Line Up for the 2018 Human Rights Watch Film Festival
The Line Up information for the 2018 Human Rights Watch Film Festival hs been revealed.
This year's festival highlights women fighting back against personal and institutional abuse, and 12 of the 15 films are directed by women. This year's festival also probes government and corporate regulation of information with films like The Cleaners on data gatekeepers.
The opening night film On Her Shoulders about Yezidi Human Rights advocate and ISIS survivor Nadia Murad opens the festival on June 14, and the closing night film The Unafraid explores the experience of DACA students struggling to fight for their own education as they face a very uncertain future.
Films Featured:
A Thousand Girls Like Me
Filmmaker(s):
Sahra Mani
Year:
2018
New York
Angkar
Filmmaker(s):
Neary Adeline Hay
Year:
2018
New York
Anote's Ark
Filmmaker(s):
Matthieu Rytz
Year:
2018
New York
Charm City
Filmmaker(s):
Marilyn Ness
Year:
2018
New York
The Cleaners
Filmmaker(s):
Hans Block and Moritz Riesewieck
Year:
2018
New York
The Distant Barking of Dogs
Filmmaker(s):
Simon Lereng Wilmont
Year:
2017
New York
Facing the Dragon
Filmmaker(s):
Sedika Mojadidi
Year:
2018
New York
Naila and the Uprising
Filmmaker(s):
Julia Bacha
Year:
2017
London, New York
On Her Shoulders
Filmmaker(s):
Alexandria Bombach
Year:
2018
New York
The Silence of Others
Filmmaker(s):
Almudena Carracedo and Robert Bahar
Year:
2018
New York
TransMilitary
Filmmaker(s):
Gabriel Silverman, Co-director Fiona Dawson
Year:
2018
New York
The Unafraid
Filmmaker(s):
Anayansi Prado and Heather Courtney
Year:
2018
New York
Voices of the Sea
Filmmaker(s):
Kim Hopkins
Year:
2018
New York
What Will People Say
Filmmaker(s):
Iram Haq
Year:
2017
New York, Toronto
Women of the Venezuelan Chaos
Filmmaker(s):
Margarita Cadenas
Year:
2017
London, New York
