Human Rights Watch Film Festival

Beautifully observed, Sadaf Foroughi's feature début explores the way that, even in societies explicitly controlled by men, it's often women who enforce social rules and seek to control one another's behaviour.

The film follows Nadia at a time when support for her cause is growing, though she still has very little in the way of personal support.

This quiet, documentary takes the viewer on an interesting, intriguing journey, ending on a question mark.

The film cuts every so often to one of the few monuments honouring the victims of Franco’s regime; faceless statues pierced with bullet holes on a deserted mountain side. The Silence Of Others puts real faces to these figures.

Not just an intimate excavation of Cambodian history, but a film about the scarred puzzles of family histories, becoming an exploration of how memories are often not passed down from one generation to the next like heirlooms, but locked away, never to be

Iram Haq's second feature has its own dynamic and a powerful authenticity that avoids ex-colonial prejudice.

Kelly’s film covers a lot of ground, though maybe too much.

Brockhaus and Wolff include extensive interviews with Hilal, reflecting on the competition, also following her and her daughters as they prepare to attend a family wedding, which gives a broader snapshot of the social fabric of their homeland

Sobel doesn't invite us to pity these men but rather to listen to what they have to say.