The Human Rights Watch Film Festival will be presented in London from 6 to 17 March, 2017, featuring 16 award-winning international documentary feature films that grapple with the challenges of defending human rights around the world today. Audiences will also have an opportunity to watch selected festival titles online thanks to the continuing partnership with MUBI. “In an era of global advances by far-right forces into the political mainstream, it’s more urgent than ever for the program to highlight individuals and groups exhibiting courageous resilience in challenging times”, said John Biaggi, creative director of the Human Rights Watch Film Festival. “Whether it’s Chinese migrant workers, a teenager from Hong Kong, internet sleuths, the indigenous Mayan population in Guatemala, elderly women revealing historic sexual exploitation, a female squash player from Pakistan or ‘the Egyptian Jon Stewart’, I am proud that more than half this year’s program celebrates collective action and revolutionary voices, and tells of activists’ triumph over oppression.”

 

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