Human Rights Movies

Overcrowded refugee camps, systematic human rights violations, missing future perspectives: While the Republic of Malta is closing itself off to...

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...

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...

Mother Teresa, recipient of the Nobel Peace Prize, is considered one of the greatest humanitarians of modern times. Her selfless commitment changed...

Two women live awaiting the return of their husbands from across the border, where they went seeking fortune. During their long wait, each one tries...

Somewhere in Albania, 2018. A couple decides to get married but clashes with tradition hard to die.

Such changes took place in Poland over a period of several months - from the end of 1988 to the end of January 1990? Michał Bielawski, through...

When Dr. Nasser Abufarha, a Palestinian American entrepreneur, returns to the occupied West Bank and finds the olive harvest in crisis, he leads a...

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

Artin, a young Iranian bodybuilder, and Jahan, a Kurdish man who recently discovered his love for painting, live in Kærshovedgård, a...

On the border of Surinam and French Guyana, indigenous Wayana territory is overrun by intruders. Illegal gold miners poison the river, missionaries...

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

Anthology film of six shorts by leading Korean directors. Park Chan-Wook, tackles racial prejudice and the economic exploitation of immigrant workers...

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,...

Scottish man Jimmy Anderson, released from jail in the middle east over unpaid debt disputes, reunites with his wife Lillian after over a year's...

Protesters diary from Gezi Park - Taksim Square, Istanbul. Occupy Gezi movement started when the government decided to build shopping mall in place...

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

How does a machine learn to read the world? Testimonies and screen recordings introduce the experience of online micro-workers from the Global South:...