Human Rights Movies

A documentary exploring sexism and patriarchy in Kosova.

The destiny of women is irrevocably linked to blood. Between tradition and modernity, the female body has been marketed, honored, and mutilated.

The creative process of the first crochet fashion collection fully developed by male prisoners in Brazil and presented at the country's main fashion...

The salmon is a species known to go in counter-current through the rivers to lay their eggs, and then die. A short experimental documentary about...

A young Colombian woman confronts her father and best friend, who resist her taking to the streets to protest for fear of the repression and violence...

Crayons and Paper follows Dr. Jerry Ehrlich, a New Jersey pediatrician who worked with Doctors Without Borders in war zones including Sri Lanka,...

Marcela, Anabella and Estrella are three trans women who have defied the lifespan expected for a trans person. Through their recollections, one...

In late 1980, the bodies of four American women were exhumed from a crude grave in El Salvador. The women - Ita Ford and Maura Clarke, nuns of the...

a story of lives, friendship, griefs and dreams of six young men and women who are stateless.’ They hope that everyone will be treated equally...

A Street Named Liberty is a symbolic, experimental narrative that uses miniatures to reveal the disappearance of justice and the normalization of ...

An undercover documentary film produced and directed by British filmmaker Dominic Brown, about the struggle of the indigenous Sahrawi people of...

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

Shot by members of the Revolutionary Association of the Women of Afghanistan, using both a regular and WITNESS hidden camera, Rise documents the...

A short 1994 documentary that highlights the lives and experiences of a few LGBTQ+ residents of the Palouse. Filmed and narrated by Jeff Olson....

The story puts İlhan Çomak at the center, even though he is not physically present in the film. It focuses on the 21 years that...

Memories of a Dreamer is a first person account of the hardship suffered by a political prisoner from Chile's 1973 cruel dictatorship. Felix Mora...

Although experiencing a lifelong battle with pain and trauma, Jerod Draper lived an average, normal life in Southern Indiana. During high school,...

This documentary offers a women’s picture of the Egyptian revolution. We are in Egypt, between Cairo and Ismailia, two revolutionary cities....