Browse previous selections from the Human Rights Watch Film Festival
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European Sneak Preview of Ground-Breaking Documentary
Join us for an exclusive European sneak preview of a ground-breaking and history-making documentary film.
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Far from the Tree
In a quest for understanding, this film encourages us to let go of our preconceptions – for example, about people with autism or dwarfism – and celebrate our loved ones for all that makes them uniquely themselves.
From Here
As the US and Germany grapple with racism, nationalism, and a fight against diversity, our protagonists move from their 20s into their 30s and face major turning points in their lives.
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Gather
Gather celebrates the fruits of the indigenous food sovereignty movement, profiling innovative changemakers in Native American tribes across North America reclaiming their identities after centuries of physical and cultural genocide.
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Imported For My Body
Wearing a hidden camera, Grace takes us into an underground world, where she spent six months paying a ‘debt’ to a cartel of madams and exposes a larger well-established network responsible for trafficking women from East and West Africa to India.
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In My Blood It Runs
What is it like to be a smart 10-year-old aboriginal boy in a remote part of Australia where 100 percent of youth in detention centers are your people?
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In the Executioner's Shadow
In the Executioner's Shadow casts a penetrating look at the consequences of the death penalty through three powerful stories.
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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.
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Midnight Traveler: London Benefit Gala
When the Taliban forces filmmakers and married couple Hassan Fazili and Fatima Hussaini to flee Afghanistan with their two daughters, they begin filming their time on the road, which includes running across borders, sleeping on roadsides, interacting with smugglers, and staying at multiple refugee camps along the way.
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Nae Pasaran
In solidarity against the brutal Chilean coup six months earlier, Scottish factory workers know where they stand.
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Our Mothers (Nuestras Madres)
Winner of the Caméra d'Or (Cannes Film Festival, 2019) this beautifully rendered drama weaves a tale taking us from the dark past to a personal search for the truth.
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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?