See our agenda below for English spoken or subtitled film tips or check MtM movies on streaming services.
Watch the documentary about the Vietnamese singer Mai Khoi online for free on January 24
Volunteer group Movies that Matter On Tour Leiden is looking for new committee members! Are you interested in human rights, do you have a passion for film and do you enjoy organizing cultural events?
Bryan Stevenson fights for justice and takes a stand for people on death row who don’t get the help they deserve. However, his fight isn’t supported by everyone. One of his first cases is a controversial one. Walter McMillian has been sentenced for the murder of an eighteen-year-old girl, even though the evidence that he...
In Steve McQueen’s debut feature Hunger Michael Fassbender plays IRA prisoner Bobby Sands. He fights for a better treatment of political prisoners. To change the situation of himself and the other prisoners Sands goes on a hunger strike. McQueen chronicles it with the greatest eye for detail by using long takes and a gritty colour...
Martin Luther King vs. The FBI shows how the FBI did everything in their power to sabotage the efforts of Martin Luther King and other black activists to change society for the better. The documentary is based on recently discovered and declassified files. Together with the John Adams Institute and Cherry Pickers De Balie has organised...