Human Rights Movies

Ayu, a customer service employee, had to pay her mother's rent arrears in the village but her salary was paid late. When she confronted his boss...

220 years after its "birth", 40 years after its theft, 22 years after its reappearance and 18 years after its second disappearance, two filmmakers...

Since the late 1990s, more people have died in war-torn Congo than in any conflict since World War II. In addition to the dead, hundreds of thousands...

Pikilina is a Dominican-born woman of Haitian descent. Racial and political violence erupts when the country of her birth, the Dominican Republic,...

A partnership between the Government of Mali and an American agricultural investor may see 200-square kilometers of Malian land transformed into a...

A documentary film depicting five intimate portraits of migrants who fled their country of origin to seek refuge in France and find a space of...

Greed, power, innocence, tragedy. Following the path of a money bill, since its printing until its final destination, the audience is introduced to...

Six poems written by six young prisoners animated to tell their stories, thoughts, fears and hopes.

The story of two youngster girls who became the victims of female genital mutilation.

There are countless stories of Cubans reaching their dream destination of Florida as boat refugees. A lesser known route to the United States starts...

Behind his polite exterior lies a formidable leader with a ruthless character, ready to do anything to make China the world's leading power by the...

An historical documentary that rereads the recent death of Jorge Videla, bloodthirsty dictator of Argentina in the 70’s, telling the...

Four female friends from Egypt with opposing religious, social, and political views listen to one another's perspectives and argue openly, without...

The documentary film "Mr. Dial Has Something to Say" investigates the problem of classism and racism in the elite American art world. By following...

Carmela lives with her husband and eight children near the Ecuadorian-Colombian border. This 56-year-old Afro-Ecuadorian woman opened her home to...