This is the 1st Human Rights Film Festival in New Zealand since 2008, the Hamilton Human Rights Film Festival, was launched the weekend before WINTEC's School of Media Arts annual Arts Festival SPARK 2014.
The films reflect an international need to understand Human Rights issues of many kinds that create difficulties for individuals and people within many different societies.
The Festival included two documentary films from New Zealand "Tatarakihi: Children of Praihaka, 2011" and "The Pa Boys, 2014", a film from Russia "A Bitter Taste of Freedom, 2012", Palestine "Al Bier, The Well, 2013, Guatemala "El Oro o la Vida, 2011", Germany, "ErdeHolleHimmel, 2014" and Aboriginal Australia "Murundak: Songs of Freedom, 2011". Many of these films were shown in Hamilton and New Zealand for the first time.