Browse previous selections from the Human Rights Watch Film Festival
Voices of the Sea
In this tiny, remote Cuban fishing village, Mariela, a mother of four young children, longs for a better life.
What Will People Say
<p>Sixteen-year-old Nisha lives a double life.</p>
Whose Streets?
Told by the activists and leaders who live and breathe this movement for justice, Whose Streets? is an unflinching look at the Ferguson uprising in the US.
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?
Women of the Venezuelan Chaos
Embodying strength and stoicism, five Venezuelan women from diverse backgrounds each draw a portrait of their country as it suffers under the worst crisis in its history.
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.
500 Years
A gripping courtroom drama, 500 Years documents the first trial in the history of the Americas to prosecute the genocide of an indigenous people.
A Syrian Love Story
Filmed over 5 years, A Syrian Love Story charts the incredible odyssey of comrades and lovers Amer and Raghda to political freedom.
All Governments Lie
Mainstream, corporate news outlets have successfully reduced the validity and trustworthiness of news reporting in recent times.
Almost Sunrise
Two friends, in an attempt to put their haunting combat experiences behind them, embark on an epic 2,700-mile trek on foot across America seeking redemption and healing as a way to close the moral chasm opened by war.
Bill Nye: Science Guy
A famous television personality struggles to restore science to its rightful place in a world hostile to evidence and reason.
Black Code
Based on Ronald Deibert’s book of the same name, Nicholas de Pencier’s gripping Black Code follows “internet sleuths” - or cyber stewards - from the Toronto-based group Citizen Lab.