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Human Rights Watch Film Festival

11 June – 20 June 2020

The Human Rights Watch Film Festival has gone online for its New York digital edition this year, which runs from June 11 to 20 and will feature a series of Q&As with the filmmakers.

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  • Belly Of The Beast
    Review preview for Belly Of The Beast

    Thorough and incisive, this is a documentary which restrains its anger to focus on the evidence.

    Jennie Kermode · 4 out of 5
    Documentary about the involuntary sterilisation of women in the US federal prison system.
  • I Am Samuel
    Review preview for I Am Samuel

    Although the film has a heartfelt sweep, it is so tightly focused that questions go unanswered.

    Amber Wilkinson · 3 out of 5
    An intimate portrait of a gay Kenyan man balancing pressures of family loyalty, love, and safety and questioning the concept of conflicting identities.
  • Reunited
    Review preview for Reunited

    Jargil's film isn't just an indictment of immigration system webs that forget real human lives are caught within them, it is also an exploration of what happens to families under these conditions.

    Amber Wilkinson · 4 out of 5
    When Rana and Muhkles are forced to flee the war in Syria in a desperate search for stable and secure futures for their family, they are separated from their children. This film tells the family's story.
  • Coded Bias
    Review preview for Coded Bias

    The real issue set out in Coded Bias.. is that we are stumbling headlong into a world in which major life-changing decisions for every one of us are taken by impersonal unrelenting computer algorithms.

    Jane Fae · 4 out of 5
    Considering the racial bias issues of AI and facial recognition.
  • Welcome To Chechnya
    Review preview for Welcome To Chechnya

    By pushing us into the day-to-day stress of the organisation, France gives a palpable sense of the desperation many of those fleeing feel.

    Amber Wilkinson · 4.5 out of 5
    This searing investigative work shadows a group of activists risking unimaginable peril to confront the ongoing anti-LGBTQ pogrom raging in the repressive and closed Russian republic.