Duke Human Rights Center at the Franklin Humanities Institute (DHRC@FHI)

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A Road Out Film Screening Poster

Documentary Film Screening: A Road Out

February 19, 2026

Documentary Film Screening: A Road Out This documentary tells the remarkable story of six South African health pioneers who transformed community medicine in North Carolina, the United States and beyond. ...

Young immigrants dressed in orange jumpsuits, who have been arrested by Border Patrols.

Film Screening: The Infiltrators

February 11, 2026

The Infiltrators (2019, 95 min.) is a docu-thriller that tells the true story of young immigrants who get arrested by Border Patrol and put in a shadowy for-profit detention center ...

NCLAFF

NCLAFF. Stopping the Deportation Machine

October 4, 2025

5:00 PM. Expanding Sanctuary. Kristal Sotomayor. USA. 21 minutes. English and Spanish with subtitles. The NCLAFF is proud to add to its line-up of events: 5:30 pm. Stopping the Deportation ...

Film Screening – Plan 75

September 25, 2025

What does it mean to die well in a society where the family grave is no longer guaranteed? This is the question Dr. Anne Allison, professor of cultural anthropology at ...

Woman with drawing in front of face

Being Michelle

April 1, 2025

BEING MICHELLE is an award-winning feature-length documentary film that follows the astonishing journey of a Deaf and Disabled woman who survived incarceration and abuse. Michelle’s trajectory changed when she met ...

Man in field

“No Other Land” documentary film

February 28, 2025

Basel Adra, a Palestinian activist from Masafer Yatta in the West Bank, has been fighting the mass expulsion by Israel’s occupation since childhood. He documents the slow-motion eradication of the ...

poster from the film "Bad Faith," with a red cross superimposed over a sillhouette of the U.S. Capitol building

“Bad Faith” Film Screening

October 9, 2024

Join the Duke Human Rights Center at the Franklin Humanities Institute for the second film in our 2024-2025 Rights! Camera! Action! Film Series. “Bad Faith” is a feature-length documentary that ...

A group of Uyghur people hold images of family members

Film Screening: “All Static and Noise”

September 14, 2024

The event begins at 7PM (EDT) with opening remarks by Professor Ralph Litzinger (Cultural Anthropology). Following the documentary screening, stay for a conversation with producers Jewher Ilham and Janice Englehart, ...