Human Rights Watch Film Festival

Expand The Human Rights Watch Toronto Film Festival poster featuring a still from the opening night feature, ‘I Am Not Alone’. The festival will run from January 30 to February 4, 2020. © 2019 Human Rights Watch Human Rights Watch is taking the occasion of International Human Rights Day to announce its 17th annual film festival for January 30 through February 4, 2020 in Toronto. The festival, in a new partnership with Hot Docs, will present five free timely and provocative films, with an additional three films specially selected for daytime school screenings. The films were selected to shine…

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