Browse previous selections from the Human Rights Watch Film Festival
The Cleaners
Who controls what you see on the internet?
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 Force
The Force presents a deep look inside the long-troubled Oakland Police Department as it struggles to confront federal demands for reform, civil unrest, and layers of inefficiency and corruption.
The Forgotten Billion: Giving Voice to People with Disabilities
Worldwide more than one billion people have a disability and they are one of the most invisible and marginalized populations in the world.
The Impact of Companies and Consumers: Clothing, Energy and Human Rights
Business and human rights are closely connected in many ways.
The Long Season
In the Beqaa Valley of Lebanon lies refugee camp Majdal Anjar, where a small community of the country’s approximately 1.2 million Syrian refugees live.
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 Poetess
Saudi poetess Hissa Hilal made headlines around the world as the first woman to reach the finals of the Arab world’s biggest televised poetry competition, “Million’s Poet.”
The Rescue List
Lake Volta in Ghana is the largest man-made lake in the world; it is also notorious as a locale for forced child labor.
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.
The Unafraid
"We have years of activism under our belts. Now we just fight harder, we fight smarter, and we fight as one."