2018

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. 

Buddhist monk and award-winning activist Venerable Luon Sovath is harassed, censored, and evicted by his own religious leaders when he becomes a key figure in the land-rights protests that led up to the “Cambodian Spring”.

When Khatera, a 23-year-old Afghan woman, forces her father to stand trial after a lifetime of sexual abuse, she risks her family, freedom, and personal safety.

Within a constant political turmoil, Amal searches for her place, identity and sexuality in a patriarchal society.

Khonsaly Hay returns to his lush, serene village in Cambodia after over 40 years living in France and comes face-to-face with his former Khmer Rouge persecutors.

What if your country was swallowed by the sea?

Oscar-nominated filmmaker Rebecca Cammisa explores the atomic secrets of St. Louis, Missouri.

This timely, coming of age story follows Ava, a teenage girl whose life is dictated by the constraints of her conservative, patriarchal community in Tehran.

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.

During this session, we explore the challenges as well as opportunities involved in environmental activism.

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.

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

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. 

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

Jaha's Promise is a touching story about a young girl's struggle to take control of her own body.

For the past eight years Muhi, a young boy from Gaza, has been trapped in an Israeli hospital.

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.

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

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

In a deeply personal journey, Strike A Rock follows Primrose and Thumeka--two South African activists, grandmothers, and best friends--as they take on the platinum mining company, Lonmin Plc.

This is a story of two South African mothers and best friends, Primrose Sonti and Thumeka Magwangqana, who together take on Lonmin PLC, the third largest platinum-extractor in the world.

Since the failed coup in July 2016, the Turkish government has intensified its crackdown on its political opponents and critical voices in society.

This explosive documentary takes a behind the scenes look at one of America’s most pressing human rights struggles, and asks the audience: what would you do, if this violence found its way to your doorstep? 

Who controls what you see on the internet?

“We have days of silence. But they are so deadly - even worse than explosions. It’s the lull before the storm.”

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.

Worldwide more than one billion people have a disability and they are one of the most invisible and marginalized populations in the world.

Business and human rights are closely connected in many ways. 

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.

A locked door inside a Belgrade apartment has kept one family separated from their past for over 70 years.

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.”

Lake Volta in Ghana is the largest man-made lake in the world; it is also notorious as a locale for forced child labor.

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.

In August 2015, Ukrainian film director and Maidan activist Oleg Sentsov was sentenced to 20 years in prison in Siberia for terrorism.

"We have years of activism under our belts. Now we just fight harder, we fight smarter, and we fight as one."

The Workers Cup follows one group of men from among the 1.6 million migrant workers preparing for the world’s largest sporting event.

A whistleblower, a patriotic military commander, a mineral dealer, and a displaced tailor share a glimpse of life amid Africa’s longest continuing conflict.

It is our time now to step forward and say, "OK, it’s not about what gender I am, it’s about if I can get the job done. And we for years have shown that, so why not acknowledge us?"

In this tiny, remote Cuban fishing village, Mariela, a mother of four young children, longs for a better life. 

<p>Sixteen-year-old Nisha lives a double life.</p>

Told by the activists and leaders who live and breathe this movement for justice, Whose Streets? is an unflinching look at the Ferguson uprising in the US.

What can photographs do, and what do we want them to do, in visualizing human rights issues?

Embodying strength and stoicism, five Venezuelan women from diverse backgrounds each draw a portrait of their country as it suffers under the worst crisis in its history.

Mosul: a city in ruins, captured by IS for more than three years, is now facing new conflicts and a long, difficult way to overcome the aftermath.