20th Annual Human Rights Watch Canada Film Festival - Uyra: The Rising Forest.
FCP is proud to be a community partner for the 20th Annual Human Rights Watch Canada Film Festival hosted in partnership with HotDocs for the free screening of Uyra: The Rising Forest, available to watch online across Canada from March 13 to 19, 2023.
With 6 feature films and documentaries, HRW bring to life human rights abuses through storytelling in a way that challenges each individual to empathize and demand justice for all people.
Uýra, a trans Indigenous artist, travels through the Amazon on a journey of self-discovery using performance art to teach Indigenous youth that they are the guardians of ancestral messages of the Amazon Forest. In a country that kills the highest number of trans, Indigenous, and environmentalist youth worldwide, Uýra leads a rising movement through arts and education while fostering unity and providing inspiration for the LGBTQIA+ and environmental movements in the heart of the Amazon Forest.
Free tickets now available - get yours here: hotdocs.ca/whats-on/films/hrw-uyra .