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Northeast Human Rights Film Festival

  • Dodd Center for Human Rights 405 Babbidge Road, U-1205 Storrs, CT 06269 (map)

Northeast Human Rights Film Festival

May 19-21, 2023

The Northeast Human Rights Film Festival provides a forum to increase awareness of contemporary human rights issues by sharing compelling films and other digital media. Building on UConn’s prominence in human rights, we bring together filmmakers, scholars, community groups, and practitioners for advocacy and impact.

All events will be held at the UConn campus in Storrs, CT, are free and open to the public, but require ticket reservation.

Learn more and reserve tickets at filmfestival.humanrights.uconn.edu


Click here for the full schedule.


FILMS:

  • The Territory, (2022) documentary, 1 hr 25 min
    Friday, May 19
    6:00 P.M. Screening | 7:30 P.M. Impact Event
    Konover Auditorium, The Dodd Center for Human Rights

  • Clarissa’s Battle, (2022) documentary, 1 hr 30 min
    Saturday, May 20
    2:00 P.M. Screening | 3:30 P.M. Impact Event
    Konover Auditorium, The Dodd Center for Human Rights

  • A Reckoning in Boston, (2021) documentary, 1 hr 23
    Saturday, May 20
    5:00 P.M. Screening | 6:45 P.M. Encounters Dialogue & Dinner
    Konover Auditorium, The Dodd Center for Human Rights

  • Midnight Traveler, (2019) documentary, 1 hr 28 min
    Sunday, May 21
    1:00 P.M. Screening | 2:30 P.M. Impact Event
    Konover Auditorium, The Dodd Center for Human Rights

  • Azad, multimedia puppetry performance, 1 hr 30 min (work-in-progress)
    Sunday, May 21
    4:00 PM 
    Ballard Institute and Museum of Puppetry


About the Festival

The Northeast Human Rights Film Festival (NEHRFF) is a three-day forum for screening and discussion of compelling films and digital media projects that address contemporary human rights issues. In addition to film screenings, filmmakers will have the opportunity to engage with other filmmakers, scholars, and practitioners for skills training, advocacy, and impact strategy development. Festival attendees will have the opportunity to engage in dialogue around critical issues related to human rights film.

Building on the 20-year legacy of human rights education at UConn and the Human Rights Film and Digital Media Initiative, NEHRFF is a collaboration between UConn’s Gladstein Family Human Rights Institute, Dodd Human Rights Impact, and the department of Digital Media & Design

The Northeast Human Rights Film Festival is presented by the School of Fine Arts and the Gladstein Family Human Rights Institute, with generous philanthropic support from NICABM (National Institute for the Clinical Application of Behavioral Medicine).


Earlier Event: May 19
Northeast Human Rights Film Festival
Later Event: May 20
Storrs Farmers Market