Human Rights Watch Film Festival

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Human Rights Watch Film Festival

A new film shows why democracy and the internet are uneasy bedfellows

by Sarah Jilani

Black Code follows “cyber stewards” from Toronto’s The Citizen Lab.
A woman holding a sign with Chinese text, standing on a beach with waves in the background.
Festivals

Hooligan Sparrow – first look review

by Chris Barsanti

The opening night film of this year’s Human Rights Watch Film Festival shows China on a collision course with chaos.
Faces of two young women, their skin tones warm, expressions pensive.
Festivals

Why should we engage with films about suffering?

by Sophie Monks Kaufman

A new film, PS Jerusalem, asks some difficult questions about the way we consume stories of socially marginalised people.

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