We’re so thrilled that Collective will open this year’s Human Rights Watch Film Festival on 12 March! One of this year’s most anticipated documentaries, this gripping exposé offers an uncompromising look at the impact of investigative journalism at its best. Read on to find out more about the film and the festival, and don’t miss its UK release this summer.
In 2015, a fire at Bucharest’s Colectiv club leaves 27 dead and 180 injured. Soon, more burn victims begin dying in hospitals from wounds that were not life-threatening. Then a doctor blows the whistle to a team of investigative journalists. One revelation leads to another as the journalists start to uncover vast health care fraud. When a new health minister is appointed, he offers unprecedented access to his efforts to reform the corrupt system but also to the obstacles he faces. Following journalists, whistle-blowers, burn victims, and government officials, Collective is sure to be one of this year’s must-see docs. Grab your tickets to its UK Premiere below.
About Human Rights Watch Film Festival
Recently marking our 30th Anniversary and currently screening films in over 20 cities around the world, the Human Rights Watch Film Festival (HRWFF) bears witness to human rights violations in direct storytelling and exposé form, and creates a forum for courageous individuals on both sides of the lens to empower audiences with the knowledge that personal commitment can make a difference.
HRWFF makes effort to celebrate diversity of content and perspective in the films they select and post-screening conversations they host. From filmmakers to film subjects to panelists, they strive to prioritise space for identities, viewpoints, forms of expertise and experiences either silenced or marginalised in the film industry, news and media.
Human Rights Watch Film Festival comes back to London from 12-20 March, bringing stories of individuals standing up to create a better reality for their communities. Explore their programme here.