Human Rights Movies

Working at a nightclub in Chengdu, a transgender Chinese woman receives an unexpected visit from her cousin informing her that the mother she has...

For more than a century the great colonial powers put human beings, taken by force from their native lands, on show as entertainment, just like...

A Woman's Soul unveils the world of Rio de Janeiro's travestites - these mythological figures who have opt for sexual ambiguity. Caricatures of women...

They started their 1400 km journey to the capital of Europe on bicycles from Novi Sad, Serbia. This trip, from a divided country that has been in a...

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 system where citizens are always counted as "1", a child discovers "0"s.

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...

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

Tells the story of a young student and his spanish journalist friend who, after being victims of violence, they decide to act and organize a...

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 archival footage and testimonies from professors, students, staff, and graduates, the documentary traces the history of the National...

The story of the children who work 12-14 hour days in the fields without the protection of child labor laws. These children are not toiling in the...

An engineer, secretly living in her car while driving for a rideshare app in Berlin, picks up the man whose firm rejected her credentials seven years...

When a teenager from a political family in the Philippines is accused of a double murder, the country’s entire judicial system is put to the...

Chronicling one story of courage born out of the highly mediatized and controversial Prop 8 2008 election results in California. A Californian...

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

2003 documentary film produced by Oliver Stone for the HBO series America Undercover about the conflict in occupied Palestine. He speaks with Ehud...

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...

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