The Reckoning March 5, 2010

The Reckoning: The Battle For The International Criminal Court

Part of the Southern Circuit Tour of Independent Filmmakers

Launched in 2002, the International Criminal Court (ICC) is the first international tribunal of its kind. A permanent criminal court created to prosecute individuals, no matter how powerful, for crimes against humanity, war crimes, and genocide.

THE RECKONING is a feature-length documentary follows the dynamic and charismatic Prosecutor Luis Moreno Ocampo, Deputy Prosecutor Fatou Bensouda and Senior Trial Attorney Christine Chung as they issue arrest warrants for the Lord’s Resistance Army leaders in Uganda, put four Congolese warlords on trial at The Hague, challenge the UN Security Council to support the Court’s call for an arrest warrant for the President of Sudan on charges of genocide, and shake up the Colombian justice system.

Filmed at ICC headquarters in The Hague for three years with unprecedented access to the inner workings of the Court, THE RECKONING puts in high relief the mounting drama of the international justice movement, embodied in this tiny court that is struggling to change the world and how we think about justice.

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