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Streaming available in the US

Festival Details & Costs
  • General public: $9
  • Film festival pass: $35
  • HRW/ MOPA Members: Individual tickets $6  + Festival pass $20 (use discount code provided in your email newsletter. To sign up, visit hrw.org/filmconnect) 
  • High School students + teachers can view the films free: email lane@mopa.org for free ticket codes for your class. 

We do not want the cost of entry to these films to be a barrier for participation in these events. If the price of buying a ticket to this film would prevent you from participating, please email the following address (filmticket@hrw.org) + we will send you a free ticket code. We have set aside a set # of tickets per film on a first come first-served basis. Once the free tickets are no longer available, the code will no longer work. For anyone that purchases a ticket, we appreciate your support. Your ticket purchase enables us to make tickets free for those who might otherwise be unable to watch. This also allows the festival to support the filmmakers for sharing their work in our festival and for the festival to cover the cost of hosting the films online

Cinema Partners

What's Playing

#IAmVanessaGuillen

In 2018, US soldier Karina Lopez survived a sexual assault at Fort Hood military base. When Vanessa Guillen, another Latina service member, disappeared and is then murdered, Karina steps forward to share her story, creating the #IAmVanessaGuillen hashtag. Hundreds of service members chime in, exposing the cycle of abuse occurring on military bases and demanding justice. 

 

Women's Rights United States

And Still I Sing

Controversial Afghan pop star and activist Aryana Sayeed mentors young hopefuls as they prepare to appear on their country’s hit TV show Afghan Star. With two young women on the verge of being named the show’s first ever female winners, the Taliban take over and their lifelong dreams of becoming pop stars are suddenly under threat.

Women's Rights Asia

Category: Woman

Sport has a long and problematic history of policing women athletes' bodies. Category: Woman focuses on four women athletes from the Global South who are required to undergo medical intervention to compete in their sport, despite being in perfect health, and explores what happens when sexism and racism collide.

Women's Rights United States

Clarissa's Battle

Single mother and organizer Clarissa Doutherd is building a powerful coalition of parents. They’re fighting for child care and early education funds, desperately needed by low and middle-income parents and children across the United States.

Human Rights in the United States United States

Delikado

In Delikado, three environmental defenders are tested like never before in their battle to save their home, Palawan, an island in the Philippines, from the illegal destruction of its forests, fisheries, and mountains.

Health, Development and the Environment Asia

Uýra: The Rising Forest

Uýra, a trans Indigenous artist, travels through the Amazon on a journey of self-discovery using performance art to teach Indigenous youth that they are the guardians of ancestral messages of the Amazon Forest. In a country that kills the highest number of trans, Indigenous, and environmentalist youth worldwide, Uýra leads a rising movement while fostering unity and providing inspiration for the LGBTQIA+ and environmental movements in the heart of the Amazon Forest. 

Indigenous Peoples' Rights Americas

Tickets & Schedule

Watch anytime from February 3 — 9, 2022

#IAmVanessaGuillen

Digital film screening
Purchase ticket
$9 Public/ $6 Members with code
Restrictions

Streaming available in the US only 

Accessibility

This film features full English subtitles throughout

And Still I Sing

Digital film screening
Purchase ticket
$9 Public/ $6 Members with code
Restrictions

Streaming available in the US Only 

Accessibility

Closed captions available by selecting the "CC" icon on the streaming platform when watching the film. Full english subtitles throughout. 

Category: Woman

Digital film screening
Purchase ticket
$9 Public/ $6 Members with code
Restrictions

Streaming available for US audiences only 

Accessibility

Closed captions can be enabled during film streaming by selecting the "CC" icon.

Delikado

Digital film screening
Purchase ticket
$9 Public/ $6 Members with code
Restrictions

Available to stream in the US Only 

Accessibility

Audio Description + Closed Captioning available on streaming platform.

Uýra: The Rising Forest

Digital film screening
Q&A
Purchase ticket
$9 Public/ $6 Members with code
Restrictions

Streaming available in the US only

Accessibility

Closed captions available for digital streaming. Audience members should select the "CC" logo on our streaming site to enable captions.

Thursday, February 2, 2023

Clarissa's Battle

In-Person Event
Q&A
Reception
Purchase ticket to film + reception
$10 Public/ $8 MOPA + HRW Members with code
Restrictions

In-person event only 

Speakers

Featuring discussion to follow with film participant Clarissa Doutherd, Executive Director of Parent Voices Oakland, Director Tamara Perkins, Courtney Baltiyskyy of Children First Collective San Diego and Miren Algorri, Family childcare provider 

Accessibility

Audio Description available at this screening. Spanish language subtitles and live interpretation in Spanish of post-film Q&A

6pm: Opening Night Reception

7pm: Film screening, followed by Q&A

Free childcare available with RSVP (first come first served) 

Tuesday, February 7, 2023

Wednesday, February 8, 2023

Thursday, February 9, 2023

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