Looking at this yearâs Human Rights Watch Film Festival
By Peter Keough Globe Correspondent,Updated May 13, 2021, 10:00 a.m.
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A scene from In the Same Breath. Human Rights Watch Film Festival
If the past is any indication, there will likely never be a shortage of iniquities and hardships to be covered in the
Human Rights Watch Film Festival (May 19-27). This yearâs topics include the earliest days of the COVID-19 pandemic, in Wuhan, and Chinaâs politicization of the virus; and the toxic appeal of ISIS and what happened to teenage girls it lured from middle-class homes to join the jihad in Syria.