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Festival Calender
Below you can find an overview of upcoming festivals that are part of the Human Rights Film Network.
May 21 2025 - May 25 2025
Addis Ababa, Ethiopia
Addis International Film Festival (AIFF) is an annual film festival created by Initiative Africa (IA) in 2007 and held in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia. The festival seeks to use the power of film to support...
May 29 2025 - June 7 2025
Valencia, Spain
Humans Fest is, in terms of audience, the most important human rights film festival in Spain and the largest audience film festival in its region. Its main event takes place every year in Valencia but...
June 6 2025 - June 13 2025
Kiev, Ukraine
Docudays UA is the only international human rights documentary film festival in Ukraine. It is a part of the international Human Rights Film Network.
After the end of the festival, Docudays UA...
June 10 2025 - June 17 2025
Montevideo, Uruguay
The festival seeks to provide to the audience a high quality programme of films about Human Rights issues. At the same time, Tenemos Que Ver has a strong commitment with educational activities, such...
June 11 2025 - June 18 2025
Buenos Aires, Argentina
The International Film Festival on Human Rights is one of the most important events on human rights cinema, is founding member of the Human Rights Film Network and Red de Cine Social y Derechos...
June 27 2025 - June 30 2025
Beirut, Lebanon
Karama Beirut Human Rights Film Festival (KBHRFF), which is the first human rights festival in Lebanon, is an interactive, local platform where the general public can interact directly with civil...
September 10 2025 - September 13 2025
Abidjan, Côte d’Ivoire
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...
September 15 2025 - September 20 2025
Tirana, Albania
The International Human Rights Film Festival in Albania (IHRFFA) is an annual human rights film festival founded by the Academy of Film and Multimedia Marubi in 2006, in collaboration with several...
October 7 2025 - October 26 2025
Vilnius, Lithuania
Human Rights Film Festival “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...
October 15 2025 - October 23 2025
Bergen, Norway
BIFF is the largest film festival in Norway, both in admissions and number of films presented, with more than 61.000 admissions in 2019. Each year we present more than 150 feature length films, around...
October 15 2025 - October 22 2025
Nuremberg, Germany
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...
October 17 2025 - October 26 2025
Manresa, Spain
The International Social Film Festival of Catalonia in 7 points:
19 editions growing to become a reference as a major film festival in Bages, while representing the social causes of the region...
October 17 2025 - October 26 2025
Vermont, United States
The Vermont International Film Festival (VTIFF) is Vermont’s longest running film festival.
The festival is best known for featuring groundbreaking and independent films from around the world, with a...
October 17 2025 - October 26 2025
Bratislava, Slovakia
International festival of documentary films One World Slovakia, taking place in the beginning of November is an inclusive hybrid (online/onsite) film event, progressive and innovative platform for the...
November 6 2025 - November 12 2025
Dresden, Germany
MOVE IT! is a small film festival located in Dresden, Germany. It is focused on human rights themes with a special emphasis on women's and children's rights, due to the thematic focus of it’s...
November 12 2025 - November 30 2025
Budapest, Hungary
Verzió International Human Rights Documentary Film Festival, the largest documentary film festival in Hungary, has been organized on an annual basis since 2004. It aims to promote open society...
November 25 2025 - November 29 2025
Tunis, Tunisia
The Human Screen Festival is an international film festival dedicated to human rights, held annually in Tunisia.
The festival showcases films that explore and promote human rights, social justice, and...
December 5 2025 - December 14 2025
Warsaw, Poland
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. It is...
December 10 2025 - December 20 2025
Valparaíso, Chile
March 2 2026 - March 8 2026
Oslo, Norway
HUMAN International Documentary Film Festival is Oslo’s largest documentary film festival and a significant forum in the Norwegian capital’s cultural, academic and organizational life, which engages...
March 6 2026 - March 15 2026
Geneva, Switzerland
FIFDH – International Film Festival and Forum on Human Rights Geneva – invites filmmakers, activists, NGOs, professors, diplomats, artists, activists, journalists and the general public to join...
March 20 2026 - March 28 2026
The Hague, Netherlands
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...