Browse previous selections from the Human Rights Watch Film Festival
I Am Not Alone
I am Not Alone captures the energy and hopefulness of grassroots protest and direct action.
No Box for Me. An Intersex Story (Ni d'Eve ni d'Adam. Une histoire intersexe)
This beautifully crafted, poetic documentary joins brave young people as they seek to re-appropriate their bodies and explore their identities, revealing both the limits of binary visions of sex and gender, and the irreversible physical and psychological impact of non-consensual surgeries on intersex infants.
Saf
In the Fikirtepe district of Istanbul, Kamil and his wife Remziye are at risk of losing their home. Urban transformation is pushing out local families and Syrian refugees are left to take shelter in the deserted buildings.
The Trial of Ratko Mladic
Filmed over five years through November 2017, The Trial of Ratko Mladić follows the case closely, as Mladić is tried in the International Criminal Court in The Hague for genocide and crimes against humanity.
12 Days
Every year in France, 92,000 people are placed under psychiatric care without their consent. By law, the hospital has 12 days to bring each patient before a judge.
Taking Stock of Human Rights in Turkey
Since the failed coup in July 2016, the Turkish government has intensified its crackdown on its political opponents and critical voices in society.
The Distant Barking of Dogs
“We have days of silence. But they are so deadly - even worse than explosions. It’s the lull before the storm.”
The Impact of Companies and Consumers: Clothing, Energy and Human Rights
Business and human rights are closely connected in many ways.
The Other Side of Everything
A locked door inside a Belgrade apartment has kept one family separated from their past for over 70 years.
The Silence of Others
A 1977 amnesty law in Spain known as "the pact of forgetting" prohibits legal action related to the oppression, torture, and murder of an estimated 100,000 people during Franco’s 40-year dictatorship.
The Trial: The State of Russia vs. Oleg Sentsov
In August 2015, Ukrainian film director and Maidan activist Oleg Sentsov was sentenced to 20 years in prison in Siberia for terrorism.
Dreaming of Denmark
For 17-year-old Wasiullah, who spent three years in asylum centres after arriving alone from Afghanistan, Denmark has become his home.