Human Rights Movies

The film documents the conversion of young Greek Military Police (ESA) recruits into torturers and touches on the subject of the power of the...

Through a child's lens, The Honest Poet reveals a rarely seen side of Afghanistan, following 11-year-old Raheem on a journey through his country and...

A walking sign, fed up with his job, dreams to dance.

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...

A quest for freedom in the South China Sea. Victims of China’s “One-Child” policy, 100 orphans, all girls, are shepherded by a...

The 6 Guarani villages of Jaraguá, in São Paulo, fight for land rights, for human rights and for the preservation of nature. They...

Wangala is a short documentary about women's resistance to the Moroccan occupation. Samira was born in the camps, in the middle of the desert, the...

The story of Muhammad Iqbal, a turn of the century poet/philosopher from South Asia. Through Iqbal's work we open a dialog between the East and West,...

A young married woman collects the sweet memories of her romance. On closer inspection, she leaves bits of herself behind.

Pushed by the relentless pressure from his family, Naufal could only find a sense of safety and freedom through his painting. Overwhelmed by years of...

Maurice plays a passive role in his life. He hides a truth that tries to get out, but when he opens his mouth, only silence comes out. Fed up with...

Silent Verdict is a hard-hitting human rights documentary that exposes the injustice surrounding rape cases in Bangladesh. Through powerful...

Since the late 1990s, more people have died in war-torn Congo than in any conflict since World War II. In addition to the dead, hundreds of thousands...

La Chapelle neighbourhood, Paris. Hundreds of exiled people from East Africa survive on the streets, chased violently by the police, yet seeking to...

Pauline, Norah, Kristina and others wait for hours, sitting under a hut deep in the Bois de Vincennes. In front of the administrative detention...

A Hazara film director follows a gravestone maker, a water girl and a man who buried his limb, as their daily lives unfold in a graveyard.

Simbiso, a determined 17-year-old girl from a rural village, carries the weight of raising her younger siblings after losing their parents. When she...