Browse previous selections from the Human Rights Watch Film Festival
I Am Not Your Negro
In I Am Not Your Negro filmmaker Raoul Peck envisions the book James Baldwin never finished.
Kiki
Through a strikingly intimate and visually daring lens, Kiki offers a riveting, complex insight into a safe space created and governed by LGBTQ youths of color, who demand happiness and political power.
Lindy Lou, Juror Number 2
For 20 years, Lindy has lived with an unbearable feeling of guilt. Committed to fulfilling her civic duty, Lindy sat on a jury with 11 other jurors that handed down the death penalty to a Mississippi man convicted in a double homicide.
Nobody Speak: Trials of the Free Press
When online tabloid Gawker posted a sex tape of former professional wrestler Hulk Hogan, a high-stakes legal battle pitting privacy rights against the First Amendment ensued.
Special Event Discussion Panel: From Audience to Activist
Today, ordinary people have the tools to hold power structures to account.
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.
(T)ERROR
<p><em>(T)ERROR</em> is the story of Saeed "Shariff" Torres, a 62-year-old former Black Panther-turned-counterterrorism informant for the FBI, and the first documentary to place filmmakers on the ground during an active FBI counterterrorism sting operation.</p>
6x9: An Immersive Experience of Solitary Confinement
Right now, more than 80,000 people are in solitary confinement in the US - locked in tiny concrete boxes where every element of their environment is controlled.
A Right to the Image with Matt Black
In our hyper-mediatized world, victims of human rights violations are often depicted in terms of bodies rather than individuals.
Chapter & Verse
After serving eight years in prison, reformed gang leader S. Lance Ingram re-enters society and struggles to adapt to a changed Harlem.
Growing Up Coy
How far would you go to fight for your child’s rights? When Coy, a six-year-old transgender girl is banned from using the girls’ bathroom at school - her parents take a stand.
Jackson
What is life like in a place where the antiabortion movement has made access to legal abortion almost impossible?