Human rights film festival

[4] The festival became a yearly event starting in 1995 and takes place at the Lincoln Center, a major arts and cultural institution in Manhattan, New York.

[1] Although the festival's main sponsor is still Amnesty International it has since moved to The Hague, the Netherlands a city widely known to host many non-government organizations (NGOs) working towards promoting human rights related goals.

[9][1] One World boasts the largest number of thematic sections in a human rights film festival and runs for eleven days.

[1] International Film Festival and Forum on Human Rights (FIFDH) takes place annually in Geneva, Switzerland and has been running since 2002.

[1] The festival is supported by the World Organization Against Torture and coincides annually with the main meeting of the United Nations Human Rights Council.

[4] Since the economic crisis that took place in 2001, after a failed attempt of government imposed neoliberalism, the festival has also dealt with issues of immigration caused by the opening of Latin American borders and land grabs impacting Indigenous Peoples.

[11] The festival acts as a meeting place for activists and filmmakers to show films/videos while also functioning as a local distribution network where copies of films are exchanged.

[5] This allowed the Indonesian audience to see similar activism happening across the region creating a solidarity network.

[5] Some criticisms levelled at human rights film festivals, according to social work studies scholar Sonia Tascón, are their tendency, in a 'Western' context, to look out.