Human Rights Movies

An upcoming hand-drawn animated film about a village boy who works in a brick kiln to support his family after his father's death.

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

Sons and daughters of Argentinian exiles during the last dictatorship tell their story.

For more than forty years, Belela Herrera has dedicated her life to saving that of others. The politically persecuted, those displaced by civil wars,...

Going to the doctor to make a diagnosis or to have a treatment is a common thing in the outside world. But for every prisoner it is a very difficult...

Survivor Abduweli flees a Chinese Uyghur internment camp to Norway. Now, heading to Germany to confront a past torturer, his daughter’s panic...

Carmela lives with her husband and eight children near the Ecuadorian-Colombian border. This 56-year-old Afro-Ecuadorian woman opened her home to...

Newly employed in an emergency shelter for people experiencing homelessness, Geneviève is shaken to meet a young woman there whom she believed...

EGWA is an intense Adventure Drama-with social/environmental themes. The story revolves around a tribe whose sacred tree is targeted by a ruthless...

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...

An exodus of migrants settled in Tijuana and they hope to cross each day regardless of the consequences, the children tell us what they see, want and...

A girl from St. Petersburg walks around protest-ridden Moscow, talking to riot police and believing that sooner or later they will go over to the...

Ji-eun, a part-timer at a convenience store, will be able to receive her much-awaited severance pay tomorrow.

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...

Four female friends from Egypt with opposing religious, social, and political views listen to one another's perspectives and argue openly, without...

A young nun's encounter with the underworld of child labor in Sumba restores her sense of purpose in life.

"letters to eleanore" is a poignant feature-length documentary that explores the intertwined journeys of two remarkable girls, Keith from Canto...

X-Mission explores the logic of the refugee camp as one of the oldest extra-territorial zones. Taking the Palestinian refugee camp as a case in...