Browse previous selections from the Human Rights Watch Film Festival
Angkar
Khonsaly Hay returns to his lush, serene village in Cambodia after over 40 years living in France and comes face-to-face with his former Khmer Rouge persecutors.
Burma and Human Rights Imagery: From Portraits to Satellites
In this master class featuring a variety of imagery from the Rohingya crisis in Burma, we will explore the use of photography and satellite imagery.
Facing the Dragon
Afghan-American filmmaker Sedika Mojadidi joins two awe-inspiring women on the front lines.
Insha'Allah Democracy
Filmmaker Mo Naqvi will vote for the first time during Pakistan's elections. But Mo has a tough choice.
What Will People Say
<p>Sixteen-year-old Nisha lives a double life.</p>
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?
Complicit
Shot below the radar, Complicit follows the journey of Chinese migrant worker-turned-activist Yi Yeting, a Foxconn factory worker who takes his fight against the global electronic industry from his hospital bed to the international stage.
Girl Unbound
“I want to tell girls, fear is taught; that you are born free and you are born brave.” - Maria Toorpakai, film subject, Girl Unbound
Joshua: Teenager vs. Superpower
Rallying thousands of students to skip school and occupy the streets of Hong Kong, teenager Joshua Wong becomes one of the autonomous territory’s most notorious dissidents.
The Apology
Grandma Gil in South Korea, Grandma Cao in China, and Grandma Adela in the Philippines were amongst thousands of girls and young women who were sexually exploited by the Imperial Japanese Army during World War II.
What Tomorrow Brings
What Tomorrow Brings follows one year in the life of the first all-girls school in a remote, conservative Afghan village.
Among the Believers
An unsettling and eye-opening exploration into the spread of the radical ideology of the Red Mosque Islamic school in Pakistan, which trains children to devote their lives to jihad, or holy war, from a very young age.