commentary to lend psychological, moral, and political perspective.”
The Guardian
“Beyond Right and Wrong examines powerful stories of ordinary people in Rwanda and Israel/Palestine who have let go of perfectly natural punitive instincts in the name of a brighter tomorrow, one not trapped by the hatreds of the past.”
Forbes
“The film was jawdroppingly inspiring.”
