Human Rights Movies

Ilyas and Brahim work at a television repair shop. When the end of the day arrives, his boss sends them to bring a television to a costumer on the oth...

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 societ...

Six poems written by six young prisoners animated to tell their stories, thoughts, fears and hopes.

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 t...

Alternating interview segments, shots of Martinique landscapes and scenes from Aimé Césaire's play La Tragédie du roi Christophe (1963),Sarah Maldoro...

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

Chasing Asylum tells the story of Australia's cruel, inhumane treatment of asylum seekers and refugees, examining the human, political, financial and...

A documentary that reveals the underbelly of the global aid and investment industry. It's a complex web of interests that span the earth from powerful...

Those who do not know the Sahara think there is only sand in the desert. But in the desert there are children who play and draw and make movies, and w...

In a candid and unflinching portrait of Palestinian prisoners, Shimon Dotan takes viewers inside the highest security prisons in Israel where thousand...

War and Justice is the first and only true-life documentary about the International Criminal Court (ICC),thanks to unprecedented access to Ben Ferenc...

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 States...

Collective film for the 60th anniversary of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights, with 30 directors each helming a segment about one of the 30 ar...

This documentary follows the life of Seven children who are working under extreme conditions at India's busiest cremation ground, Manikarnika in Banar...

The story of four pioneering lesbian politicians and the battles they fought to pass a wide range of anti-discrimination laws.

The Diary of a Sky unfolds an atmospheric symphony of violence over Beirut, revealing the haunting fusion of incessant Israeli military flights and th...

Documentary about the Holy Angels Residential School in Alberta, where hundreds of First Nations children were imprisoned.

Over the course of a year, film follows Vancouver Pride Society president Ken Coolen to various international Pride events, including Poland, Hungary,...