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Festival Details & Costs

Tickets go on sale to the public:

  • May 2 - Tickets on sale to HRWFF email subscribers + cinema members 
  • May 3 - Public tickets on sale

Digital tickets:
Individual ticket: $9 
Film at Lincoln Center/ IFC/ HRW members with use of code: $6
Digital film festival pass: $70

In-Cinema Tickets at Film at Lincoln Center: 
General Public: $17
Seniors (62+) / Persons with Disabilities / Students: $14
FLC Members & HRW Subscribers: $12
Groups of 10 or more tickets: $10 per ticket.
Discount Package: Buy tickets to 3 or more films at once and save: $15 General Public; $12 for Students & Seniors, $11 for FLC Members & HRW Members.

In-Cinema Tickets at IFC Center: 
General Public: $17
IFC Cinema Members & HRW Subscribers: $12
Seniors (62+) and patrons with the MTA reduced-fare MetroCard for people with disabilities: $14
Groups of 10 tickets or more: $14 per ticket

Health and Safety: 
Please note: Face masks and vaccination are strongly recommended at Film at Lincoln Center but not required. Masks are encouraged at all events. If you have been exposed to someone who tested positive for COVID-19 in the past 10 days, a face covering is required at all times. All FLC staff have received full vaccination and booster shot.

Cinema Partners

What's Playing

Digital Festival pass

A Digital Film Festival Pass provides you with online access to all 10 digital festival titles.

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Draw Me Egypt - Doaa El-Adl, A Stroke of Freedom

Doaa el-Adl is one the most prominent of the very few female cartoonists in the Arab world. Draw me Egypt - Doaa El-Adl, A Stroke of Freedom creatively blends documentary, cartoons and animation to bring to life this courageous artist’s thoughts on politics and feminism as she uses her talent to advocate for women’s rights.

Women's Rights Middle East

Into My Name (Nel Mio Nome)

Nic, Leo, Andrea and Raff are four trans masculine friends from Italy on a journey of self-discovery as they seek to determine their own gender identities while together dealing with society’s imposed physical, legal, and social boundaries, and the labyrinthine process of navigating the medical system.

 

Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual,and Transgender (LGBT) 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

Pay or Die

The US healthcare system is the most expensive in the world; almost half of all Americans reportedly struggle to pay for health care. Pay or Die explores the crushing financial reality for millions of insulin dependent Americans living with diabetes, as pharmaceutical companies push the price of this life saving medication to exorbitant levels, making record breaking profits. This is only further bolstered by the government’s lack of regulation.  

Health and Human Rights United States

Razing Liberty Square

When residents of the Liberty Square public-housing community in Miami learn about a $300 million revitalization project, they know that the sudden interest comes from the fact that their neighborhood is located on the highest and driest ground in the city. Now they must prepare to fight a growing form of racial injustice—climate gentrification.

 

Environment and Human Rights United States

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

The Etilaat Roz

In August 2021, staff at the most widely read newspaper in Kabul, ‘Etilaat Roz’, are left with an impossible choice after the Taliban seize power: stay and continue reporting—risking torture, imprisonment, and death—or join thousands of others attempting to flee the country. ‘Etilaat Roz’ staff member Abbas Rezaie films his colleagues as they navigate the days that changed their lives and the direction of the country.   

Journalism Asia

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

We Are Guardians

As the Indigenous Brazilian forest guardians of the Tenetehara fend off attacks from illegal loggers, miners, and exporters, this global story shares what happens when Indigenous rights, land stewardship, environmental science, and political corruption converge, leaving the fate of the Amazon and it’s Indigenous communities in the balance.

Environment and Human Rights Americas

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 June 5 — 11, 2023

Pay or Die

Digital film screening
Purchase ticket
$9 Public/ $6 Members with code
Restrictions

Available for streaming online in the US only 

Accessibility

English captions available.

Wednesday, May 31, 2023

Seven Winters in Tehran

In-Person Event
Q&A
Reception
Purchase tickets
$17 public / $12 Members
Speakers

Discussion to follow screening with filmmaker Steffi Niederzoll and Tara Sepehri Far, senior researcher, Middle East & North Africa division, Human Rights Watch, moderated by Nilo Tabrizy, Visual Forensics Reporter at The Washington Post.

Accessibility

This film is captioned and audio-described; the discussion panel following the film will be live-captioned.

Ticketholders for this screening are invited afterwards to the Festival’s opening-night reception in the Furman Gallery.

Thursday, June 1, 2023

Friday, June 2, 2023

Razing Liberty Square

In-Person Event
Q&A
Purchase tickets
$17 public / $12 Members
Speakers

Discussion to follow the screening with filmmaker Katja Esson, film participant Aaron McKinney and Valencia Gunder, activist, organizer and film participant. Moderated by Tanya Greene, Director of Human Rights Watch's US Program.

Accessibility

This film is captioned and audio-described; the discussion panel following the film will be live-captioned.

Saturday, June 3, 2023

Into My Name (Nel Mio Nome)

In-Person Event
Q&A
Purchase tickets
$17 public / $12 Members
Speakers

Discussion to follow with filmmaker Nicolò Bassetti, Matteo Bassetti and Chase Strangio, Deputy Director for Transgender Justice with the ACLU’s LGBT & HIV Project. Moderated by Felix Endara, filmmaker, programmer and arts administrator.

Accessibility

This film is captioned and audio-described; the discussion panel following the film will be live-captioned.

Sunday, June 4, 2023

Theatre of Violence

In-Person Event
Q&A
Purchase tickets
$17 public / $12 Members
Speakers

Discussion to follow with filmmaker Lukasz Konopa and Nicholas Opiyo, Executive Director of Chapter Four Uganda. Moderated by Elise Keppler, Associate Director, International Justice program, Human Rights Watch.

Accessibility

This film is captioned and audio-described; the discussion panel following the film will be live-captioned.

We Are Guardians

In-Person Event
Q&A
Purchase tickets
$17 public / $12 Members
Speakers

Discussion to follow screening with film participant and activist Puyr Tembé, filmmakers Edivan Guajajara, Chelsea Greene and Rob Grobman, and Andrea Carvalho, Environment & Human Rights senior research assistant at HRW.

Accessibility

This film is captioned and audio-described; the discussion panel following the film will be live-captioned.

Monday, June 5, 2023

We Are Guardians

In-Person Event
Q&A
Purchase tickets
$17 public / $12 Members
Speakers

Discussion to follow screening with film participant and activist Puyr Tembé, filmmakers Edivan Guajajara, Chelsea Greene and Rob Grobman.

Accessibility

This film is captioned and audio-described; the discussion panel following the film will be live-captioned using audience member's mobile phone/device.

Tuesday, June 6, 2023

Razing Liberty Square

In-Person Event
Q&A
Purchase tickets
$17 public / $12 Members
Speakers

Discussion to follow the screening with filmmaker Katja Esson and Cynthia Travieso, Deputy Director, Community Voices Heard.

Accessibility

This film is captioned and audio-described; the discussion panel following the film will be live-captioned.

Wednesday, June 7, 2023

When Spring Came to Bucha

In-Person Event
Q&A
Purchase tickets
$17 public / $12 Members
Speakers

Discussion to follow screening with filmmaker Mila Teshaieva and Rachel Denber, Deputy Director, Europe & Central Asia Division, Human Rights Watch.

Accessibility

This film is captioned and audio-described; the discussion panel following the film will be live-captioned.

Thursday, June 8, 2023

Pay or Die

In-Person Event
Q&A
Purchase tickets
$17 public / $12 Members with code
Speakers

Discussion to follow with filmmakers Rachael Dyer & Scott Alexander Ruderman, film participants Nicole Smith Holt and James Holt Jr., and Human Rights Watch's Economic Justice & Rights Researcher, Matt McConnell.

Accessibility

This film is captioned and audio-described; the discussion panel following the film will be live-captioned.

Festival Details

Accessibility

Please check each individual film screening's listing on our site, to confirm inclusive offerings available. Select films include Audio Description and captioning, including live-captioning of post-screening discussion in-cinema. 

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