The Human Rights Watch Film Festival has gone online for its New York digital edition this year, which runs from June 11 to 20 and will feature a series of Q&As with the filmmakers.

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Belly Of The Beast
Belly Of The Beast
Documentary about the involuntary sterilisation of women in the US federal prison system.
I Am Samuel
I Am Samuel
An intimate portrait of a gay Kenyan man balancing pressures of family loyalty, love, and safety and questioning the concept of conflicting identities.
Reunited
Reunited
When Rana and Muhkles are forced to flee the war in Syria in a desperate search for stable and secure futures for their family, they are separated from their children. This film tells the family's story.
Coded Bias
Coded Bias
Considering the racial bias issues of AI and facial recognition.
Welcome To Chechnya
Welcome To Chechnya
This searing investigative work shadows a group of activists risking unimaginable peril to confront the ongoing anti-LGBTQ pogrom raging in the repressive and closed Russian republic.
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