Human Rights Watch's International Film Festival has become a leading venue for distinguished fiction, documentary and animated films and videos with a distinctive human rights theme. The works we feature help to put a human face on threats to individual freedom and dignity, and celebrate the power of the human spirit and intellect to prevail. In selecting films for the festival, Human Rights Watch concentrates equally on artistic merit and human rights content. Each year, the festival's programming committee screens more than five hundred films and videos to create a program that represents a range of countries and issues. Though the festival rules out films that contain unacceptable inaccuracies of fact, it does not bar any films on the basis of a particular point of view.
