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14 Festival Internacional de Cine de Derechos Humanos

The purpose of the festival is to promote a forum for reflection and debate on the issue of human rights in the world, through artistic representation contained in the performance of films and videos from independent producers.

Addis International Film Festival

The Addis International Film Festival is held annually in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia. It is the largest independent documentary cinema festival in Africa. AIFF also supports the development of emerging talent, providing educational and networking opportunities, outreach training schemes and a structured internship and volunteer programs all year.

Amnesty International Travelling Film Festival

The Amnesty International Film Festival believes in the power of film to tell important stories about one of the most pressing issues of our time - human rights. For that reason we present film events every year in more than 40 communities across Canada.

Bahrain Human Rights International Film Festival

In May 2008 and 2009 the first human rights international film festival in the Middle East took place in Bahrain: the Bahrain Human Rights International Film Festival (BHRIFF). The festival celebrates both Labour Day on May 1st and the International Day for Press Freedom on May 3rd.

Ciné Droit Libre

Ciné Droit Libre is a film festival committed to the cause of human rights and freedom of expression. Ciné Droit Libre’s goal is to provide a platform for filmmakers and journalists around the world, especially for those whose works (films on human rights and freedom of the press) are censored or have broadcast difficulties.

Docudays Ua Human Rights International Documentary Film Festival

The International Human Rights Documentary Film Festival Docudays UA is held annually in the last week of March in Kyiv. The main purpose of the Festival is raising the level of Ukrainian documentary, promotion of an open dialogue on moral problems in society, human rights, understanding of human dignity as the supreme value, creating the foundation for democratic future of the country.

Document International Human Rights Documentary Film Festival

Document is the only dedicated international human rights documentary film festival in Scotland. Held annually in October, we are a grassroots initiative that aims to use film as an advocacy tool to raise the profile and promote debate of human rights and social issues across the globe.

Festival de Cine y Derechos Humanos Donostia

The Festival of Human Rights Film is an initiative of the San Sebastian, Space for the Culture of Peace project. The aim is to promote greater awareness, to encourage debate and to provide greater information to citizens about human rights, by promoting, through the cinema and other cultural and artistic expressions, the values of solidarity, respect for life, peace, freedom and social justice.

Festival Del Cinema Dei Diritti Umani Di Napoli

The Naples Human Rights Film Festival was born in 2008 as an initiative of the Association ""Cinema e Diritti"" with the aim of establishing a reference point for Human Rights debate in Southern Europe opening up a dialogue among civil societies from the Middle East to North Africa and to Northern Europe and America.

Festival des Libertés

The festival of Liberties has become progressively established in the Brussels film landscape through its programme of international, unscreened documentary films complemented by meetings with directors. Political and artistic, cross-cultural and interactive, festive and subversive, the festival mobilizes all the forms of expression to bear witness to the situation of rights and freedom in the world.

Festival du Film et Forum International sur les Droits Humains

An International Forum on Human Rights Facing the United Nations. The festival, which faces the UN Human Rights Council, is an independent and outspoken Platform that informs, mobilizes and denounces, without any form of complacency, human rights violations wherever they occur.

Festival internacional de cine de los derechos humanos “el séptimo ojo es tuyo”

The International Film Festival Human Rights “The Seventh Eye is Yours” (FESTIMO) is organized by PUKAÑAWI, which means red eye in the Quecha language. This organization was founded as the center of cultural management in 2004 and has been organizing the festival ever since.

Festival International du Film des Droits de l'Homme de Paris

The Paris Human Rights International Film Festival was created on the understanding of two basic premises. Cinema and especially documentary cinema is the most efficient tool to raise awareness on Human Rights and defending Human Rights across the world and the roots of Human Rights in France.

Free Zone Film Festival

FREE ZONE film festival is meant to foster a debate on topical issues in the world today. The festival showcases films from around the world that address human rights and related issues, bringing together celebrated filmmakers, local experts, and local and international audiences.

Human Rights Arts and Film Festival

The Human Rights Arts and Film Festival (HRAFF) is Australia’s premier cultural event devoted exclusively to the exploration of human rights issues through art and film. At the heart of HRAFF’s mission is awareness raising, both of the relevance of human rights discourse to everyday life in Australia and of human rights challenges facing communities around the world.

Human Rights Film Festival

The Human Rights film festival was launched in 2005 by the New Zealand Human Rights Network. Through 2005 and 2006, many appropriately themed films such as Mothers crossing, Mercy, Hamburg cell, 1000 women and a dream and Breaking bows and arrows were featured.

Human Rights Film Festival Ad Hoc: Inconvenient Films

Human Rights film festival “Ad Hoc: Inconvenient Films” is an annual documentary film festival established in 2007. The mission of this non-profit initiative is to raise awareness on human rights issues around the world and to connect them to those that are present in Lithuania.

Human Rights Nights

Human Rights Nights Film and Arts Festival is an international festival dedicated to human rights issues, which takes place in Bologna, Italy since 2001. Human Rights Nights is an opportunity to hear marginalized voices and view alternative representations through cinematographic narratives of the world, which together demonstrate and express the complexity of the question of human rights.

Human Rights Watch Film Festival - London

Human Rights Watch is one of the world’s leading independent organizations dedicated to defending and protecting human rights. Through our Human Rights Watch Film Festival we bear witness to human rights violations and create a forum for courageous individuals on both sides of the lens to empower audiences with the knowledge that personal commitment can make a difference.

Human Rights Watch Film Festival - New York

Human Rights Watch is one of the world’s leading independent organizations dedicated to defending and protecting human rights. Through our Human Rights Watch Film Festival we bear witness to human rights violations and create a forum for courageous individuals on both sides of the lens to empower audiences with the knowledge that personal commitment can make a difference.

International Film Festival WATCH DOCS Human Rights in Film

The International Film Festival WATCH DOCS. Human Rights in Film has been held annually in Warsaw in December since 2001. It combines high-class cinema, mainly documentaries, with public debate.

Montreal Human Rights Film Festival

Since its creation in 2006, the Montreal Human Rights Film Festival (MHRFF) has become one of the major cultural manifestations addressing the topic of human rights violations here and elsewhere in the world.

Movies that Matter Festival

Movies that Matter screens and promotes films that draws our attention to human rights and situations in which these are at stake. The foundation's peak activity is the annual Movies that Matter Festival, taking place at the end of March in The Hague, city of Peace and Justice.

Nuremberg International Human Rights Film Festival

NIHRFF is Germany’s oldest and biggest human rights film festival. With its art house cinema background, it is the leading forum for outstanding feature films, documentaries and animated productions, which have human rights as their main focus.

One World – International Human Rights Documentary Film Festival

One World, the largest human rights film festival in the world, screens over 100 documentary films annually and attracts an audience of over 100,000. In addition to Prague, One World program travels to over 30 towns in the Czech Republic. Since 2001, One World has been held under the auspices of the former president Václav Havel.

Papua New Guinea Human Rights Film Festival

Persistence Resistance

A festival of contemporary political films at the India International Centre, New Delhi

Pravo Ljudski Film Festival

Pravo Ljudski has established itself as a specific and recognizable public space to engender social action and civic activism by promoting socially engaged art, cinema, non-formal education and cross-cultural dialogue.

Seoul Human Rights Film Festival

Since 1996 Seoul Human Rights Film Festival (SHRFF) aims to raise public awareness for human rights issues through film. It is a highly anticipated event that screens excellent films from all over the world, presenting human rights issues in diverse ways.

This Human World

This human world was created in 2008 for the 60 jubilee of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights. It is the first and only festival of this kind created in Austria. The festival takes place in the beginning of December, with the 10th of December being Human Rights Day.

Tri Continental Film Festival

The Tri Continental Film Festival (TCFF) is an arts and cultural initiative that showcases films from or concerned with the Americas, Africa, Asia and Australasia. Our selection seeks to highlight issues of democratization and human rights, while also raising awareness around gender equality, socio-economic justice, racism and reconciliation.

UNHCR Refugee Film Festival

Everyday, thousands of people run from war, persecution and terror. Even 1 is too many. The UNHCR Representation in Japan proudly presents the 6th edition of the UNHCR Refugee Film Festival. 

Vermont International Film Festival

The Vermont International Film Festival (VTIFF) is Vermont’s longest running film festival and this year marks its 26th anniversary. The festival is best known for featuring groundbreaking and independent films from around the world, with a special focus on films that, not only entertain, but also seek to broaden our views of the world.

Verzio International Human Rights Documentary Film Festival

The only human rights documentary film festival in Hungary, Verzio, has been organized by Verzio Film Foundation and OSA since 2004. Its program addresses a wide range of issues, including: political oppression, civil conflicts, terrorism, minorities, refugees, women's rights, trafficking, and children's rights.