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Human Rights Watch Film Festival

Person with camera filming police officers in riot gear.
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.