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.
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 RightsClarissa’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 RightsA 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 RightsMidnight 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 RightsAzad, 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).