Browse previous selections from the Human Rights Watch Film Festival

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.

Challenges and Opportunities for Environmental Activists
During this session, we explore the challenges as well as opportunities involved in environmental activism.

Charm City
During three years of unparalleled violence in Baltimore, Maryland, award-winning filmmaker Marilyn Ness takes viewers beyond the headlines and into the lives of community members, police, and government officials.

Facing the Dragon
Afghan-American filmmaker Sedika Mojadidi joins two awe-inspiring women on the front lines.

From Baghdad to the Bay
An Iraqi translator for the US military is wrongfully accused of being a double agent, and over the course of his interrogation by the military, his culturally forbidden sexuality comes to light.

Insha'Allah Democracy
Filmmaker Mo Naqvi will vote for the first time during Pakistan's elections. But Mo has a tough choice.

Jaha's Promise
Jaha's Promise is a touching story about a young girl's struggle to take control of her own body.
Muhi - Generally Temporary
For the past eight years Muhi, a young boy from Gaza, has been trapped in an Israeli hospital.

Naila and the Uprising
When an uprising breaks out in the Occupied Palestinian Territories in 1987, a young woman in Gaza must make a choice between love, family, and freedom.

On Her Shoulders
Nobel Peace Prize winner Nadia Murad is a 25-year-old lifeline to the Yezidi community.

On My Way Out
Roman (Popi) and Ruth (Nani) Blank have been married for 65 years, but at age 95, Roman reveals a secret that tests their seemingly invincible union, in Brandon and Skyler Gross' touching portrait of their grandparents.

Silas
Silas celebrates the power of individuals to fight back against the power of money and politics.