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The Toronto edition of The Human Rights Watch Film Festival kicks off today and runs until April 6th at the TIFF Bell Lightbox. Screening in 20 cities around the world throughout the year, the festival uses the medium of film to highlight human rights violations around the world and those standing up to injustice. Over at In the Seats, I reviewed two films screening at the festival: Complicit and Nowhere to Hide. You can find an excerpt of the films’ synopsis, courtesy of the TIFF website, and a link to my reviews below:

Complicit
TIFF synopsis excerpt: “A courageous factory worker struggling with leukemia helps a group of young Chinese workers who have also been poisoned while making our favourite cell phones and electronic gadgets.”

Review: You can read my review over at In the Seats.

Nowhere to Hide
TIFF synopsis excerpt: “Nowhere to Hide follows male nurse Nori Sharif through five years of dramatic change, providing unique access into one of the world’s most dangerous and inaccessible areas: the “triangle of death” in central Iraq.”

Review: You can read my review over at In the Seats.

For ticket information, and the full list of Human Rights Watch Film Festival titles, please visit the TIFF website

Published by Courtney Small

The founder of Cinema Axis, Courtney is a Rotten Tomatoes approved critic who can frequently be heard discussing film as co-host of Frameline on Radio Regent. Courtney has contributed to several publications including Leonard Maltin, That Shelf, POV Magazine, In the Seats, Black Girl Nerds, and Comix Asylum. He has appeared on ET Canada and Hollywood Suite's Cinema A to Z. Courtney celebrates diversity in cinema as host of the Changing Reels podcast and is a member of the Toronto Film Critics Association, the Online Film Critics Society, and the African American Film Critics Association.

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