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The films at this year’s Syracuse University Human Rights Film Festival range from touching autobiographies to tragic stories about destroyed cities

13/09/2023 - Other winners at the Bosnian documentary gathering included My Name Is Happy, Pure Unknown and Flotation

28/06/2023 - From 20-27 August, a total of 42 films will be competing for prizes at the international documentary film festival focusing on historical and cross-cultural events

14/06/2023 - A total of 17 projects are taking part in the event, and the first workshop is scheduled to be held from 17-21 June in La Rochelle, France

Powerful exposés of human rights abuses, war and deforestation are being screened in New York City May 31-June 8, and available nationwide via streaming June 5-11.

Oksana Karpovych attended Hot Docs Forum market event to pitch 'Intercepted' — her observational doc exploring the aftermath of the Russian invasion of Ukraine — which later won the CMF-Hot Docs Canadian Pitch Prize.

The NYC film festival will spotlight 10 documentaries about humanitarian challenges around the world

The Human Rights Watch Film Festival, now in its 34th year, will present a full edition of 10 groundbreaking new films nationwide in the United States, from May 31 to June 11, 2023.

Arrests of documentarians across the world proved the enduring political power of the medium.

Yelizar Nazarenko and Udo Samel in Rival Children are known for deconstructing the world with the pure, enigmatic and imaginative force of their gaze, which can never be wholly captured on camera due to a boundary-defying eagerness to understand and capture the world. And it’s a 9-year-old boy named Roman ( Yelizar Nazarenko) who is placed centre stage in Rival, a movie screening in Competition at the 2021 Bergamo Film Meeting which sees the child leave his rural village in the Ukraine, upo...