International

It aims to promote open society, democratic values, rule-of-law, freedom of expression, political and cultural pluralism, and to expose abuse and global human rights violations through creative, quality documentaries. Document is the only dedicated international human rights documentary film festival in Scotland. Document began in 2003 and this year we will present our 17th edition of the festival.

Festival calendar

It takes place every year in Kyiv in the last week of March. After the end of the festival, Docudays UA traditionally presents the best films in Ukrainian regions during the Traveling Festival. Screenings and discussions of films with human rights experts last from October until December. Throughout the year, Docudays UA popularizes auteur documentary cinema in film theaters as a part of the DOCU/HIT project.

• Its main event takes place every year in Valencia the second week of February but the whole year is full of activities not just in Valencia but in the whole region and there are some international screenings.
• Stewart led the board in studying and recommending films across a variety of genres and eras to be considered for the registry.
• Some films are among the 2 million moving image collection items held in the Library of Congress.
• We have our own screenings, our own sound, our own audience.
• The Festival of Human Rights Film is an initiative that is part of the San Sebastian, Space for the Culture of Peace project.

HRFN supports handbook to encourage new human rights film festivals

As Reporters without Borders has stated, “Journalism is in the process of being eradicated in the Gaza Strip as a result of Israel’s refusal to heed calls to protect media personnel”. We add our voices to RSF’s call to allow international media to enter Gaza and independently report from the territory in the same way that international journalists are also reporting on the conflict from other locations. Human Rights Film Festival “Inconvenient Films” is an annual documentary film festival established in 2007. The mission of this non-profit initiative is to raise awareness on human rights issues around the world and to connect them to those that are present in Lithuania. To promote awareness and debate on human rights worldwide, Movies that Matter cooperates with many other film festivals.

“Inspired by a poem by Paul Laurence Dunbar (who died of tuberculosis in 1906, at the age of 33), “Compensation” takes an unusual narrative approach. Guided and approved by director Zeinabu irene Davis, this 4K digital restoration was undertaken by the Criterion Collection, the UCLA Film and Television Archive, and Wimmin With a Mission Productions in conjunction with The Sundance Institute from a scan of the 16mm original camera negative. MUSOC, the Social and Human Rights Film Exhibition, began in 2012. Since then, it takes place every January in many cities and towns in Asturias, Spain. The fiction, animation, and documentary films that are screened focus on human right issues around the world and raise awareness about social and human experiences that promote justice, equality and solidarity. Free Zone Film Festival is meant to foster a debate on topical issues in the world today.

“The Janes” inspires those unsure of what to do now that abortion rights are the most threatened they’ve been in decades. “Reversing Roe” is an excellent introduction to anyone interested in the state of abortion and choice in the United States. While it may not dig too deeply into many issues, it sets up a foundation for viewers and inspires them to more learning and action.

These projects combined reached more than 2,8 million (online) visitors. On April 15, the director of the WATCH DOCS Belarus film festival Tatsiana Hatsura-Yavorskaya was released from a detention center in Minsk. To highlight and call attention to the human rights and humanitarian catastrophe, Network festivals will be holding special thematic editions and screenings. To dispel stereotypes and put his own stamp on the era, Sidney Poitier directed “Uptown Saturday Night,” a fun, entertaining, go-for-broke crime comedy about UNSPOKEN two blue-collar workers trying to recover a stolen wallet containing a winning lottery ticket.

He have no time to make cinema because he’s trying to save his life. And show us how you are going to make it to say, ‘Sorry for the cinema.’” And then we agree, and we come with this film, the one that everybody watching now, Sorry Cinema. As Israel’s relentless war on Gaza enters its 15th month, we turn now to a film that’s been shortlisted for this year’s Oscars, From Ground Zero, a collection of 22 short films made in Gaza by Palestinian filmmakers surviving Israel’s bombings. In 1999, the UN contracted former policewoman Kathryn Bolkovac as a human rights abuse investigator in Bosnia.

We know when Hamas get out and they attack and they hostage people and they kill people and they arrest people. Me, myself, I know also many, many massacres that the Israelis did before 7 October. This struggle, it started more than 77 years ago, before 1948. The members of the Human Rights Film Network organise many events during the year. However, due to the coronacrisis, many festivals are cancelled or postponed. We can therefore not guarantee whether the information below is still correct and up-to-date.

Recent massive upheavals in the Arab region since the first edition (in 2010) have made it imperative to seek the exchange of expression, ideas, opinions and experiences on human rights issues across the region and the world. The festival’s core theme is human dignity (Karama is Arabic for dignity). The idea for a film about Camp Jened started with lunch between James LeBrecht and Nicole Newnham. Lebrecht, a filmmaker and disability rights activist, mentioned how he’d like to see a film about his summer camp.

This Netflix original short follows three volunteer rescue workers in Aleppo, Syria, and Turkey. Their official name is the Syrian Civil Defence, but they’re recognized by their white helmets. Formed in 2014 during the Syrian Civil War, most of the volunteers work in Syria providing medical evacuation, search and rescue, and service delivery. Over half a billion people depend on coral for protection, their income, and food. Coral reefs are also a source of new medicines like antivirals and cancer-fighting drugs. In “Chasing Coral,” a team of scientists, divers, and photographers around the world set out to discover what’s happening to coral reefs, which are disappearing at an alarming rate.