Now in its 28th year, the Human Rights Watch Film Festival in London, from 14-22 March, 2024, presents a line-up of 10 award-winning, international feature-length films.
Human Rights Watch Film Festival
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2023 Human Rights Watch Film Festival Unveils Lineup, Opens with Seven Winters in Tehran Documentary
Seven Winters in Tehran directed by Steffi Niederzoll (Courtesy of Made in Germany) From the Ukraine conflict to transgender rights, the 2023 Human Rights Watch Film Festival will present 10 new films from May 31 to June 11, 2023 in New York at Film at Lincoln Center and IFC Center.
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Delikado and Theatre of Violence Headline Human Rights Watch Film Festival in London’s Documentary Film Line-up
Delikado directed by Karl Malakunas The Human Rights Watch Film Festival, now in its 27th year in London, presents a line-up of 10 award-winning, international documentary films at the Barbican from March 16-24, 2023, and digitally across the UK and Ireland on the festival website from March 20-26, 2023.
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Human Rights Watch Film Festival New York Edition Reveals 2022 Lineup
The Janes directed by Tia Lessin and Emma Pildes. [HBO] The Human Rights Watch Film Festival, now in its 33rd year, will present a full edition of 10 groundbreaking new films, available both in-person and online nationwide in the U.S., from May 20 to 26, 2022. For the first time in two years, the New York festival will be back with a full program of in-person screenings at Film at Lincoln Center and IFC Center, with in-depth discussions with filmmakers, film participants, activists and Human Rights Watch researchers. The festival will continue to offer the opportunity to watch all 10 new films online across the U.S. with a full digital edition of the film festival.
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Human Rights Watch Film Festival Unveils Full Lineup of Films for Online 2021 Edition
Forget Me Not directed by Olivier Bernier The Human Rights Watch Film Festival, now in its 32nd year, unveiled the lineup for its second full digital edition, available nationwide in the U.S. from May 19 through 27, 2021. The film festival will feature in-depth online discussions with filmmakers, film participants and Human Rights Watch researchers and advocates.
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‘The 8th’ Opens and ‘Unapologetic’ Closes 25th Human Rights Watch Film Festival, UK Digital Edition Lineup
(l to r) Janaé and Bella in UNAPOLOGETIC The 2021 Human Rights Watch Film Festival celebrates 25 years with a full digital edition featuring 10 powerful and uplifting new documentaries available to stream across the UK on Barbican Cinema On Demand from March 18-26, 2021.
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Erika Cohn’s BELLY OF THE BEAST to World Premiere at Human Rights Watch Film Festival New York Digital Edition
Belly of the Beast directed by Erika Cohn Filmed over seven years with extraordinary access and intimate accounts from currently and formerly incarcerated people, Erika Cohn’s ‘Belly of the Beast‘ exposes modern-day eugenics and reproductive injustice in California prisons. The film will have its World Premiere as the opening night film of the 2020 Human Rights Watch Film Festival New York Digital Edition taking place June 11-20, 2020.
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Human Rights Watch Film Festival Launches Digital Edition
Erika Cohn’s Belly of the Beast Amidst the Covid-19 health crisis, for the first time ever, the Human Rights Watch Film Festival will present a digital edition of its full slate of films from June 11-20, 2020. Expanding beyond New York City, the festival announced the first eight films of the line up that will enjoy their U.S. Digital Festival Premieres, making the films available nationwide. In keeping with the festival’s long-standing tradition of contextualizing films with conversations, online screenings will feature in-depth discussions with filmmakers, film subjects and Human Rights Watch researchers. The festival plans to return to Film at Lincoln Center and IFC Center next year and beyond.
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Irish Abortion Rights Documentary THE 8TH to Premiere at Human Rights Watch Film Festival
The 8th directed by Lucy Kennedy, Maeve O’Boyle, and Aideen Kane The documentary The 8th from directors Lucy Kennedy, Maeve O’Boyle, and Aideen Kane tells the story of Irish women and their fight to overturn one of the most restrictive abortion bans in the world. The film will have its U.S. premiere at the 2020 Human Rights Watch Film Festival, taking place June 11-20, 2020.
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Kenyan Documentary I AM SAMUEL to U.S. Premiere at Human Rights Watch Film Festival NY Digital Edition
I am Samuel directed by Pete Murimi Kenyan director and 2019 Rory Peck Award winner, Pete Murimi’s documentary I am Samuel will have its U.S. premiere at 2020 Human Rights Watch Film Festival New York Digital Edition in June. The documentary had its World Premiere at the 2020 Hot Docs Canadian International Documentary Festival.
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Eunice Lau Tackles Radicalization in Documentary ACCEPT THE CALL at Human Rights Watch Film Festival
Accept the Call directed by Eunice Lau In the new documentary film Accept the Call from Eunice Lau, a father seeks to understand why his son is accused of terrorism. Accept the Call will world premiere at 2019 Human Rights Watch Film Festival in New York.
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Jason DaSilva’s Multiple Sclerosis Documentary WHEN WE WALK to Premiere at Human Rights Watch Film Festival
WHEN WE WALK by Jason DaSilva Disability activist and filmmaker Jason DaSilva will premiere When We Walk the follow-up to his 2013 documentary When I Walk, at the 2019 Human Rights Watch Film Festival in New York City on June 14, 2019. The second film in the ‘When They Walk’ trilogy confronts the U.S. Medicaid system and new personal challenges; Filmmaker Jason DaSilva explains the disparity between the different states and national healthcare crisis as he tries to be closer to his son who lives 2,000 miles away.