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Festival Details & Costs

In-cinema and online

    Barbican in-cinema screenings:

    • £12 - Individual ticket price
    • £9.60 - Barbican member
    • £9 - Barbican Corporate Member
    • £5 - Young Barbican, Barbican Staff, City of London Staff

    This year, at Barbican there are a limited number of tickets for each in-person screening set aside as “pay what you can.”  See Barbican website for details. 

    Digital festival tickets:

    • £6 / €6 - Individual ticket
    • £4.80 / €4.80 - Individual ticket for Barbican/ HRW Members (with use of code)
    • £4.50/ €4.50  - Barbican Corporate Members (with use of code) 
    • £4 / €4 - Young Barbican members/ Students  (with use of code)
    • £50 / €50 - Digital festival pass with access to all 10 films   
    • £40 / €40 - Digital festival pass with access to all 10 films - Barbican/ HRW Member price (with use of code) 
    • We don't want cost of a ticket to be a barrier. Free tickets available by emailing filmticket@hrw.org

    Cinema Partners

    What's Playing

    Category: Woman

    Sport has a long and problematic history of policing women athletes' bodies. Category: Woman focuses on four women athletes from the Global South who are required to undergo medical intervention to compete in their sport, despite being in perfect health, and explores what happens when sexism and racism collide.

    Women's Rights United States

    Delikado

    In Delikado, three environmental defenders are tested like never before in their battle to save their home, Palawan, an island in the Philippines, from the illegal destruction of its forests, fisheries, and mountains.

    Health, Development and the Environment Asia

    I Didn't See You There

    When a circus tent is put up outside his apartment, filmmaker Reid Davenport, a wheelchair user, reflects on the corrosive legacy of the “freak show” and the paradoxical spectacle and invisibility of disability.          

    Disability Rights United States

    If the Streets Were on Fire

    In the UK, years of austerity have pushed people to their limits and youth violence has been on the rise. BikeStormz, a movement of young bikers, attempts to offer a safe and welcoming space. However, new forms of conflict arise when police and “concerned citizens” threaten arrest for their very existence.

    Children's Rights Europe

    Koromousso, Big Sister

    Canada-based co-directors Habibata Ouarme and Jim Donovan capture personal stories and deep moments of support in a small community of women from West Africa, who are confronting social norms and embracing the inherent power in pleasure and love for their own bodies. 

    Women's Rights Africa

    No U-Turn

    No U-Turn by celebrated Nigerian director Ike Nnaebue takes us on a journey with Nigerian citizens leaving their country, traveling north through Africa and beyond in search of work and opportunity to build a future, despite the known and unknown challenges lying ahead.

    Migrants' Rights Africa

    Seven Winters in Tehran

    In 2007, Reyhaneh Jabbari, 19, is sentenced to death in Iran for the murder of a man who tried to rape her. The efforts her family and supporters undertake open a window into the mass oppression and silencing of women in Iran, and the risks taken by those who defend and support them.

    Women's Rights Middle East

    Silent Love

    Silent Love is a coming-of-age and a coming-out story. Aga, 35, is legally adopting her teenage brother, Milosz, after their mother’s death – a process that invites intense probing into her lifestyle. However, there’s something she can’t share in their conservative Polish village: her long-term relationship with her girlfriend Maja.

    Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual,and Transgender (LGBT) rights Europe

    Theatre of Violence

    Dominic Ongwen is the first former child soldier prosecuted by the International Criminal Court (ICC). Theatre of Violence follows Ongwen’s lawyer and his team as they investigate, build a defence strategy, and try to answer the central question: how do we define “justice” when the perpetrator is also a victim? 

    Children's Rights Africa

    When Spring Came to Bucha

    In March 2022, Russian troops withdraw from a small town in the Kyiv region, and Ukrainian citizens emerge from their homes to clean their streets, rebuild, and face a new day while grieving all that’s been lost. This film poignantly captures how a small community continues with life amid trauma and loss, while war rages on close by.

    Crises and Migration Europe

    Tickets & Schedule

    Watch anytime from March 20 — 26, 2023

    Delikado

    Digital film screening
    Book your ticket
    Digital ticket £6 / €6
    Restrictions

    Available across the UK + Ireland only 

    Accessibility

    Captions + audio description available 

    No U-Turn

    Digital film screening
    Book your ticket
    Digital ticket £6 / €6
    Restrictions

    Available in UK + Ireland only 

    Accessibility

    Available with captions 

    Silent Love

    Digital film screening
    Book your ticket
    Digital ticket £6 / €6
    Restrictions

    Available in the UK + Ireland only 

    Accessibility

    Captions available 

    Thursday, March 16, 2023

    Delikado

    In-Person Event
    Q&A
    Reception
    Book your ticket
    In-person ticket £12
    Speakers

    Post-screening conversation with filmmaker Karl Malakunas, HRW's Environment and Human Rights researcher Luciana Téllez Chávez, and Lian Buan, Senior Reporter at Rappler

    Accessibility

    Captions and audio description available at this event 

    Ticketholders for this screening are invited afterwards to the Festival’s opening-night reception in the Barbican Conservatory and Garden Room (Level 3).

    Friday, March 17, 2023

    Category: Woman

    In-Person Event
    Q&A
    Book your ticket
    In-person ticket £12
    Speakers

    Post-screening conversation with filmmaker Phyllis Ellis, film participant and athlete Annet Negesa, and Dr Payoshni Mitra, CEO for The Global Observatory for Gender Equality & Sport. 

    Accessibility

    English captions and audio description available

    Saturday, March 18, 2023

    No U-Turn

    In-Person Event
    Q&A
    Book your ticket
    In-person ticket £12
    Speakers

    Post-screening conversation with filmmaker Ike Nnaebue via Zoom and Curator, Impact Producer and Author, Nadia Denton.

    Accessibility

    Captions and audio description available 

    When Spring Came to Bucha

    In-Person Event
    Q&A
    Book your ticket
    In-person ticket £12
    Speakers

    Post-screening conversation with filmmaker Mila Teshaieva, Ukrainian Human Rights Activist and Digital Strategist Val Voshchevska, and Rachel Denber, Deputy Director, Europe & Central Asia, Human Rights Watch (via Zoom) - moderated by Steve Crawshaw, Author and former London director, Human Rights Watch 

    Accessibility

    Captions and audio description available 

    Sunday, March 19, 2023

    I Didn't See You There

    In-Person Event
    Q&A
    Book your ticket
    In-person ticket £6
    Speakers

    Post-screening conversation with filmmaker Reid Davenport via Zoom, and Kym Oliver and Jumoke Abdullahi - Co-founders of The Triple Cripples.

    Accessibility

    Captions and audio description available. This event is being presented in a relaxed format and is open to all.

    If the Streets Were on Fire

    In-Person Event
    Q&A
    Sold Out
    Speakers

    Post-screening conversation with filmmaker Alice Russell and film participant Miles C, moderated by Moya Lothian-McLean, Contributing Editor at Novara Media.

    Tuesday, March 21, 2023

    Silent Love

    In-Person Event
    Q&A
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    In-person ticket £12
    Speakers

    Post-screening conversation with filmmaker Marek Kozakiewicz (via Zoom) and Marta Lempart, Founder of the Polish Women’s Strike, moderated by Hillary Margolis, Senior Researcher, Women's Rights Division, Human Rights Watch

    Accessibility

    Captions and audio description available at this event

    Wednesday, March 22, 2023

    Seven Winters in Tehran

    In-Person Event
    Q&A
    Sold Out
    Speakers

    Post-screening conversation with filmmaker Steffi Niederzoll and film participant Sholeh Pakravan via Zoom, British/Iranian artist Soheila Sokhanvari, and HRW's Women's Rights senior researcher Rothna Begum.

    Thursday, March 23, 2023

    Koromousso, Big Sister

    In-Person Event
    Q&A
    Book your ticket
    In-person ticket £12
    Speakers

    Post-screening conversation with filmmakers Habibata Ouarme and Jim Donovan, Bethel Abera, Founder & Director of Hidden Scars, and Dr. Leyla Hussein, Founder of The Dahlia Project and Global Advocacy Director of the Africa-led Movement to End FGM.

    Accessibility

    Captions and audio description available at this event 

    Friday, March 24, 2023

    Theatre of Violence

    In-Person Event
    Q&A
    Sold Out
    Speakers

    Post-screening conversation with filmmaker Lukasz Konopa, Uganda and Tanzania researcher at Human Rights Watch, Oryem Nyeko and moderated by Yasmine Ahmed, UK Director of Human Rights Watch.

    Festival Details

    Accessibility

    Select screenings will offer Audio Description and Open Captions for the films - both in-person and online - and CART (live transcription) of in-person conversations. Please see each film's individual film page on our site for specific accessibility info for each title.

    Both screenings of I Didn't See You There will be presented in a relaxed format and are open to all.

    Barbican Cinemas are wheelchair accessible. Further details on cinema accessibility can be found here. Please contact Barbican staff as soon as you book your ticket to confirm your wheelchair seat by emailing tickets@barbican.org.uk or via phone on 020 3855 4745.

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