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Human Rights Watch Film Festival · 2024

Human Rights Watch Film Festival 2024

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10 films · 2 reviews

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After The Fire (Avant Que Les Flammes Ne S'éteignent)

In the aftermath of a crime, the victim's sister fights to obtain a fair trial and justice for her brother.

(Country: France; Year: 2023; Director: Mehdi Fikri; Writer: Mehdi Fikri; Stars: Sofiane Zermani, Camélia Jordana, Samir Guesmi, Makita Samba)

Coconut Head Generation

Documentary capturing the words and emotions of students at the University of Ibadan in southwestern Nigeria. The country’s first university, it was founded in 1948 and is still reckoning with its colonial British legacy.

(Country: France, Nigeria; Year: 2023; Director: Alain Kassanda; Writer: Alain Kassanda)

Land Of My Dreams

In 2019, protests broke out after the Indian government enacted the Citizenship Amendment Act, which overtly discriminates against Muslims. Nausheen Khan follows the women at the forefront of the resistance.

(Year: 2023; Director: Nausheen Khan)

Mediha

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Through it all, Mediha remains a marvel, finding the inner strength to be there for her brothers at the same time as steeling herself to try to identify her kidnapper.

Amber Wilkinson · 4 out of 5
Mediha is a member of the Yazidi ethnic and religious minority. She’s also the survivor of an ISIS-orchestrated genocide in 2014. Through video diaries, Mediha provides an intimate account of her grief and trauma.

(Country: Iraq; Year: 2023; Director: Hasan Oswald; Writer: Hasan Oswald; Stars: Mediha Ibrahim Alhamad)

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Power Alley (Levante)

A teenage volleyball champion finds her whole future in jeopardy after discovering that she's pregnant, and struggles to access an abortion.

(Country: Brazil, France, Ururguay; Year: 2023; Director: Lillah Halla)

A Revolution On Canvas

Art-heist-thriller-meets-portrait-documentary delves into the disappearance of over 100 "treasonous" paintings by the co-director's father, revolutionary Iranian artist Nickzad (Nicky) Nodjoumi.

(Country: US; Year: 2023; Director: Sara Nodjoumi, Till Schauder; Stars: Nahid Hagigat, Nicky Nodjoumi)

Summer Qamp

At a camp in rural Alberta, queer, non-binary and trans teens get to just be kids in a supportive space, surrounded by counsellors who can relate to their experience.

(Country: Canada; Year: 2023; Director: Jennifer Markowitz)

Tree Of Violence

Russian artist Victoria (Vika) Lomasko’s work has always been political. However, as tensions in Russia rise and her new project on patriarchal violence evolves, Vika’s art has become even more essential... and dangerous.

(Year: 2024; Director: Anna Moiseenko; Writer: Vincent Coen, Anna Moiseenko, Guillaume Vandenberghe; Stars: Victoria Lomasko)

We Are Guardians

As Indigenous Brazilian forest guardians in the Amazon fend off attacks from illegal loggers, miners, and exporters, we bear witness to what happens when Indigenous rights, land stewardship, and political corruption converge.

(Country: Brazil, US; Year: 2023; Director: Chelsea Greene, Rob Grobman, Edivan Guajajara)