Human Rights Movies

Those who do not know the Sahara think there is only sand in the desert. But in the desert there are children who play and draw and make movies, and...

Laleh is a true story of a young woman in post-revolution Iran, struggling against all odds to break through in one of the most male dominated sports...

Svetlana has lost her son who was found dead while he was in the army. As she tries to shed light on the culture of violence and abuse in the...

Six animated shorts about discrimination and being different. “Daydream” talks about dealing with people with disability. It homes in on...

Under the pretext of fighting terrorism or crime, the major powers have embarked on a dangerous race for surveillance technologies. Facial...

The powerful and inspiring true story of the controversial human rights campaigner whose provocative acts of civil diso bedience rocked the British...

Take a trip back to Utah in the ’70s, when a new emerging culture clashed with tradition and institution. More than just disco and drugs, the...

I have been pretty satisfied with my life before I got on the bus. When I do in June 2011, my whole life turns upside down. I am just a regular...

Egypt, nicknamed "the mother of the world" by its people, is unrecognizable. Gigantic construction sites have sprung up in the desert at an...

Protesters diary from Gezi Park - Taksim Square, Istanbul. Occupy Gezi movement started when the government decided to build shopping mall in place...

Pauline, Norah, Kristina and others wait for hours, sitting under a hut deep in the Bois de Vincennes. In front of the administrative detention...

Born in Beijing tells the story of 'petitioners': citizens who feel themselves wrongfully treated by the local authorities and seek settlement in the...

Since the Taliban returned to power in August 2021, Afghanistan has drawn growing international attention for its enormous reserves of rare earths...

Archival film maestro Göran Hugo Olsson has assembled—from a vast catalogue of footage in the vaults of Sweden’s national television...

The story of four pioneering lesbian politicians and the battles they fought to pass a wide range of anti-discrimination laws.

A 3-year-old girl and her family's long journey from a Greek refugee centre to Uppsala.

A film about the Tibetan Freedom Concert in San Francisco in 1996.