The 19th annual Human Rights Watch Canada Film Festival (HRWFF), in its third year of partnership with Hot Docs, will present five films about key issues of the day to audiences in Toronto and, for the second time, digitally across Canada. The film festival is committed to amplifying courageous voices from around the world on both sides of the lens.
Photo: A still from the film A La Calle , Reuters photo by Jorge Silva
Human Rights Watch Film Festival: Latin American Films on the Line-Up By George Newton | 16 March, 2021
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Human Rights Watch Film Festival, which for the past 30 years has screened films about human rights abuses throughout the world, will be available for streaming in the UK and Germany from the 18
th March, and New York in May 2021. Human Rights Watch is an NGO based in New York, and for more than 40 years has defended people at risk of abuse by ‘investigating abuses scrupulously, exposing the facts widely, and relentlessly pressing those in power for change that respects rights.’