The Seoul Human Rights Film Festival (South Korea) is accepting films until January 11, 2026.

About the festival:
Seoul Human Right Film Festival, first established in 1996, is a non-profit human rights organization that communicates and cooperates with others by showing human rights films. Everyone has the right to see human rights films. Every human rights film has the right to be screened everywhere. It’s because human rights are the rights to life itself. It’s because human rights films are films on every life itself.

Eligibility (International Films):
– Film selection criteria are based on artistic completion and, above all, sincerity in dealing with human rights issues, irrespective of genre, format and length.
– The festival accepts both short and feature films.
– The festival accepts all kind of genres including fiction, documentary, animation, and experimental.
– Films must have been produced between 2024 and 2025.
– Films must have English subtitles.
– SHRFF responds to the calls of Palestinians and joins the BDS movement against Israel. Any film commissioned or funded by an official Israeli body or non-Israeli institution that serves Brand Israel or similar propaganda purposes regardless of the contents of the film will not be accepted.
– Submission must be done via website.
– Submission Fee: FREE
– Deadline: January 11, 2026

We recommend filmmakers to read the full Rules and Regulations here: https://hrflix.org/27submission_en/

To submit to the festival please visit: http://apply.do/27SHRFFsubE

We remind readers that the 27th Seoul Human Rights Film Festival will take place during June 2026 in Seoul, Korea.

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