A La Calle captures the remarkable courage of the Venezuelan people as they unite to restore liberty, fundamental rights, and the rule of law
I Am Samuel
Filmed over five years, I Am Samuel is an intimate portrait of a Kenyan man balancing pressures of family loyalty, love, and safety and questioning the concept of conflicting identities.
Reunited
A story of love across borders, and the compromises a family must make when it is torn apart by circumstances beyond its control. When Rana and Muhkles are forced to flee the war in Syria in a desperate search for stable and secure futures for their family, they are separated from their children.
European Sneak Preview of Ground-Breaking Documentary
Join us for an exclusive European sneak preview of a ground-breaking and history-making documentary film.
Leftover Women
This eye-opening documentary follows three women in their gruelling quest to find a husband, weighing the cost of family and society’s approval against their own chances of happiness.
Nae Pasaran
In solidarity against the brutal Chilean coup six months earlier, Scottish factory workers know where they stand.
Practice or Preach: Protest Anno 2020
Nonviolent mass movements are the primary challenges to governments today. Yet the success rates declined dramatically over the past decades. What makes or breaks a mass movement?
Afghan Cycles
What lengths would you go to in order to ride a bicycle? Afghan Cycles follows a new generation of young Afghan women cyclists.
Ghost Fleet
Bangkok-based Patima Tungpuchayakul has committed her life to rescuing and returning home men from Myanmar, Laos, Cambodia, and other Southeast Asian nations who have been sold to Thai fishing companies by human traffickers.
Prosecuting Evil: The Extraordinary world of Ben Ferencz
The fascinating story of Ben Ferencz—the last surviving Nuremberg prosecutor and lifelong advocate of “law not war.” After witnessing Nazi concentration camps shortly after liberation, Ferencz became lead prosecutor in the Einsatzgruppen case at Nuremberg, which has been called the biggest murder trial in history.
Screwdriver (Mafak)
After spending more than a decade in prison for an attack on an Israeli settler, Ziad struggles to readjust to life in Ramallah, lost in a world he barely recognizes.
Burma and Human Rights Imagery: From Portraits to Satellites
In this master class featuring a variety of imagery from the Rohingya crisis in Burma, we will explore the use of photography and satellite imagery.
Challenges and Opportunities for Environmental Activists
During this session, we explore the challenges as well as opportunities involved in environmental activism.
Jaha's Promise
Jaha's Promise is a touching story about a young girl's struggle to take control of her own body.
Muhi - Generally Temporary
For the past eight years Muhi, a young boy from Gaza, has been trapped in an Israeli hospital.
Silas
Silas celebrates the power of individuals to fight back against the power of money and politics.
Taking Stock of Human Rights in Turkey
Since the failed coup in July 2016, the Turkish government has intensified its crackdown on its political opponents and critical voices in society.
The Forgotten Billion: Giving Voice to People with Disabilities
Worldwide more than one billion people have a disability and they are one of the most invisible and marginalized populations in the world.
The Impact of Companies and Consumers: Clothing, Energy and Human Rights
Business and human rights are closely connected in many ways.
The Trial: The State of Russia vs. Oleg Sentsov
In August 2015, Ukrainian film director and Maidan activist Oleg Sentsov was sentenced to 20 years in prison in Siberia for terrorism.
The Workers Cup
The Workers Cup follows one group of men from among the 1.6 million migrant workers preparing for the world’s largest sporting event.
Why We Need More Than a Photograph to Change the World
What can photographs do, and what do we want them to do, in visualizing human rights issues?
Youth Revive Mosul with Hope, Energy and Social Media
Mosul: a city in ruins, captured by IS for more than three years, is now facing new conflicts and a long, difficult way to overcome the aftermath.
Chasing Asylum
Chasing Asylum exposes the negative impact of Australia’s offshore detention policies and explores how Australia became a country where leaders choose detention over compassion.
Complicit
Shot below the radar, Complicit follows the journey of Chinese migrant worker-turned-activist Yi Yeting, a Foxconn factory worker who takes his fight against the global electronic industry from his hospital bed to the international stage.
Do Not Resist
Winner of Best Documentary Feature at Tribeca Film Festival,Do Not Resist opens with shocking scenes from Ferguson, Missouri, to introduce an array of stories that collectively detail the disturbing realities of American police culture.
Dreaming of Denmark
For 17-year-old Wasiullah, who spent three years in asylum centres after arriving alone from Afghanistan, Denmark has become his home.
Lost in Lebanon
<p>As the war threatens to leave a generation of young Syrians without education, health care or a state, Lost in Lebanon follows four Syrians who are building a community, sharing resources and attempting to advocate for themselves in their new land.</p>
No Dress Code Required
Víctor and Fernando, a devoted, unassuming couple from Mexicali, Mexico, find themselves in the center of a legal firestorm over their desire to get married.
The Apology
Grandma Gil in South Korea, Grandma Cao in China, and Grandma Adela in the Philippines were amongst thousands of girls and young women who were sexually exploited by the Imperial Japanese Army during World War II.
The Heart of Nuba
Welcome to the war-torn heart of the Nuba Mountains of Sudan, where doctor Tom Catena selflessly and courageously serves the needs of a forgotten people.
The Uncondemned
Both a real-life courtroom thriller and a moving human drama, The Uncondemned tells the gripping story of a group of young international lawyers, activists, and Rwandan women who fought to have rape recognized as a war crime.
Tickling Giants
Dubbed, “The Egyptian Jon Stewart,” Bassem Youssef hosts the most popular television programme in the Middle East.
When Two Worlds Collide
What happens when the thirst for power and riches takes priority over human life?
Among the Believers
An unsettling and eye-opening exploration into the spread of the radical ideology of the Red Mosque Islamic school in Pakistan, which trains children to devote their lives to jihad, or holy war, from a very young age.
At Home in the World
Multi-award winning filmmaker Andreas Koefoed intimately portrays ordinary children in extraordinary circumstances
Cartel Land
With unprecedented access, Cartel Land is a harrowing look at the journeys of two modern-day vigilante groups and their shared enemy – the murderous Mexican drug cartels.
Desperate Journey
More than one million asylum seekers and migrants have arrived in Europe by sea.
I Am Sun Mu
Since fleeing his native North Korea to defect to the south, the artist Sun Mu has worked under a defiant alias meaning “no boundaries” to criticize the repressive regime of Kim Jong-un.
Life Is Sacred
Violence is part of everyday life in Colombia, where the military, guerrillas, paramilitaries, and drug cartels have been fighting for decades, and hundreds of thousands of people have been killed.
No Land's Song
<p>A political thriller and a musical journey,<em>No Land's Song</em> never loses sight of its real center - the female voice.</p>
Out to Win
In Out to Win gay and lesbian professional athletes discuss coming out, and the effect it had on their lives and sporting careers.
The Diplomat
THE DIPLOMAT tells the remarkable story of the life and legacy of Ambassador Richard Holbrooke, whose singular career spans fifty years of American foreign policy from Vietnam to Afghanistan.
The Wanted 18
<p>Through a clever mix of stop motion animation and interviews, <em>The Wanted 18</em> recreates an astonishing true story: the Israeli army's pursuit of 18 cows.</p>
E-TEAM
When atrocities are committed in countries held hostage by ruthless dictators, Human Rights Watch sends in the Emergencies Team, a collection of fiercely intelligent individuals who document war crimes and report them to the world.
Evaporating Borders
A visual essay in five parts, Evaporating Borders is told through a series of vignettes that explore the lives of asylum seekers and political refugees on the island of Cyprus.
First to Fall
First to Fall is an intimate story of friendship, sacrifice, and the madness of war. It bears witness to the irreversible transformation of two friends, and the price they pay for their convictions.
Syria: Bullets and Countershots
For the Abounaddara Collective, "films should burst out like bullets to break the silence. They should tell the Syrian story with great narrative intensity and make the viewer look at reality differently."
Virunga
A powerful combination of investigative journalism and nature documentary, Virunga is the incredible true story of a group of courageous people risking their lives to build a better future in a part of Africa the world's forgotten, and a gripp