Human Rights Movies

Since the Taliban returned to power in August 2021, Afghanistan has drawn growing international attention for its enormous reserves of rare earths...

Laleh is a true story of a young woman in post-revolution Iran, struggling against all odds to break through in one of the most male dominated sports...

In the Briançonnais mountains, in France, men and women on the roads of exile find the courage to cross the passes on foot, risking their...

Simbiso, a determined 17-year-old girl from a rural village, carries the weight of raising her younger siblings after losing their parents. When she...

Three hours outside of Addis Ababa, a bright 14-year-old girl is on her way home from school when men on horses swoop in and kidnap her. The brave...

During 2018's presidential election in Brazil, a young woman expects her mother for dinner. But a homophobic social media post makes her rethink this...

In a Swiss ski resort, Yasser works as a maintenance worker, safe from persecution by the Syrian regime, but far from his family stranded in Lebanon....

After her gender identity was denied in her homeland, Lee Li, a transgender asylum seeker, was forced to leave her country, family, and language to...

In 2014, during a trip, American Tim Bruns discovered cliffs in a small village five minutes north of Ramallah in Palestine and got to work equipping...

Wangala is a short documentary about women's resistance to the Moroccan occupation. Samira was born in the camps, in the middle of the desert, the...

In Russia, criticizing the war in Ukraine or Vladimir Putin’s regime has become a crime. Thousands of ordinary citizens are being arrested,...

In the Gaza refugee camp of Jerash, Palestinians face the critical issue of lacking identification documents. This situation undermines their rights...

This documentary reviews and summarises the development of homosexuality as an issue in the past three decades in China. We interviewed thirty...

Short film depicting the genuine challenges of stuttering, wrapped in a fictional office drama. By stuttering director Irmo Stijnberg.

It’s the last dictatorship of Europe, caught in a Soviet time-warp, where the secret police is still called the KGB and the president rules by...

What is possible when we have guaranteed money to meet our basic needs? No requirements. No stipulations. No paybacks. We look to the village of...

Brazil is one of the most dangerous countries for environmentalists. The rural community of Belisário holds the country's second largest...

Four souls trapped within Tel Aviv’s red-light district, entangled in sex trafficking and addiction, embark on spiritual journeys to transcend...

December 3, 1984. Bhopal, India. The biggest and deadliest chemical disaster of all time. Nearly twenty years later the ordeal isn't over, justice...