Movies that Matter Festival

The Movies that Matter Festival, the successor of the Amnesty International Film Festival, takes place every spring in Filmhuis Den Haag and Theater aan het Spui in The Hague. This international film and debate festival presents some 70 human rights films and documentaries along with daily talk shows and debates with international guests.

Main partners of the festival are Amnesty International and the city of The Hague.

Click here to watch a 2009 CNN broadcast of the festival.

Opening night Movies that Matter Festival 2009

News items

Princess Mabel at A Matter of ACT Night

March 10, 2010

Just like last year, princess Mabel van Oranje will be a guest at the Movies that Matter Festival. She will be present at the A Matter of ACT Night, Saturday the 27th of March. This night Amnesty International and Movies that Matter Festival will bring a homage to the ten guests ...

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Amnesty International and Movies that Matter campaign for film maker Dhondup Wangchen

March 08, 2010

Chinese authorities sentenced Dhondup Wangchen to a six-year prison sentence on December 28th, 2009. His trial was held in secret and he was denied access to a lawyer of his choosing.   Dhondup Wangchen was detained on March 26, 2008, soon after completing filming of the documentary ...

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World premieres at the festival

March 04, 2010

A number of films have their first screening at the Movies that Matter Festival. The film Shout by Dutch directors Ester Gould and Sabine Lubbe Bakker will have its world premiere at the Movies that Matter Festival. Redlight by director Guy Jacobson will be screened ...

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Youth Party Politics Panel

March 03, 2010

Passionately led by political reporter Ferry Mingelen, the chairpersons of the youth branches of all the political parties will gather to debate the sense and nonsense of Dutch human rights policy Friday the 26th of March. They plan to address such issues as the relationship ...

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Selection Students' Choice

February 26, 2010

De nominations of the Students' Choice are announced. Mugabe and the White African, Reporter and The Red Chapel are in the running for the Students' Choice Award. Renate van der Linde, Patrick Robijn and Donia Ibrahimi, all students of the Haagse Hogeschool, form ...

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