Solidarity
Festival 2023
The special edition of the 2023 Solidarity Festival was held for eight days under the distress and dark shadow of the events of October 7 and the war in Gaza and northern Israel. The 11th edition of the Solidarity Festival took place out of a sense of commitment to the themes and founding values of the festival, aiming to provoke though about what happened to us and the path we must walk on right now.
We would like to thank the Israeli and international filmmakers for the privilege to screen their films, the thousands of viewers who attended the festival events, and all of our partners who made it possible for us to hold the 2023 Solidarity Festival at the Tel Aviv Cinematheque and five other locations throughout Israel. We will be pleased to see you at our events throughout 2024 and at the 12 th Solidarity Human Rights Film Festival, which will be held in December on 5-10.12.2024, in the hope of strengthening in Israel a commitment to human rights and to quality cinematic work, of which human rights are part of its DNA.
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About the Festival
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. This is the 11th
edition of the festival, and given the
situation in Israel and around the world, it seems that the need for its existence is clearer than ever. Solidarity, the only Israeli film festival fully dedicated to human rights, takes place at the Tel Aviv Cinematheque since 2010. The Festival's program shows award-winning narrative and documentary films, 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: Israel as the Nation-State of the Jewish People, hunger, poverty and food security, women’s rights, LGBTQ rights, children's rights, freedom of speech, freedom of the press, environmental justice and the climate crisis.