Founded in 1988 to advance public education on human rights, this festival has gone from strength to strength, exposing issues through documentaries, animation, shorts, etc. The films are chosen equally for their artistic merit and the human rights content.A bfi touring programme.
Previously in this Festival
Cinema
A Long Night’s Journey Into Day
This powerful Oscar nominated documentary follows four stories brought to South Africa's Truth and Reconciliation Commission
Cinema
The Diplomat
Portrait of East Timorese Independence Leader and Nobel Prize Recipient Jose Ramos.
Cinema
Borders + Nazareth 2000
Revealing portrait of families torn apart by the religious differences
Cinema
Good Kurds, Bad Kurds:No Friends but the Mountains
A freelance journalist investigates the dichotomy between two different groups of Kurds - those in Iraq and those in Turkey
Cinema
Jung: In the Land of the Mujahheddin
A surgeon and a war correspondent join forces to set up a hospital to deal with the consequences of warfare in Afghanistan