Syracuse University Human Rights Film Festival

09/19/2025

Dear supporters, we are sorry to let you know that the annual Syracuse University Human Rights Film Festival is on pause for now because of unavoidable circumstances. We hope to be back soon!

Take care,

Professors Roger Hallas & Tula Goenka
SUHRFF Co-Directors

10/01/2023

Please join the Turning the Lens Collective and the Family Pictures Institute for Inclusive Storytelling at the Everson Museum of Art for a weekend of sharing our stories and histories through family pictures! Please follow the Family Pictures Syracuse FB page and spread the word amongst your networks.

09/28/2023

The launch of Family Pictures Syracuse at the Everson Museum of Art is just two weeks away. Please share widely in your social networks to spread the word across our communities.

09/24/2023

It’s a wrap on SUHRFF 2023! Honored to have hosted (virtually and in person) so many special guests: Angelo Madsen Minax, Aaju Peter, Sashko Protyah, Mila Teshaieva, Marcus Lenz, Evan Starling Davis, Suranga Handapangoda and Sanjeewa Pushpakumara. Fantastic post-screening discussions with the festival audience. Thanks so much to all festival staff, including Arda Oz, Angela Nell Tacson, Alissa Strusienski, Jessica Allman, Stanley Bondy, Brian Simons, Brian Tibbens, Jersey Cosantino, Katie Laissle, Anneka Herre and founding director, Tula Goenka. See you next year for SUHRFF 2024! Syracuse University Humanities Center S. I. Newhouse School of Public Communications Syracuse University

09/21/2023

Lovely profile piece in the Daily Orange on the amazing Evan Starling Davis who will be giving an artist talk on FRACTURE on Saturday, 4pm in Shemin Auditorium, Shaffer Art Building. Don't miss it!

Evan Starling-Davis’s “FRACTURE” combines video game technology with art to display artwork from local museum archives.

09/18/2023

Peacock Lament by Sanjeewa Pushpakumara (Sri Lanka/Italy, 2022, 103 min., Sinhala with English subtitles)
Where: Shemin Auditorium, Shaffer Art Building
When: September 23, 7PM
To earn money for his sister’s heart surgery, Amila is drawn into the corrupt world of trafficking babies from unwanted pregnancies in Sri Lanka.
There will be a Q&A with filmmaker after the screening.

09/18/2023

Fracture by Evan Starling-Davis
Where: Shemin Auditorium, Shaffer Art Building
When: September 23, 4 PM
Syracuse-based digital-age griot, Evan Starling-Davis presents an Afro-Surreal poetic VR experience featuring 3D renderings of objects from Afro-diasporic culture in local archives. (Co-program with the Urban Video Project).

09/17/2023

When Spring Came to Bucha by Mila Teshaieva and Marcus Lenz (Ukraine/Germany, 2022, 66 min., Ukrainian and Russian with English subtitles)
Where: Shemin Auditorium, Shaffer Art Building
When: September 23, 1 PM
Liberated from Russian occupation, a small Ukrainian community continues with life amid trauma and loss, while war rages on close by.
There will be a Q&A with filmmaker after the screening.

09/17/2023

My Favorite Job by Sashko Protyah (Ukraine, 2022, 32 min., Ukranian with English subtitles)
Where: Shemin Auditorium, Shaffer Art Building
When: September 23, 1 PM
Portrait of Ukrainian volunteers rescuing civilians from besieged Mariupol.

09/17/2023

Twice Colonized by Lin Alluna (Denmark/Greenland/Canada, 2022, 92 min., Kalaaallisut, Inuktitut, and Danish with English subtitles)
Where: Joyce Hergenhan Auditorium, Newhouse 3
When: September 22, 7 PM
Inuit lawyer Aaju Peter has led a life-long struggle for the rights of Indigenous people. But is it possible to change the world and mend your own wounds at the same time?
There will be a Q&A with filmmaker after the screening.