Human Rights Watch Film Festival 2023
I Didn’t See You There I Didn’t See You There
I Didn’t See You There and Delikado
Category: Woman (Country: Canada; Year: 2022; Director: Phyllis Ellis)
When the International Amateur Athletics Federation (now World Athletics) ruled that targeted women with naturally high androgen levels must medically alter their bodies in order to compete, a generation of athletes have their lives and careers thrown into limbo.
Delikado (Country: Philippines, Hong Kong, Australia, USA, UK; Year: 2022; Director: Karl Malakunas)
Bobby, Tata and Nieves – a charismatic lawyer, a former illegal logger and a fearless politician – are three magnetic leaders fighting to stop corporations and governments seeking to plunder increasingly valuable natural resources from the island of Palawan.
If The Streets Were On Fire (Country: UK; Year: 2022; Director: Alice Russell)
Documentary about BikeStormz, which offers kids in London an opportunity to express themselves through cycling.
I Didn’t See You There (Country: US; Year: 2022; Director: Reid Davenport; Writer: Reid Davenport; Stars: Reid Davenport)
Spurred by the spectacle of a circus tent that goes up outside his Oakland apartment, a disabled filmmaker launches into a meditative journey exploring the history of freakdom, vision, and (in)visibility.
Koromousso, Big Sister (Country: Canada; Year: 2023; Director: Habibata Ouarme, Jim Donovan)
Personal stories and deep moments of support in a small community of women from West Africa, who are confronting social norms and embracing the inherent power in pleasure and love for their own bodies.
Seven Winters In Tehran Seven Winters In Tehran
Seven Winters In Tehran and If The Streets Were On Fire
No U-Turn (Country: France, Nigeria, South Africa, Germany; Year: 2022; Director: Ike Nnaebue)
As a young man, celebrated Nigerian director Ike Nnaebue left Nigeria taking the route via Benin, Mali, and Mauritania to Morocco where he was forced to turn back, unable to reach Europe. In his first documentary, No U-Turn, he retraces the life-changing journey he made over 20 years ago.
Seven Winters In Tehran (Sieben Winter in Teheran) (Country: Germany, France; Year: 2023; Director: Steffi Niederzoll)
In 2007, Reyhaneh Jabbari, 19, is sentenced to death in Iran for the murder of a man who tried to rape her. The efforts her family and supporters undertake open a window into the mass oppression and silencing of women in the country and the risks it takes to support them.
Silent Love (Country: Poland; Year: 2022; Director: Marek Kozakiewicz)
A documentary following a woman who moves back home to Poland to care for her brother whilst hiding her same sex relationship from the authorities.
Theatre Of Violence (Country: Denmark; Year: 2023; Director: Lukasz Konopa, Emil Langballe)
Dominic Ongwen is the first former child soldier prosecuted by the International Criminal Court (ICC). Theatre of Violence follows Ongwen’s lawyer and his team as they investigate, build a defence strategy, and try to answer the central question: how do we define “justice” when the perpetrator is also a victim?
When Spring Came To Bucha (Country: Germany, Ukraine; Year: 2022; Director: Mila Teshaieva, Marcus Lenz)
A small community in Ukraine continues with life amid trauma and loss after Russian withdrawl, while war rages on close by.
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