Human Rights Movies

In October 1995, Forbach witnessed one of the most violent strikes in the history of contemporary France. A thousand or so miners took to the streets...

La Chapelle neighbourhood, Paris. Hundreds of exiled people from East Africa survive on the streets, chased violently by the police, yet seeking to...

An urgent and powerful documentary, shot in a detention centre where asylum seekers trying to reach Australian shores are indefinitely detained....

Two students plot an escape from the campus besieged by police of the Hong Kong Polytechnic University in during the student-led anti-extradition...

Behind The Looking Glass is a film about the lives of women whose partners have or want to ‘transition’. While we hear a great deal of...

Four female friends from Egypt with opposing religious, social, and political views listen to one another's perspectives and argue openly, without...

Freedom From Choice explores the endless layers of backroom dealing that is the US lobbying industry. Through a series of thought-provoking...

Sara is a judge very committed to the cases she hears in her office. After meeting David, a young artist, on the beach, she must make decisions about...

An exodus of migrants settled in Tijuana and they hope to cross each day regardless of the consequences, the children tell us what they see, want and...

Throughout the Islamic world, each year hundreds of women are shot, stabbed, strangled or burned to death by male relatives because they are thought...

STATE OF FEAR takes place in Peru, yet serves as a cautionary tale for a world engaged in a "global war on terror." It dramatizes the human and...

Oxana is a woman, a fighter, an artist. As a teenager, her passion for iconography almost inspires her to join a convent, but in the end she decides...

"letters to eleanore" is a poignant feature-length documentary that explores the intertwined journeys of two remarkable girls, Keith from Canto...

Far from home, a young Burmese man struggles to escape the weight of a brutal and unforgiving military coup, threatening both his nation’s...

Quinta Seré, previously known as Mansión Seré, is a sports club where a clandestine detention and torture center was working...

A documentary on the struggle of millworkers, farmworkers, and people of Hacienda Luisita, Philippines.

Cerebral Palsy Blues has an interesting perspective on cerebral palsy. It's realistic yet poetic, angry yet life-affirming. Cerebral Palsy Blues is...