Since 2006, like other great cities in the world, Montreal has its human rights film festival. A unique event in the Montreal landscape,
the Montreal Human Rights Film Festival (MHRFF) aims at creating through cinema, a space for dialogue around the themes of rights and human realities.
The MHRFF is a competitive festival opened to feature-length and short films, documentaries, animation or fiction. It pays tribute to the numerous silver screen artisans who use their camera to take a non-censured look at the reality of human rights in various areas of the world.
Each year during ten days in March, the MHRFF gives Montreal the opportunity to become a place where discussions, screenings and solidarity actions occur. Like a leitmotiv, the festival wants to confirm the power and strength of cinema as a public information and education tool on major social issues.
Wishing to allow more works to be seen by a larger public who will discover their contents, and thanks to a great number of collaborations, the MHRFF extends its programme throughout the year in several Canadian cities during its Human Rights Encounters.
The MHRFF is part of the Human Rights Film Network (HRFN), an international network that gathers some thirty festivals throughout the world. Founded in Prague on April 18, 2004, the HRFN’s mission is to promote cinema as a tool to denounce violations of human rights and freedoms and to allow a better circulation of films dedicated to human rights.
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