Barbican Presents: Human Rights Watch Film Festival
Human Rights Watch proudly presents the 26th edition of the Human Rights Watch Film Festival from 17-25 March, in partnership with Barbican Cinema.
Ten compelling new films from around the world are presented at this year’s festival, including three screenings at the Barbican in London with live, digital Q&A’s — Opening Night, Centrepiece, and Closing Night. The festival will stream a full digital edition across the UK and Ireland, with pre recorded in-depth talks with filmmakers, film participants, activists, and Human Rights Watch advocates.
The filmmakers at this year’s festival foreground issues around freedom of choice, cultural expression, and family trauma, showing individuals and communities standing in solidarity to create change and amplify marginalised voices. Even during the global pandemic, communities are coming together and making a difference —from journalists in Myanmar, Latinx community members in Texas, and young girls in Bangladesh, to judges in Poland and asylum seekers in the UK.
Book your tickets here:
Silence Heard Loud – Poland / 2022 / Anna Konik / 71m
Bangla Surf Girls – Canada / Elizabeth D. Costa / 2021 / 86m
Boycott – U.S.A. / Julia Bacha / 2021 / 70m
Daughter of a Lost Bird – U.S.A. / Brooke Pepion Swaney / 2021 / 66m
Eternal Spring (長春) – Canada / Jason Loftus / 2022 / 86m
Judges Under Pressure – Poland / Kacper Lisowski / 2021 / 87m
Myanmar Diaries – Netherlands, Myanmar, Norway / The Myanmar Film Collective / 2022 / 70m
On The Divide – U.S.A. / Maya Cueva & Leah Galant / 2021 / 79m
Tacheles – The Heart of the Matter – Germany / Jana Matthes & Andrea Schramm / 2020 / 104m
You Resemble Me – France, Egypt, U.S.A. / Dina Amer / 2021 / 90m
