Human Rights Movies

A 3-year-old girl and her family's long journey from a Greek refugee centre to Uppsala.

The bleached palette and home-movie aesthetics of Super 8 footage provide the image track for this testimonial about an illegal abortion in Mexico...

Breaking a centuries-old taboo, Ava stands as the first woman in Iran to master the male-dominated craft of carpentry. Within the grit and clamor of...

Long ago, Geamăna was a Romanian village in the Apuseni Mountains, home to about 1000 people. Today, only the church spire rises from the...

When an eight year old kid, Ningning, had a pink chick who fulfilled the love she has been longing for from her sister, she once again experienced...

Tell them I exist paints the portraits of Naâma Asfari, a Sahrawi jurist and pro-independence activist sentenced to 30 years detention in...

A film about the Tibetan Freedom Concert in San Francisco in 1996.

Part travelogue and part sensitive investigation, the movie tells the universal story of people who refuse to be erased, reminding us that defending...

A striking political activist and refugee from Paraguay escapes to Paris and falls in love with a rich law student changing their lives forever. The...

On the brink of social collapse, the city of Los Angeles is full of protests in favor of immigrants and against deportations under the administration...

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

A short documentary about the October 14 1979 March For Lesbian And Gay Rights in Washington D.C.

In the 1990s many people in Kurdistan were taken into custody and interrogated under torture; their killers disposed of the bodies by throwing them...

In America women can go to jail for their husbands’ crimes, men are allowed to marry ten-year-olds, and abortions in some states are illegal,...

Through personal stories, the documentary approaches the issues of gender identity and legal gender recognition in Greece. The three main characters...

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...

Behind his polite exterior lies a formidable leader with a ruthless character, ready to do anything to make China the world's leading power by the...

Deep beneath the surface in the Syrian province of Ghouta, a group of female doctors have established an underground field hospital. Under the...

A feature-length documentary that explores the immense changes that occurred for gays, lesbians and transgender people living in the Global South. In...