
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.

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.

Greenwich Entertainment shared the official trailer for Inshallah a Boy (Inshallah Walad), the Arabic thriller selected as Jordan’s official submission for Best International Film at the 96th Academy Awards. Mouna Hawa stars as Nawal, a widow who pretends to be pregnant with a son in order to save her daughter and home from a relative exploiting Jordan’s patriarchal inheritance laws.

11 films have been selected for this year’s 2023 Cannes International Critics’ Week (Semaine de la critique), with 7 first films and 6 directed by women. To kick off this 62nd edition, Ama Gloria, first solo film by French director Marie Amachoukeli – winner of the Caméra d’Or for Party Girl that she co-directed with Claire Burger and Samuel Theis. She delivers a delicate, intimate film about the deep connection between 6- year-old Cléo and Gloria, her nanny. Gloria must suddenly leave Cléo and return to Cape Verde. Marie Amachoukeli conveys with incredible grace cruel, heartbreaking farewells, awash in the summer sunlight.