Film Year: 2024

Wandering through Gaza’s “worst zoo in the world,” young boy Sami is looking for his football. The child discovers more than his missing ball when he encounters little tiger Laziz, who follows him on his quest to find a safe place to play. Against all odds, they become friends. However,…

Made over 6 years, acclaimed director Jeanie Finlay charts the rise of writer and activist Aubrey Gordon from anonymous blogger to NYTimes best selling author and beloved podcaster. Her aim? A paradigm shift in the way we see fat people and the fat on our own bodies. Her life changing work…

Filmed over a year after Russia launched its full-scale invasion of Ukraine, the film focuses on the civilians making great efforts to contribute to the resistance in every possible way. As the fighting continues for months, the mental impact of war becomes clearer, and lives are changed forever.

“Until The Sun Dies“ unfolds its stories over co-incidences of the contrary: life born from death, and death from the pursuit of peace and justice. Through its insight into the struggles of two social leaders in Colombia’s “post-conflict“ era, the film invites us to delve deeply into the stories of…

Inspired by the lawsuits filed in Florida challenging the state’s abortion ban on the basis of religious freedom, Under G-d is a documentary short film about the national Jewish response to the Dobbs v. Jackson Women’s Health Organization U.S. Supreme Court decision woven through the lived experiences of impacted Jewish…

An eye-opening and deeply disturbing story of surveillance technology, abuse of power and (self)censorship that confronts us with what can happen when our privacy is ignored. Through the haunting stories of people in China who have been monitored, intimidated, and even tortured, the film tells of the dangers of technology…

When a video of kids dancing in the rain goes viral, it brings global attention to an unlikely ballet school outside Lagos, Nigeria. Now they’re preparing for the world stage.

ACT Human Rights Film Festival will screen an exclusive one-hour reel from this award-winning series. The U.S. and the Holocaust examines America’s response to one of the greatest humanitarian crises of the twentieth century. Americans consider themselves a “nation of immigrants,” but as the catastrophe of the Holocaust unfolded in Europe, the…

This is the story of a clandestine military organization, the armed arm of a world power and its iron-fisted leader hoping to extend his influence around the world through the end of 2022. At a time when many cards are being reshuffled on the international scene, Russia is determined to…

When he was three years old, Dominique Bikaba’s family was expelled from their ancestral land in the eastern Democratic Republic of the Congo. He has spent the past 30 years fighting for the rights of Indigenous and local peoples to protect their traditional lands and the gorillas that share the…