Solidarity Human Rights Film Festival is a unique event that raises awareness on significant socio-political issues through screenings of groundbreaking films on human rights in Israel and around the world, films that promote peace, democracy and human rights alongside equality and social justice.

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Solidarity, the only Israeli film festival fully dedicated to human rights, takes place at the Tel Aviv Cinematheque since 2010. The Festival's international program shows award-winning narrative and documentary films, including works by Palestinian filmmakers, providing contexts for issues related to social and political struggles, among them: democracy, globalization, refugees and asylum seekers, the occupation of the West Bank and the Basic Law, hunger, poverty and food security, women’s rights, LGBTQ rights, children's rights, freedom of speech, environmental justice and the climate crisis.

 

The 2021 International program offers, for the first time, a film competition for feature fiction and documentary films – all of them Israeli premieres – as well as special screenings of international films, Q&A, workshops and discussions with international filmmakers.

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The 2021 Israeli program includes premieres and a selection of some of the best Israeli films in the field of human rights, special programs and retrospectives dedicated to Israeli filmmakers – Amos Gitai and Judd Neeman – a film competition for films, including tracks for features, shorts, student films and for films by high school students, aiming to encourage local filmmakers to engage with human rights issues.

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The Solidarity Festival is produced by the Solidarity for the Arts, Activism and Human Rights Association. We believe in the power of cinema to be thought provoking and to spark activism towards the creation of a better future for all of us in Israel, in the region and worldwide. In the current political climate, when the very notion of democracy is under threat, it is important for us to stand up and make our voices heard clearly, bravely and freely.