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Festival Calender

Below you can find an overview of upcoming festivals that are part of the Human Rights Film Network.
  • July 21 2026 - July 28 2026
    Montevideo, Uruguay

    The festival seeks to provide to the audience a high quality programme of films about Human Rights issues. At the same time, Tenemos Que Ver has a strong commitment with educational activities, such...

  • August 12 2026 - August 19 2026
    Bogotá, Colombia

    Since 2013, the International Film Festival for Human Rights -Colombia, offers audiovisual programming and a cultural and training agenda that contributes to spaces for dialogue around life...

  • September 14 2026 - September 19 2026
    Tirana, Albania

    The International Human Rights Film Festival in Albania (IHRFFA) is an annual human rights film festival founded by the Academy of Film and Multimedia Marubi in 2006, in collaboration with several...

  • October 6 2026 - October 25 2026
    Vilnius, Lithuania

    Human Rights Film Festival “Inconvenient Films” is an annual documentary film festival established in 2007. The mission of this non-profit initiative is to raise awareness on human rights issues...

  • October 14 2026 - October 22 2026
    Bergen, Norway

    BIFF is a leading film festival in Norway, with admissions around 60.000 annually and around 120 feature length films, half being documentaries, making us one of the biggest documentary festivals in...

  • October 15 2026 - October 18 2026
    Nuremberg, Germany

    Weekender 2026: October 15 – 18 at Filmhaus Nürnberg
    Open Eyes 2026: October 15 – 23
    The 15th festival edition will take place in October 2027.

    NIHRFF is Germany’s oldest and biggest human rights film...

  • October 20 2026 - October 25 2026
    Bratislava, Slovakia

    International festival of documentary films One World Slovakia, taking place in the beginning of November is an inclusive hybrid (online/onsite) film event, progressive and innovative platform for the...

  • October 23 2026 - October 25 2026
    Glasgow, United Kingdom
  • October 23 2026 - November 1 2026
    Manresa, Spain

    The International Social Film Festival of Catalonia in 7 points:

    • 20 editions growing to become a reference as a major film festival in Bages, while representing the social causes of the region...
  • November 6 2026 - November 13 2026
    Tunis, Tunisia

    The Human Screen Festival is an international film festival dedicated to human rights, held annually in Tunisia.

    The festival showcases films that explore and promote human rights, social justice, and...

  • November 9 2026 - November 20 2026
    Naples, Italy

    The 18th Naples Human Rights Film Festival will be held from 9 to 20 November 2026 in the city of Naples and will have as its title "Human Development, Integral Development. Principles of Peace".

    The...

  • November 9 2026 - November 15 2026
    Dresden, Germany

    MOVE IT! is a small film festival located in Dresden, Germany. It is focused on human rights themes with a special emphasis on women's and children's rights, due to the thematic focus of it’s...

  • November 17 2026 - November 25 2026
    Budapest, Hungary

    Founded in 2004, Verzió is one of the most established film festivals in Hungary, an important meeting place for the documentary film community, civil society, academia, journalists and a diverse...

  • November 18 2026 - November 21 2026
    Abidjan, Côte d’Ivoire

    Ciné Droit Libre is a film festival committed to the cause of human rights and freedom of expression. Ciné Droit Libre’s goal is to provide a platform for filmmakers and journalists around the world...

  • December 4 2026 - December 13 2026
    Warsaw, Poland

    The International Film Festival WATCH DOCS. Human Rights in Film has been held annually in Warsaw in December since 2001. It combines high-class cinema, mainly documentaries, with public debate. It is...

  • March 10 2027 - April 23 2027
    Prague, Czechia

    One World International Human Rights Film Festival is the largest human rights film festival in the world. It is a major cultural event in the Czech Republic that attracts more than 120,000 viewers...

  • March 19 2027 - March 27 2027
    The Hague, Netherlands

    Movies that Matter screens and promotes films that draws our attention to human rights and situations in which these are at stake. The foundation's peak activity is the annual Movies that Matter...

  • April 1 2027 - April 4 2027
    Fort Collins, United States

    The ACT Human Rights Film Festival in Fort Collins, Colorado, showcases the best in human rights cinema from around the world. The festival convenes for one week every April on and off the campus of...

  • April 8 2027 - April 14 2027
    Zurich, Switzerland

    Born in 2015, the Human Rights Film Festival Zurich takes place every year. Over seven days, we show artistically strong feature-length documentaries and fiction films that explore human rights issues...

  • April 9 2027 - April 16 2027
    San Sebastian, Spain

    The Festival of Human Rights Film is an initiative that is part of the San Sebastian, Space for the Culture of Peace project. The aim is to promote greater awareness, as well as encourage debate and...