After shining a spotlight on films that engage with social justice and human rights issues for the past decade, the Human Rights Arts and Film Festival is back for another packed lineup of topical titles for 2017. Screening in Melbourne before bringing a selection of highlights to Sydney from May 23–27, HRAFF's tenth anniversary program boasts four features and a selection of shorts.
HRAFF 2017 will open with Constance on the Edge, a documentary filmed over ten years following Constance, a South Sudanese refugee who was resettled in Wagga Wagga in 2005. Other films showing include The Freedom to Marry, a doco that follows the landmark US Supreme Court ruling for marriage equality, the story of two Iranian DJs trying to produce techno music where it is forbidden, and Check It, a film about queer black youth fighting back against prejudice and violence in Washington DC.