Browse previous selections from the Human Rights Watch Film Festival
Hooligan Sparrow
A group of activists protesting the alleged rape of six girls by a school headmaster and a government official quickly become fugitives.
I Am Sun Mu
Since fleeing his native North Korea to defect to the south, the artist Sun Mu has worked under a defiant alias meaning “no boundaries” to criticize the repressive regime of Kim Jong-un.
Inside the Chinese Closet
Inside the Chinese Closet exposes the difficult decisions young LGBT individuals must make when forced to balance their quest for love with parental and cultural expectations.
Drawing the Tiger
Drawing the Tiger tells the story of a rural Nepalese family that has lived for generations as subsistence farmers, today surviving on less than a dollar per day.
The Look of Silence
<p>The<em> Look of Silence</em> is Joshua Oppenheimer’s powerful companion piece to the Oscar®-nominated <em>The Act of Killing</em> This unprecedented film initiates and bears witness to the collapse of fifty years of silence.</p>
Siddharth
In New Delhi, 12-year-old Siddharth is sent by his father Mahendra to work in a factory in another province to help support their family. Siddharth is supposed to come home in one month for the Diwali festival. When he fails to return or call, his dist
The Missing Picture
Director Rithy Panh won the Un Certain Regard prize at last year's Cannes for this startlingly original work, which uses handmade clay figurines and detailed dioramas to recount the suffering of Panh's family at the hands of the Khmer Rouge regime foll