Human Rights Watch Film Festival’s New York edition has announced its 2022 program. Seventy percent of this of this year’s filmmakers are women and 70 percent are sharing a story about their own region, per a press release announcing the lineup. The slate consists of 10 films, which will be available both in-person and online nationwide in the U.S., from May 20-26.
Titles set to screen include the world premieres of “Up To G-Cup,” Jacqueline van Vugt’s look inside northern Iraq’s first lingerie store, and “Clarissa’s Battle,” Tamara Perkins’ portrait of a single mother and organizer building a coalition of parents fighting for child care and early education funds.
Also screening are Snow Hnin Ei Hlaing’s “Midwives” and Tia Lessin and Emma Pildes’ “The Janes.” The former focuses on an under-resourced medical clinic in western Myanmar and the latter tells the story of an underground network that provided illegal abortions in pre-Roe v. Wade Chicago.
Head over to the fest’s website for the complete lineup.
