Amsterdam Human Rights Award
The Amsterdam Human Rights Award will be presented by the city of Amsterdam on Tuesday, November 20 to a documentary film that portrays the theme of human rights with great cinematographic force. The winning film will be chosen by three international jurors. This year ten films compete for the Amsterdam Human Rights Award.
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Chaos
Sara Fattahi – 2018
What does war do to your mind? Three Syrian women make us their companions in grief and inner disengagement. Winner of a Golden Leopard at Locarno.
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Dead Souls
Wang Bing – 2018
An epic documentary about a little-known chapter of Chinese history: the reeducation camps of the 1950s in the Gobi Desert.
Flavours of Iraq
Leonard Cohen – 2018
Twenty powerful animated films appeal to the senses in a rich portrayal of the country and familiy of an Iraqi-French journalist.
Island of the Hungry Ghosts
Gabrielle Brady – 2018
A crab migration, a ritual for wandering ghosts, and a heavily guarded Australian detention center are brought together in a mesmerizing contemplation of migration.
Police Killing
Natasha Neri, Lula Carvalho – 2018
Disturbing images combine with heartrending testimony in an indictment of the deadly abuse of power by police officers in Rio de Janeiro.
The Privacy of Wounds
Dalia Kury – 2018
In a reconstructed prison cell, three Syrian former political prisoners reveal their painful memories of shared experiences.
Reason
Anand Patwardhan – 2018
A broad-ranging examination of Indian society, where secular rationalists are hunted down as they attempt to stem the rising tide of religious and nationalist fundamentalism.
Srbenka
Nebojsa Slijepcevic – 2018
The Yugoslav Wars echo on in Croatia, behind the scenes of a controversial play telling the true story of an ethnically-motivated murder.
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Survivors
Arthur Pratt – 2018
A collective in Sierra Leone filmed during the 2014 Ebola crisis, in which thousands of people died, and emergency workers risked their lives to help the people of their country.
A Thousand Girls Like Me
Sahra Mani – 2018
This disturbing and inspiring story of Khatera, a young Afghan woman who brings charges against her father after he sexually abused her for many years.