The UK edition of the 2020 Human Rights Watch Film Festival is making a digital return for two weeks, from 22 May to 5 June, following the festival’s early closure in March due to COVID-19 health crisis.
The film festival, generously supported by players of People’s Postcode Lottery, will stream a collection of nine international titles on Curzon Home Cinema, co-presented with partners Barbican, Curzon and Regent Street Cinema.
Digital audiences also have the opportunity to join live and rigorous interactive discussions for every title with the filmmakers, Human Rights Watch experts, and special guests. “At this time when the world feels most intensely the interconnectedness of humanity, the festival was more determined than ever to bring our UK audiences this digital edition,” said John Biaggi, director of the Human Rights Watch Film Festival. “These nine essential films present urgent human rights issues we can all relate to. Now more than ever, human rights are global. What impacts one society, what impacts one family, affects all of us.
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