Browse previous selections from the Human Rights Watch Film Festival
The Grown-Ups
For almost their entire lives a group of forty-something classmates have grown up together and are reaching the age of 50 with varying degrees of frustration. Anita, Rita, Ricardo and Andrés feel that the school they attend for people with Down’s Syndrome is confining.
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 Settlers
<p>The Settlers cracks open the world of Jewish settlers in the occupied West Bank: their daily lives, their worldviews, and their position within Israel.</p>
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.
They Call Us Monsters
In this powerful documentary, Juan, Jarad and Antonio, ages 14 to 16, face decades in prison in California, where juveniles older than 14 can be tried as adults for violent crimes.
Tickling Giants
Dubbed, “The Egyptian Jon Stewart,” Bassem Youssef hosts the most popular television programme in the Middle East.
Watatu
Watatu follows the story of three men whose lives become intertwined as one of them becomes radicalised.
We Can't Make the Same Mistake Twice
The new film from celebrated documentarian Alanis Obomsawin chronicles the events following the filing of a human-rights complaint by a group of activists, which charged that the federal government's woefully inadequate funding of services for indigenous children constituted a discriminatory practice.
We'll Be Alright
With immense sensitivity for its subjects We’ll Be Alright highlights just how arbitrary and abusive the Russian care system can be.
What Tomorrow Brings
What Tomorrow Brings follows one year in the life of the first all-girls school in a remote, conservative Afghan village.
When the Mountains Tremble
In the early 1980s, death squads roamed the Guatemalan countryside in a war against the unarmed indigenous population that went largely unreported in the international media.
When Two Worlds Collide
What happens when the thirst for power and riches takes priority over human life?