About
the Festival
Solidarity Human Rights Film Festival began in 2011 out of a deep belief in the power of art in general, and cinema in particular, to create significant change in worldviews and in reality.
The Solidarity Festival, the only cultural event in Israel dedicated entirely to human rights, offers the audience an excellent cinematic experience that, alongside shared enjoyment and entertainment, also seeks to provoke thought and raise for discussion issues that are at the core of liberal and humanist thought, at a time when democracy in Israel and around the world is being challenged and human rights are under threat.
The festival program combines award-winning narrative and documentary
films from Israel and around the world as well as frameworks for examining burning topics related to various issues and struggles – among them are democracy, pursuit of peace, globalization, refugees and asylum seekers, discrimination, racism, women's rights, LGBT rights, children's and youth rights, the right to protest, freedom of expression, freedom of the press, workers' rights, hunger, poverty and food security, environmental justice and the climate crisis.
In addition, the festival screens films and holds discussions that address unique local issues, primarily the occupation and the Nation-State Law, out of a deep commitment to promoting Israeli cinema and responsibility for creating a more just and fair society in Israel.