Human Rights Movies

A young woman born in a democracy recovers the story of two American citizens who were detained during the last civic-military dictatorship in...

Children play amidst cycles of thunder and violence.

Linda and Kenya narrate their testimony about being women and living with HIV in a time where stigma, negligence and androcentricity force them to...

A short 1994 documentary that highlights the lives and experiences of a few LGBTQ+ residents of the Palouse. Filmed and narrated by Jeff Olson....

The creative process of the first crochet fashion collection fully developed by male prisoners in Brazil and presented at the country's main fashion...

Farewell Ferris Wheel explores how the U.S. Carnival industry fights to keep itself alive by legally employing Mexican migrant workers with the...

In India, young people must marry someone approved by the family. Those who fall in love with someone else risk being killed for dishonour. But now...

A walking sign, fed up with his job, dreams to dance.

After opening a chest of memories, a girl narrates events from chilean dictatorship and the murder of Nadia Fuentes Concha through the figure of...

Through a child's lens, The Honest Poet reveals a rarely seen side of Afghanistan, following 11-year-old Raheem on a journey through his country and...

An artist's sculpture is burnt down, a protester is charged with a criminal case, and a democracy movement is violently attacked. In the United...

The story of two homeless brothers and their ambitious dreams of becoming race car drivers. Amidst a harsh reality where they are invisible to...

In the summer of 2011, Nadir Bouhmouch, a Moroccan student studying abroad in California returns to his home country and finds it in a state of...

Vena, a Catholic, lives in the Muslim-majority region Aceh. Vena wears veil in her daily life and befriends many Muslim friends. Nevertheless, how...

When Sumoud, a Palestinian refugee girl from Gaza, arrives in the US, Yasmeen, a Palestinian-American girl, is reluctant to meet her and doubts...

In April 2015, two shipwrecks in the central Mediterranean resulted in over a thousand deaths. The first, on 12 April, occurred when an overcrowded...

Do you remember the memories of yesterday?

An historical documentary that rereads the recent death of Jorge Videla, bloodthirsty dictator of Argentina in the 70’s, telling the...