CAMERA AS WITNESS Presents th 19 United Nations Association Film Festival

October 20-30, 2016 Stanford University • Palo Alto East Palo Alto • San Francisco unaff.org Founder and Executive Director Jasmina Bojic

UNITED NATIONS ASSOCIATION FILM FESTIVAL (UNAFF) CELEBRATES Honorary Committee 19 YEARS OF GROUNDBREAKING DOCUMENTARIES WITH 60 FILMS FROM ACROSS THE GLOBE THAT WILL CHANGE YOUR VIEW OF THE WORLD. Alec Baldwin 6 WORLD PREMIERES AND 16 US PREMIERES TO BE SCREENED OCTOBER 20-30 Peter Coyote WITH THE THEME “COMPASS FOR A BETTER WORLD”. Lolita Davidovich OVER 50 FILMMAKERS TO BE IN ATTENDANCE THROUGHOUT THE FESTIVAL. William Draper III Danny Glover Established in 1998 to honor the 50th anniversary of the Universal Declaration of Human Daryl Hannah Rights, UNAFF has grown and earned the respect of audiences and filmmakers alike for its Gale Anne Hurd fearless independence and integrity and in the process became one of the oldest purely Susan Sarandon documentary film festivals in the US. In addition to providing early outlets for films, many of which later went on to win major awards and accolades, including Academy Awards, John Savage UNAFF prides itself in creating a community forum for discovery and dialogue about dif- Erika Szanto ferent cultures, issues and solutions. Ted Turner In eleven days UNAFF will present documentaries spotlighting current events from across the globe, including Barbara Trent Afghanistan, Argentina, Brazil, Cuba, Ethiopia, France, Germany, India, Iraq, Israel, Italy, Kenya, Lebanon, Morocco, Mexico, Nepal, Norway, Pakistan, Peru, Philippines, Poland, Saudi Arabia, Syria, South Africa and the US. Zucchero Additional topics include climate change, the impact of industrial and military ocean noise on whales, gun control, the capture and counting of votes in our elections, the evolution of political media, efforts to restore violins recovered Advisory Board from the Holocaust, Islamic seminaries for children, refugees using the power of theater, the future of our food, Juliette Feeney-Timsit, Chair extinction of bees, homelessness, women in Internet technology, race on college campuses, the only health clinic that serves undocumented immigrants in the US, collateral damage in the War on Drugs, veterans’ mental health, and Adriana Baird criminal justice. Priscilla Connelly The theme for this year, COMPASS FOR A BETTER WORLD, continues the ongoing celebration of the Universal Bob Filice Declaration of Human Rights and focuses on the various aspects of the Sustainable Development Goals. Dianne Griffin UNAFF is committed not only to presenting films, but also creating spaces where audience members can engage in Ronny Hamed ongoing dialogue about the subjects at hand. Six FREE panel discussions will take place during the course of the Seth Horvitz festival covering the preciousness of each child, guns and society, the crossroads of civil rights, fear, prejudice, and race, arts for social change, and the intersection of health and ethics. Charles Junkerman Cathy Keys UNAFF’s mission has expanded to broad, year round programs that augment its reach. In addition to the annual film festival, UNAFF organizes panel discussions, initiates programs Dawn Kwan that engage children, students, seniors, veterans, hosts a traveling festival which keeps Linda Lopez-Otero the films alive well beyond their initial festival showings and opens its doors to documen- Mary Jane Marcus tary film students and researchers. Betty Meissner We hope that the variety of film programs and other related events during UNAFF 2016 will present you with a truly exciting and memorable experience. We thank you all for your Misha Milojkovic attendance, and with your support we hope to continue UNAFF and its programs Amado Padilla throughout 2017, when we celebrate our 20th Anniversary. Shannon Peavey Our special thanks go to the UNAFF Associate Director Chris Scheerder for leading the John Pearson fundraising efforts and nurturing the community of UNAFF supporters. Relja Penezic David Rock Warmest regards, Laarni von Ruden Jacque Rupp Chris Scheerder Jasmina Bojic Duarte Silva Founder and Executive Director Julie Skelton UNAFF & UNAFF Traveling Film Festival Helen Young Recipient of the 2014 UNESCO Fellini Medal THURSDAY, OCTOBER 20 OPENING NIGHT SCREENINGS Aquarius Theatre 430 Emerson Street Palo Alto FILMS A-Z 6:15 pm Opening words by Mayor of Palo Alto, Patrick Burt

6:30 pm POSTER GIRL (US, 38 min)

7:20 pm APACHE 8 (US, 57 min)

8:30 pm SEED: THE UNTOLD STORY (US, 94 min)

TOC OPENING NIGHT PARTY Welcome 1 9:30 pm Location TBD Opening & Closing Nights 01:05:12 THE LONGEST RACE 7 DAYS IN SYRIA AGENTS OF CHANGE 2 DIR: Javier Triana, Ruben San Bruno DIR: Robert Rippberger DIR/PROD: Abby Ginzberg, Frank Dawson Films A–Z 3–9 PROD: Javier Triana PROD: Robert Rippberger, Scott Rosenfelt, Janine Schedule 10–11 di Giovanni, Matthew VanDyke, Nicole Tung The film examines the untold story of racial con- Can the world be changed with just your legs? ditions on college campuses that led to pro- Panels 12 SUNDAY, OCTOBER 30 The victories of hundreds of Kenyan and Ethio- Janine di Giovanni, Newsweek Middle East editor, tests across the country at over 1,000 colleges. Print Sources 14–15 pian female athletes are transforming the socio- proposed to cover the war in Syria. The newspa- Through the stories of the film’s characters who economic landscape in two traditionally macho pers rejected her request. She decided to go any- were caught at the crossroads of the civil rights Sponsors 16 CLOSING NIGHT countries, one stride at a time. On this marathon way. A few weeks after the trip, Steven Sotloff, and black power movements at a pivotal time in Tickets 71 to gender equality, roles are being reversed - who Janine speaks with while in Aleppo, is cap- American history, their struggle echoes the ques- SCREENINGS men take care of the house and women earn the tured and killed. Yet, she and her crew put them- tions about inclusiveness, identity and racial ste- Special Thanks 18 Cubberley Auditorium income. selves in harm’s way to bear witness show the reotyping that lie at the heart of the Black Lives Venues 19–20 485 Lasuen Mall, Stanford (51 min) Ethiopia/Kenya/Spain world the suffering of the Syrian people. Matter movement of today. (65 min) US FRI OCT 21 4:00 PM PA-MITCHELL PARK (75 min) Syria/US WED OCT 26 8:00 PM SU-CERAS 1:00 pm CHILDREN DEPORTED: FARIDA (Afghanistan/Norway, 16 min) FRI OCT 21 9:00 PM PA-MITCHELL PARK 1:30 pm GUANTANAMO’S CHILD: OMAR KHADR (Canada, 80 min)

3:10 pm THE COMPUTERS (US, 20 min)

3:40 pm FEMINISM INSHALLAH: A HISTORY OF ARAB FEMINISM (Algeria/Egypt/ Lebanon/Morocco/Tunisia/Saudi Arabia, 55 min)

4:50pm WHY ARE THE BEES DYING? (Germany, 45 min) ALL RISE AMONG THE BELIEVERS APACHE 8 DIR: Hemal Trivedi, Mohammed Naqvi 5:40 pm SONIC SEA (Bahamas/Canada/Madagascar/Norway/US, 61 min) DIR: Jeffrey Saunders, Jay Shapiro DIR: Sande Zeig PROD: Jeffrey Saunders PROD: Hemal Trivedi, Jonathan Goodman Levitt PROD: Sande Zeig, Dolly Hall, Victoria Westover

6:50 pm HOW TO LET GO OF THE WORLD AND LOVE ALL THE THINGS CLIMATE CAN’T Several passionate law students are intent on Firebrand cleric Abdul Aziz Ghazi, an ISIS supporter Apache 8 has been fighting fires on the White CHANGE (US, 127 min) making a change in themselves and the world, and Taliban ally, is waging jihad against the Paki- Mountain Apache reservation and throughout as they take on a major step early in their careers stani government with the aim of imposing Sha- the United States for over thirty years. Four ex- 9:00 pm Awards Ceremony competing in the world’s largest moot court riah law. His primary weapon is his expanding net- traordinary women from different generations of competition, the Jessup. Against the backdrop work of Islamic seminaries for children as young the Apache 8 crew share their personal narratives of their very different lives, this film lays bare the as four. His dream is to impose a strict version of with humor and tenderness. (57 min) US CLOSING NIGHT PARTY transformative process that is woven into this Shariah law throughout the country, as a model THU OCT 20 7:20 PM PA-AQUARIUS Sponsored by Garden Court Hotel, $50 (includes Closing Night Screenings & Awards) global effort and bares light on the individuals for the world. The film also follows the lives of two who will one day change the world through the teenage students who have attended madras- 9:30 pm Garden Court Hotel, 520 Cowper Street, Palo Alto instruments of international law. (96 min) US sas run by Aziz’s Red Mosque network. (85 min) Music by Potential Jazz Ensemble WED OCT 26 5:10 PM SU-CERAS Afghanistan/Pakistan/US SAT OCT 29 7:50 PM SU-CUBBERLEY 3 BOY 23 THE BRAINWASHING OF MY DAD CAST FROM THE STORM DRESDEN REFUGE DUGMA - THE BUTTON EL POETA DIR: Belisario Franca DIR: Jen Senko DIR: David Mason DIR: Xuban Intxausti DIR: Paul Refsdal DIR: Katie Galloway, Kelly Duane de la Vega PROD: Maria Carneiro da Cunha PROD: Jen Senko, Matthew Modine, Adam Rackoff PROD: James Cogswell PROD: Leire Larisgoitia PROD: Ingvil Giske PROD: Katie Galloway, Kelly Duane de la Vega, A filmmaker follows a historian’s investigation After fleeing war and persecution in the Middle East, Nefertiti Kelley Farias about bricks branded with the swastika, which A filmmaker examines the rise of right-wing media many teenagers find themselves facing a brand new In 2015, Germany was the only European country When al Qaida in Syria are up against a seem- were found in rural São Paulo. They found that through the lens of her father, whose immersion stage—beyond the horror they’ve endured along the that enacted an open-door policy towards refu- ingly impenetrable enemy position, they send in Renowned Mexican poet Javier Sicili ignited Brazilian Nazis took fifty black boys from an or- in it radicalized him and rocked the foundation of way, High School in Sydney, Australia, is a vastly differ- gees, who were arriving in droves from countries the Martyrdom Seekers—volunteers who drive mass protests and an ongoing international phanage in Rio de Janeiro to the ranch and made their family. She discovers this political phenom- ent challenge. Yet with the help of an innovative the- at war, most of them from Syria. As a result, Ger- a truck or an armored personnel carrier loaded movement after the brutal killing of his 24-year- them slaves by a family that was part of the cream enon recurring in living rooms everywhere, and atre program, a unique opportunity awaits. Revealing many accepted one million people in a year. This with tons of explosives towards the enemy and old son Juan Francisco—collateral damage in a of the crop of the political and economic oligar- reveals the consequences conservative media has “Storm Stories”— the stories that made them refugees phenomenon has had an especially significant detonate the load. These operations are simply drug war that has left more than 100,000 dead or chy. Two survivors, Aloísio Silva and Argemiro had on families and a nation. A filmmaker tries to —and mastering them for the stage, is a cathartic yet impact in Dresden. The former Eastern German known among the Jihadis by the Arabic word for missing since 2006. Sicilia called on the Mexican Santos are willing to share their stories for the first understand the transformation of her father from a problematic process, and the group face a range of di- city has been in the spotlight because it is where button—Dugma. In the film Dugma we follow people to protest and demand that the govern- time. Aloísio tells the terrible experience these non political, lifelong Democrat to an angry, right- sasters on opening night. Steering the ship are three PEGIDA was born (Patriots Against the Islamiza- four Martyrdom Seekers in their daily lives wait- ment address the devastating impact of the mili- boys suffered to point of eliminating even their wing fanatic. (90 min) US passionate teachers under enormous pressure to pro- tion of Occident, an organization openly hostile ing for their turn to go on the final mission. tarized drug war. (56 min) Mexico/US names. He was named 23. (80 min) Brazil TUE OCT 25 8:40 PM SF-NINTH STREET vide every child with a bright future. (72 min) Australia towards refugees). (56 min) Germany/Spain (58 min) Norway/Syria SUN OCT 23 4:25 PM PA-MITCHELL PARK SAT OCT 29 6:10 PM SU-CUBBERLEY WED OCT 26 3:30 PM EPA-EASTSIDE THTR MON OCT 24 7:45 PM SF-NINTH STREET SUN OCT 23 3:15 PM PA-MITCHELL PARK

CHILDREN DEPORTED: FARIDA CLINICA DE MIGRANTES: LIFE, LIBERTY AND CODE OAKLAND THE EMPTY ROOM FEMINISM INSHALLAH: A HISTORY OF ARAB FINDING OSCAR DIR: Ragnhild Sørheim THE PURSUIT OF HAPPINESS DIR/PROD: Kelly Amis DIR/PROD: Jasna Krajinovic FEMINISM DIR: Ryan Suffern PROD: Thorvald Nilsen DIR/PROD: Maxim Pozdorovkin DIR: Feriel Ben Mahmoud PROD: Ryan Suffern, Frank Marshall Clinica de Migrantes is a medical drama about a As Silicon Valley spreads into Oakland in search Sabri, Saliha’s son, abruptly left for Syria one PROD: Virgine Adoutte Nine-year-old Farida was deported to Afghani- year in the life of Puentes, one of the only health of cheaper real estate, local social entrepreneurs day to make the jihad. He was nineteen. Three Finding Oscar is the story about the search for justice stan in February of 2015, after almost four years clinics in the US involved in the politically contro- are working to ensure that black youth not be left months later, Saliha, her husband and her chil- The struggle for Muslim women’s emancipation in the case of the Dos Erres massacre in Guatemala. in Norway. A country she has never been to be- versial practice of providing healthcare to undoc- on the sidelines, but instead become leaders and dren just as abruptly learnt of his death. Sabri is often portrayed stereotypically as a showdown That search leads to the trail of two little boys, Oscar fore, with a language and a culture that is foreign umented immigrants. By law, illegal immigrants even transformers of the tech revolution. This film left behind an empty room and devastated rela- between Western and Islamic values, but Arab and Ramiro, who were plucked from a nightmare to her. She misses her friends, her school and the cannot obtain health insurance, and receive no examines the evolution of Oakland through the tives. Saliha, in the face of this difficult mourning, feminism has existed for more than a century. This and raised by the soldiers that committed the atroc- safety of the small town Dokka. We follow her regular medical treatment. At Puentes, a team of eyes of social entrepreneurs who are determined decides to take action and mingles with other groundbreaking documentary recounts Arab femi- ity. These boys offer the only living evidence that ties new life in an unknown Kabul, where she talks volunteers led by Dr. Steve Larson attend to an that youth of color not be left on the sidelines as parents, other mothers whose children left for nism’s largely unknown story, from its taboo-shatter- the Guatemalan government to the massacre. The about her longing for Norway and the future that ever-growing population of housekeepers, prep Silicon Valley spreads across the Bay and into the Syria. Together they try to understand where this ing birth in Egypt by feminist pioneers up through film profiles the young Guatemalan prosecutor who so abruptly was taken away from her. cooks, and construction workers. Many come to home of the second largest black community in sudden radicalization comes from and how their viral Internet campaigns by today’s tech-savvy took on her own government, and the US immigra- (16 min) Afghanistan/Norway Puentes after being turned away at other hospi- California. (22 min) US children could be enlisted by the jihadist net- young activists during the Arab Spring. (55 min) Alge- tion agents who began rounding up war criminals SUN OCT 30 1:00 PM SU-CUBBERLEY tals. (38 min) US WED OCT 26 3:00 PM EPA-EASTSIDE THTR works so rapidly. (59 min) Belgium/France/Syria ria/Egypt/Lebanon/Morocco/Tunisia/Saudi Arabia found living in the States. (95 min) Guatemala/US FRI OCT 28 7:00 PM SU-MEDICAL WED OCT 26 4:00 PM SU-CERAS SUN OCT 30 3:40 PM SU-CUBBERLEY SUN OCT 23 9:30 PM PA-MITCHELL PARK

THE COMPUTERS A CONVERSATION WITH GREGORY PECK DETROIT: RENAISSANCE OF AMERICA GUANTANAMO’S CHILD: OMAR KHADR HOW TO DEFUSE A BOMB: THE PROJECT HOW TO LET GO OF THE WORLD AND LOVE DIR/PROD: Kathy Kleiman, Jon Palfreman, Kate DIR: Barbara Kopple DIR: Charles Annenberg Weingarten DIR: Patrick Reed, Michelle Shephard CHILDREN STORY ALL THE THINGS CLIMATE CAN’T CHANGE McMahon PROD: Barbara Kopple, Cecilia Peck, Linda Saffire PROD: Tom Pollack PROD: Patrick Reed, Peter Raymont, Michelle DIR: Des Henderson DIR: Josh Fox Shephard PROD: Ed Stobart PROD: Deia Schlosberg In the United States, women are vastly under- An intimate portrait of the legendary actor and Welcome to 21st century Detroit. The once-thriv- After spending nearly half his life behind bars, including a The untold story of how—over a forty-year pe- represented in STEM (Science, Technology, En- humanitarian, known for his integrity and for ing automobile industry has taken a major blow, decade at the Guantanamo Bay Detention Centre, Khadr riod—an NYPD cop brought over twenty-three Oscar-nominated director Josh Fox continues, in gineering & Math) fields, holding under 25% of standing up against racism, anti-semitism and poverty is rampant, and major swaths of the city is suddenly released. In 2002, Khadr was captured by thousand children from the worst areas of the his deeply personal style, investigating climate STEM jobs and a disproportionately low share of inequality. In 1999, Gregory Peck visits the Bar- are deserted. But will grassroots art and culture Americans in Afghanistan and charged with war crimes. troubles in Northern Ireland to America for a sum- change—the greatest threat our world has ever STEM undergraduate degrees. This film shows ter Theatre, Abingdon, VA, where he had acted in lead Detroit’s renaissance? Join host Charles An- In October 2010, Khadr pleaded guilty to five war crimes, mer of getting away from it all, not only winning known. Traveling to twelve countries on six con- how women revolutionized the computing and 1940 and where this evening he tells stories and nenberg Weingarten for a street-level look at De- including “murder in violation of the laws of war,” in return their hearts and minds, but also influencing Amer- tinents, the film acknowledges that it may be too Internet technology we use today, inspiring fe- answers questions about his career. Interspersed troit’s rebirth. (21 min) US for a plea deal that gave him an eight-year sentence and ican politicians and contributing to winning peace late to stop some of the worst consequences and male students to believe that programming ca- are clips from Peck’s films and from interviews re- THU OCT 27 8:00 PM SU-ANDERSON COLL chance to return to Canada. Khadr later recanted his con- in Northern Ireland. In 1975 Denis Mulcahy—an asks, what is it that climate change can’t destroy? reers lie within their grasp. (20 min) US corded over the years. (92 min) US fession. His Guantanamo conviction is being appealed in Irish Immigrant—decided he couldn’t stand idly What is so deep within us that no calamity can SUN OCT 30 3:10 PM SU-CUBBERLEY THU OCT 27 8:30 PM SU-ANDERSON COLL the US courts. Khadr is the only juvenile ever tried for war by whilst Northern Ireland blew up on his nightly take it away? (127 min) US crimes. (80 min) Canada news bulletin. (90 min) Ireland/UK/US SUN OCT 30 6:50 PM SU-CUBBERLEY SUN OCT 30 1:30 PM SU-CUBBERLEY TUE OCT 25 6:50 PM SF-NINTH STREET 4 5 I VOTED? LAST DAY OF FREEDOM THE LEARNING ALLIANCE PAINTED NAILS PAPER LANTERNS PETALS IN THE DUST: THE ENDANGERED DIR: Jason Grant Smith DIR/PROD: Dee Hibbert-Jones, Nomi Talisman DIR: Muhammad Umar Saeed DIR/PROD: Dianne Griffin, Erica Jordan DIR/PROD: Barry Frechette INDIAN GIRLS PROD: Katie Couric, Regina Scully, David PROD: Muhammad Farrukh Saeed, Muhammad DIR: Nyna Pais Caputi Wolthoff, Wendy Abrams, Marla Sandler When Bill realizes his brother Manny has com- Umar Saeed When Van Hoang, a Vietnamese immigrant and On August 6th 1945, among the tens of thousands PROD: Gino Caputi, Nyna Pais Caputi mitted a crime he agonizes over his decision— nail salon owner, sees her American dream crum- that lost their lives in the bombing of Hiroshima were They come from all walks of life and share only one It is Election Day. We mark our ballots and away should he call the police? Academy Nominated, Collecting garbage for earning and paying their ble as she discovers that her health problems, twelve American POWs. Shigeaki Mori witnessed the common trait: they are female. A patriarchal mindset, a they disappear for counting—tallied by reliable Last Day of Freedom, a richly animated personal fees for school, three brothers are changing their including two miscarriages, are the result of toxic blast and survived, but was forever changed. Paper preference for sons, and a deep-seated intolerance has systems. Or so we hope. Few citizens realize that to- narrative, tells the story of Bill’s decision to stand future by studying and at the same time selling chemicals in the products used in her salon, she Lanterns tells the story of Shigeaki Mori and his life- led to the murder of fifty million girls and women in India day’s elections offer scant guarantee that votes are by his brother in the face of war, crime and capi- garbage in Lahore, Pakistan. The Learning Alliance unwittingly becomes involved in the fight for long calling to tell the story of not only the many Jap- in the last century. They continue to lose their lives in this recorded as intended. The film examines the cap- tal punishment. The film is a portrait of a man at is a portrait of children with dreams and their safe cosmetics. In Painted Nails, we witness Van’s anese victims of the bomb, but of Normand Brissette, century to infanticide, sex-selective abortions, starvation ture and counting of votes in our elections. It asks the nexus of the most pressing social issues of struggle towards achieving it. (9 min) Pakistan transformation from a self-described shy woman Ralph Neal and the ten other US airmen caught in and medical neglect, dowry deaths and brutal gang the question, “How do we know our votes count?” our day—veterans’ care, mental health access SAT OCT 22 11:15 AM PA-MITCHELL PARK who speaks minimal English to a forthright advo- the hell on earth of that day. The film shows how the rapes. The declining female population is also leading to The answer is both surprising and disturbing. While and criminal justice. (32 min) US cate who testifies before Congress in Washing- war impacted families in both countries, and how increased crimes against women including trafficking and democracy does not begin with elections, it can WED OCT 26 7:15 PM SU-CERAS ton, DC at hearings for the Safe Cosmetics and one man can rise above the hatred of war and heal bride buying. By 2020 there will be twenty percent more end by failing to protect them. (76 min) US Personal Care Products Act. (57 min) US /Vietnam the wounds of those terrible days. (59 min) Japan/US men than women in India. (89 min) Canada/India/US SAT OCT 29 3:00 PM SU-CUBBERLEY FRI OCT 28 7:50 PM SU-MEDICAL SUN OCT 23 8:20 PM PA-MITCHELL PARK SAT OCT 22 2:50 PM PA-MITCHELL PARK

LIMBO NAVAJO MATH CIRCLES NEFERTITI’S DAUGHTERS POSTER GIRL REAL BOY SEED: THE UNTOLD STORY DIR: Olivia Bickel, Cynthia Horvilleur DIR/PROD: George Csicsery DIR: Mark Nickolas, Racha Najdi DIR: Sara Nesson DIR:/PROD: Shaleece Haas DIR/PROD: Jon Betz, Taggart Siegel PROD: Ana Thompson Navajo Math Circles follows Navajo students in PROD: Jean Ferreri PROD: Sara Nesson, Mitchell Block After risking their lives to escape injustice and pursue a lively collaboration with mathematicians. The Robynn Murray, a National Merit Scholar and an all-Amer- Real Boy is the coming-of-age story of Bennett With ninety-four percent of our seed varieties a better life in Europe, several dozen migrants from students stay late after school and assemble Female graffiti artists in Egypt use their street art ican cheerleader enlisted in the Army to a Civil Affairs Wallace, a transgender teenager on a journey to extinct, Seed reveals a David and Goliath battle West Africa have found themselves trapped in a web over the summer at Diné College to study math- to participate in and lead revolution. This is a story unit focused on rebuilding Iraq. Promoted to sergeant, find his voice—as a musician, a friend, a son, and for our future. This film follows passionate seed of Italian bureaucracy. Now living in a converted hotel ematics. The math circles approach emphasizes of women, art and revolution. Told by prominent Robynn was featured on the cover of Army Magazine a man. As he navigates the ups and downs of keepers protecting our 12,000 year-old food leg- in the small town of Monteroduni, they face both a le- student-centered learning by putting children Egyptian artists, this documentary witnesses the as a “poster girl” for women serving in first-time combat young adulthood, Bennett works to gain the love acy. As biotech chemical companies control the gal system unprepared to accommodate their needs in charge of exploring mathematics to their own critical role revolutionary street art played dur- roles. Academy Nominated film, Poster Girl speaks to a and support of his mother, who has deep misgiv- majority of our seeds, farmers, scientists, lawyers, and prejudice from the Italians who surround them. joy and satisfaction. The film reveals the chal- ing the Egyptian uprisings. Focused on the role of national concern for veterans who are left alone to suffer ings about her child’s transition. Along the way, and indigenous seed keepers fight a David and As Italy pauses the lives of hundreds of thousands of lenges in education on the Navajo Nation. Ap- women artists in the struggle for social and politi- with PTSD. Eighteen veterans commit suicide every day, a he forges a powerful friendship with his idol, Joe Goliath battle to defend the future of our food. migrants, some Italians acknowledge their privilege plications of math in Native culture provide tools cal change, Nefertiti’s Daughters spotlights how grossly unknown fact which was only recently labeled an Stevens, a celebrated transgender musician with These reluctant heroes rekindle a lost connection by calling for a new conception of migration—one for increasing math literacy, highlighting the the iconic graffiti of Queen Nefertiti places her on “epidemic,” proving that veterans’ health and well-being his own demons to fight. (74 min) US to our most treasured resource and revive a cul- that better recognizes both the migrants’ human special connections between Navajo culture, the front lines in the ongoing fight for women’s is not just a military issue, but also, a humanitarian neces- SAT OCT 22 1:30 PM PA-MITCHELL PARK ture connected to seeds. (94 min) US rights and the history of the West. (35 min) Italy/US natural beauty, and mathematics. (59 min) US rights and freedoms in Egypt today. (40 min) Egypt sity. (38 min) US THU OCT 20 8:30 PM PA-AQUARIUS MON OCT 24 7:00 PM SF-NINTH STREET SAT OCT 22 12:00 PM PA-MITCHELL PARK THU OCT 27 4:40 PM SU-ANDERSON COLL THU OCT 20 6:30 PM PA-AQUARIUS

NON ASSISTANCE THE ODD COUPLE: A STORY OF TWO OUT RUN SIGNS OF HUMANITY SONIC SEA SONITA DIR: Frédéric Choffat TRIATHLETES DIR/PROD: S. Leo Chiang, Johnny Symons DIR: Tim Chumley, Willie Baronet DIR/PROD: Michelle Dougherty, Daniel Hinerfeld DIR: Rokhsareh Ghaem Maghami PROD: Nicolas Wadimoff DIR/PROD: Harleen Singh As leader of the world’s only LGBT political party, PROD: Willie Baronet, Judy Gass, Eamon Downey PROD: Gerd Haag, Rokhsareh Ghaem Maghami, Since 2011, thousands of migrants fleeing wars are try- Bemz Benedito dreams of being the first transgen- Sonic Sea tells the story of Ken Balcomb, a former US Aline Schmid, Kerstin Krieg ing to cross the Mediterranean Sea to reach Europe. While Jeff is a below the leg amputee and is a mentor to der woman in the Philippine Congress. In a predomi- For years, Willie Baronet has been fascinated by Navy officer who solved a tragic mystery involving a Sonita is an eighteen-year-old female, an undoc- governments are criminalizing migratory fluxes, some Parvin, who thinks that adhering to the appear- nantly Catholic nation, rallying for LGBT represen- the signs the homeless use encouraging one to mass stranding of whales in the Bahamas, and changed umented Afghan illegal immigrant living in the women and men are chartering boats to save the ship- ance of his Sikh faith is inherently disadvanta- tation in the halls of Congress is not an easy feat. help. His artistic eye and agency background the way we understand our impact on the ocean. In the poor suburbs of Tehran. She is a feisty, spirited, wrecked, hosting them on land, and filing criminal com- geous and holds him from competing as a triath- Bemz and her eclectic team of queer political war- saw more than a plea—he saw art, he saw life, darkness of the sea, whales depend on sound to mate, young woman who fights to live the way she plaints against States for failing to provide assistance. lete. Ironically both chose their challenges—Jeff riors must rethink traditional campaign strategies to he saw humanity. Embracing his desire to create find food, migrate, raise their young and defend against wants, as an artist, singer, and musician in spite Charles Heller participates in the creation of the Watch is an amputee by choice and Parvin is Sikh by amass support from unlikely places. But as outsiders, a ‘HeART’ project, Willie drives cross-country for predators. Over the last century, human activity has trans- of all her obstacles she confronts in Iran and her the Med platform, which documents the disappeared-at- choice. The movie is an attempt to bring to light will they have to compromise their political ideals in a month—all the while buying the signs of the formed the ocean’s acoustic habitat, challenging the abil- conservative patriarchal family. In harsh contrast sea migrant boat cases, and the emergency phone line Jeff and Parvin’s inspiring friendship and their pos- order to win? Out Run provides a unique look into homeless he meets along the way. Visiting with ity of whales and other marine life to prosper and survive. to her goal is the plan of her family— strongly AlarmPhone created for boats in distress. It is possible to itive attitude to achieve their dream of being a tri- the challenges LGBT people face as they transition the people from whom he buys the signs, Willie Narrated by Rachel McAdams and features the musician, advanced by her mother—to make her a bride save migrants at sea and necessary to address migrations athlete despite their daily struggles. (15 min) US into the mainstream and fight for dignity, legitimacy, meets a cross-section of America. Their common human rights and environmental activist, Sting. (61 min) and sell her to a new family. The price right now differently.(52 min) France/Italy/Malta/Spain/Switzerland SUN OCT 23 1:00 PM PA-MITCHELL PARK and acceptance. (75 min) Philippines/US ground—they have no home. (70 min) US Bahamas/Canada/Madagascar/Norway/US is about US$9,000. (91 min) Afghanistan/Iran FRI OCT 21 7:50 PM PA-MITCHELL PARK SAT OCT 29 1:30 PM SU-CUBBERLEY THU OCT 27 5:30 PM SU-ANDERSON COLL SUN OCT 30 5:40 PM SU-CUBBERLEY SAT OCT 22 8:15 PM PA-MITCHELL PARK 6 7 STOLEN YOUTH: POLITICAL PRISONER OF SURVIVING INTERNATIONAL BOULEVARD: SWIM FOR LIFE WEconomics: ITALY WELCOME TO REFUGEESTAN WHEN I WALK THE DICTATORSHIP DOMESTIC CHILD SEX TRAFFICKING DIR: Maya Lussier-Séguin, Pierre-Olivier François DIR: Mark Dworkin, Melissa Young DIR: Anne Poiret DIR/PROD: Jason DaSilva DIR: Joshua Dylan Mellars DIR/PROD: Sian Taylor Gowan PROD: Denis Poncet, Julie Chauvin, Alexandra Carr- PROD: Melissa Young PROD: Patrick Winocour, Juliette Guigon PROD: Joshua Dylan Mellars, Sofia Englund Brown Colcy, Maximilien Colcy Almost seventeen million people—refugees, dis- Diagnosed with multiple sclerosis, the filmmaker Driving along International Boulevard’s dark At 78, 88 or even 101 years old, they’re still deter- The Emilia-Romagna region in northern Italy has placed persons or migrants—live in camps. The decides to turn the camera towards himself and Former political prisoner Hector Marteau sur- streets, a mother recounts her own wild deter- mined to break new records in competitive swim- one of the highest concentrations of coopera- UNHCR and NGOs have developed ways of run- film his journey. A life-affirming film driven by a vived The Dirty War which saw 30,000 people mination to rescue her fifteen-year-old daughter ming. As they go about their training, they speak tive businesses in the developed world. The capi- ning them that are both efficient and absurd. young man’s determination to survive—and to numbered among the “Disappeared.” In Stolen from a sex trafficker ‘boyfriend.’ Night after night, about solitude and how to best avoid it, about the tal, Bologna is an industrial powerhouse, where This film explores the land of camps, from Kenya, make sense of a devastating disease through the Youth, the Buenos Aires resident re-visits the pris- combing the dangerous streets of East Oakland, hurdles of life and how they overcame them, about prosperity is widely shared, and cooperatives of to Tanzania, Jordan, and the Greece/Macedonia art of cinema. (83 min) US on where he was ‘detained’ forty years ago dur- she never gives up on her child. Switching to our society that neglects or dismisses our elders and teachers and social workers play a key role in the border, as well as at the UNHCR’s headquarters in FRI OCT 28 5:00 PM SU-MEDICAL ing the Argentine military dictatorship. daylight, a nonprofit advocate and survivor of how they deal with it all. Unassuming swimmers in provision of government services. Geneva. It reveals an immense system that com- (7 min) Argentina/Sweden/US sexual exploitation shares her fourteen years of their lane, until, to everyone’s surprise, they climb (19 min) Italy/US bines humanitarian concerns with the manage- TUE OCT 25 6:30 PM SF-NINTH STREET experience helping young victims get the help once again on the podium and break a new record for MON OCT 24 6:30 PM SF-NINTH STREET ment of undesirables who rich countries want to they so desperately need. (20 min) US France, Europe or the World. And that’s where we re- keep out. (71 min) France/Greece/Jordan/Kenya/ SAT OCT 22 6:00 PM PA-MITCHELL PARK discover their incredible “joie de vivre”. (52 min) France Macedonia/Sweden/Switzerland/Tanzania/UK FRI OCT 21 5:05 PM PA-MITCHELL PARK MON OCT 24 8:50 PM SF-NINTH STREET

THREADS TWO WORLDS AN UNDENIABLE VOICE WHERE TO INVADE NEXT WHERE WE STAND WHY ARE THE BEES DYING? DIR: Cathy Stevulak DIR/PROD: Maciej Adamek DIR: Price Arana, Adam Rothlein DIR: Michael Moore DIR/PROD: Kristine Stolakis DIR: Christoph Wuerzburger PROD: Leonard Hill, Cathy Stevulak, Catherine Masud PROD: Sharon Stone PROD: Michael Moore, Tia Lessin, Carl Deal PROD: Suedwestrundfunk Fernsehen Three people, two ways of perceiving reality and The story of a controversial group of Mormon Threads tells the story of Surayia Rahman, a pio- one family. The film is a portrait of deaf parents Sam Harris, believed to be one of the young- Just in time for election season, America’s favorite feminists fighting for women’s rights in The For years bees have been dying. All over the neering wife and mother who transforms a centu- and their twelve-year old daughter. Laura takes est to survive the camps during the Holocaust, political provocateur, Michael Moore, is back with Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints. Where world, silently and unobtrusively. The mysterious ries-old Bengali quilting tradition into a timeless art on the role of her father and mother’s mouths shares his amazing story of survival with philan- his new film, Where to Invade Next. It is an expansive, We Stand follows Abby Hansen, a stay-at-home death of the bees occupies scores of scientists at form. Over three decades, Surayia quietly lifts her- and ears helping them in everyday activities, thropist and activist Sharon Stone. (16 min) US hilarious and subversive comedy in which the Acad- mom turned vocal advocate for Ordain Women as the bee institutes and in the pesticide firms. Us- self and hundreds of other women out of economic such as, for example, buying coal. In the film she SAT OCT 29 4:30 PM SU-CUBBERLEY emy Award-winning director confronts the most she navigates the repercussions of her unpopular ing old-fashioned radar technology the professor and social hardship. Threads takes us on an intimate is also the medium that, with empathy, introduc- pressing issues facing America today and finds solu- activism against her church in her predominantly is looking into modern insecticides. Their impact journey into the heart of an artist and illuminates es the spectator to the daily life of people with tions in the most unlikely places — an eye-opening Mormon suburb. Where We Stand is also the com- is subtle and almost indiscernible. But beekeep- an unconventional path to dignity and indepen- disabilities. Not only is she the narrator, but also call to arms to capture the American Dream and re- ing of age story of Ordain Women as an organiza- ers say that it is disastrous. The toxins are every- dence. Threads brings together for the first time the transmitter of emotions that could not have store it in, of all places, America. tion itself—from a humble website to an interna- where. They are a bestseller for firms produc- a collection of Surayia’s life’s work, sourced from found an outlet to the world of the hearing with- (120 min) US tionally recognized activist group. (20 min) US ing agricultural chemicals—a worldwide market around the world. (30 min) Bangladesh/Canada/US out her assistance. (51 min) Poland SAT OCT 29 9:30 PM SU-CUBBERLEY SAT OCT 29 1:00 PM SU-CUBBERLEY worth billions. (45 min) Germany THU OCT 27 4:00 PM SU-ANDERSON COLL FRI OCT 28 4:00 PM SU-MEDICAL SUN OCT 30 4:50 PM SU-CUBBERLEY

UNDER THE GUN UNDER THE TURBAN VIOLINS OF HOPE - STRINGS OF THE WOMEN ARE THE ANSWER THE WRONG LIGHT XIUHTEZCATL & ITZCUAUHTLI: EARTH DIR: Stephanie Soechtig DIR: Satinder Garcha, Michael Rogers, Meghan Shea HOLOCAUST DIR/PROD: Fiona Cochrane DIR: Josie Swantek, Dave Adams GUARDIANS PROD: Katie Couric, Olivia Ahnemann PROD: Michael Rogers, Meghan Shea DIR/PROD: Lance Shultz PROD: Susan MacLaury, Josie Swantek DIR: Gerard Ungerman A young, modern Sikh family travels the globe meet- Narrated by Academy Award-winning actor Adrien Bro- The global population has passed the seven bil- PROD: Stacey Wear Despite a growing body count at the hands of ing with diverse communities of Sikhs to explore dy, Violins of Hope - Strings of the Holocaust, features Israe- lion mark and India is overtaking China as the This film explores the dark side of child advo- guns, and an outpouring of shock and outrage their roots and identity in Sikhism, the world’s fifth li master violinmaker Amnon Weinstein and his efforts most populous nation in the world, but one state cacy through the story of a charismatic “activist,” Two Aztec youth become champions for nature that comes with it, America has failed to respond largest religion. ‘What makes me a Sikh?’ This ques- to restore violins from the Holocaust. The collection of in southern India has found the solution. The Mickey Choothesa, who claims to rescue at-risk and play a major role in fighting for sustainabil- with meaningful action. What is keeping the two tion posed by nine-year-old Zara Garcha starts a violins represent an incredible history of suffering, cour- unique history of Kerala and ‘the Kerala Model’ Thai girls but is instead proven to have misrepre- ity. They are climate activists, hip-hop artists, and sides of this debate—those favoring stricter gun family’s journey to learn about their religion. The Gar- age and resiliency. They belonged to starving Jewish is outlined, using it as an example of achieving sented them for his own gain. In doing so, he joins a powerful voice on the front lines of a global control laws and Second Amendment purists cha family explores Sikhism, by visiting diverse Sikh refugees who carried them during the death marches in population control in developing countries with- Somaly Mam in Cambodia and Greg Mortensen youth-led environmental movement. (9 min) US like the NRA—from finding common ground? communities around the world. Visiting with maha- World War II Europe, to concentration camp victims who out coercion. (91 min) Australia/India in Afghanistan as perpetrators of exploitation and SAT OCT 22 11:30 AM PA-MITCHELL PARK Powerful with never-before-seen footage of the raja’s, cheesemakers, fashionistas, farmers and schol- were forced to play during the execution of tens of thou- FRI OCT 21 6:05 PM PA-MITCHELL PARK misrepresentation within the global aid industry. shooting in Aurora, Under the Gun ultimately ars to glean a better understanding of the world’s sands of innocent people, to desperate inhabitants of (78 min) Afghanistan/Cambodia/Thailand/US gives a human face to a crisis that is scaring the fifth largest religion. (89 min) Argentina/Canada/ the ghettos, and to those in the work camps where mil- SAT OCT 22 6:30 PM PA-MITCHELL PARK conscience of a nation. (106 min) US India/Italy/Singapore/UK/US lions died a slow death. (57 min) Israel/US SUN OCT 23 5:40 PM PA-MITCHELL PARK SUN OCT 23 1:30 PM PA-MITCHELL PARK SAT OCT 29 5:00 PM SU-CUBBERLEY 8 9 SCHEDULE THURSDAY 10.20 FRIDAY 10.21 SATURDAY 10.22 SUNDAY 10.23 MONDAY 10.24 TUESDAY 10.25 Palo Alto, Aquarius Theatre, Palo Alto, Mitchell Park Community Center, 3700 Palo Alto, Mitchell Park Community Center, 3700 Palo Alto, Mitchell Park Community Center, 3700 San Francisco, Ninth Street Independent Film San Francisco, Ninth Street Independent Film 430 Emerson Street Middlefield Road Middlefield Road Middlefield Road Center, 145 Ninth Street Center, 145 Ninth Street

Session 1 Session 2 Session 4 (UNAFF & Kids Program FREE Session 7 Session 10 Session 11 6:15 PM Opening words by Mayor of Palo Alto, 4:00 PM 01:05:12 THE LONGEST RACE (Ethiopia/ Admission; live jazz by local high school 1:00 PM THE ODD COUPLE: A STORY OF TWO 6:00 PM Reception with the filmmakers 6:00 PM Reception with the filmmakers Patrick Burt Kenya/Spain, 51 min) combo, The Blues By Five) TRIATHLETES (US, 15 min) 6:30 PM WEconomics: ITALY (Italy/US, 19 min) 6:30 PM STOLEN YOUTH: POLITICAL PRISONER 6:30 PM POSTER GIRL (US, 38 min) 5:05 PM SWIM FOR LIFE (France, 52 min) 11:15 AM THE LEARNING ALLIANCE 1:30 PM UNDER THE TURBAN (Argentina/ 7:00 PM LIMBO (Italy/US, 35 min) OF THE DICTATORSHIP (Argentina/ 7:20 PM APACHE 8 (US, 57 min) 6:05 PM WOMEN ARE THE ANSWER (Australia/ (Pakistan, 9 min) Canada/India/Italy/Singapore/UK/US, 7:45 PM DRESDEN REFUGE Sweden/US, 7 min) 8:30 PM SEED: THE UNTOLD STORY (US, 94 min) India, 91 min) 11:30 AM XIUHTEZCATL & ITZCUAUHTLI: EARTH 89 min) (Germany/Spain, 56 min) 6:50 PM HOW TO DEFUSE A BOMB: THE GUARDIANS (US, 9 min) 8:50 PM WELCOME TO REFUGEESTAN PROJECT CHILDREN STORY (Ireland/UK/ Session 3 12:00 PM NAVAJO MATH CIRCLES (US, 59 min) Session 8 (France/Greece/Jordan/Kenya/ US, 90 min) 7:50 PM NON ASSISTANCE (France/Italy/Malta/ 3:15 PM DUGMA - THE BUTTON Macedonia/Sweden/Switzerland/ 8:40 PM THE BRAINWASHING OF MY DAD Spain/Switzerland, 52 min) Session 5 (Norway/Syria, 58 min) Tanzania/UK, 71 min) (US, 90 min) 9:00 PM 7 DAYS IN SYRIA (Syria/US, 75 min) 1:30 PM REAL BOY (US, 74 min) 4:25 PM EL POETA (Mexico/US, 56 min) 2:50 PM PETALS IN THE DUST: THE ENDANGERED 5:40 PM UNDER THE GUN (US, 106 min) INDIAN GIRLS (Canada/India/US, 89 min) 7:20 PM Panel “Guns and Society” (FREE 4:30 PM Panel “Each Child is Precious” Admission) (FREE Admission) Session 9 Session 6 8:20 PM PAPER LANTERNS (Japan/US, 59 min) 6:00 PM SURVIVING INTERNATIONAL 9:30 PM FINDING OSCAR BOULEVARD: DOMESTIC CHILD SEX (Guatemala/US, 99 min) TRAFFICKING (US, 20 min) 6:30 PM THE WRONG LIGHT (Afghanistan/ Cambodia/Thailand/US, 78 min) 8:15 PM SONITA (Afghanistan/Iran, 91 min)

WEDNESDAY 10.26 THURSDAY 10.27 FRIDAY 10.28 SATURDAY 10.29 SUNDAY 10.30 East Palo Alto, Eastside College Preparatory Stanford University, Anderson Collection, 314 Stanford University, Stanford Medical School Stanford University, Cubberley Auditorium, 485 Stanford University, Cubberley Auditorium, 485 School, Eastside Theater, 1041 Myrtle Street Lomita Drive (Li Ka Shing Center Building) 291 Campus Drive, Lasuen Mall Lasuen Mall Room LK130 Session 12 (UNAFF in Schools FREE for Session 15 Session 19 Session 22 Students and Teachers) 4:00 PM THREADS (Bangladesh/US, 30 min) Session 17 1:00 PM WHERE WE STAND (US, 20 min) 1:00 PM CHILDREN DEPORTED: FARIDA 3:00 PM CODE OAKLAND (US, 22 min) 4:40 PM NEFERTITI’S DAUGHTERS 4:00 PM TWO WORLDS (Poland, 51 min) 1:30 PM OUT RUN (Philippines/US, 75 min) (Afghanistan/Norway, 16 min) 3:30 PM CAST FROM THE STORM (Egypt, 40 min) 5:00 PM WHEN I WALK (US, 83 min) 3:00 PM I VOTED (US, 76 min) 1:30 PM GUANTANAMO’S CHILD: OMAR KHADR (Australia, 72 min) 5:30 PM SIGNS OF HUMANITY (US, 70 min) (Canada/Cuba, 80 min) Session 18 Session 20 4:45 PM Panel “At the Crossroads of Civil Rights” 7:10 PM Panel “Arts for Social Change” 6:30 PM Reception with the filmmakers 4:30 PM AN UNDENIABLE VOICE (US, 16 min) Session 23 (FREE Admission) (FREE Admission) 7:00 PM CLINICA DE MIGRANTES: LIFE, LIBERTY 5:00 PM VIOLINS OF HOPE - STRINGS OF THE 3:10 PM THE COMPUTERS (US, 20 min) AND THE PURSUIT OF HAPPINESS HOLOCAUST (Israel/US, 57 min) 3:40 PM FEMINISM INSHALLAH: A HISTORY OF Session 13 Session 16 (US, 38 min) 6:10 PM BOY 23 (Brazil, 80 min) ARAB FEMINISM (Algeria/Egypt/ Stanford University, School of Education, CERAS 8:00 PM DETROIT: RENAISSANCE OF AMERICA 7:50 PM PAINTED NAILS (UV, Vietnam, 57 min) Lebanon/Morocco/Tunisia/Saudi Building, Room 101, 520 Galvez Mal (US, 21 min) Session 21 Arabia, 55 min) 4:00 PM THE EMPTY ROOM 8:30 PM A CONVERSATION WITH GREGORY PECK 9:00 PM Panel “The Intersection of Health and 7:50 PM AMONG THE BELIEVERS (Afghanistan/ (Belgium/France/Syria, 59 min) (US, 92 min) Ethics” (FREE Admission) Pakistan/US, 85 min) Session 24 5:10 PM ALL RISE (US, 96 min) 9:30 PM WHERE TO INVADE NEXT (US, 120 min) 4:50 PM WHY ARE THE BEES DYING? (Germany, 45 min) Session 14 5:40 PM SONIC SEA (Bahamas/Canada/ 6:45 PM Reception with the filmmakers Madagascar/Norway/US, 61 min) 7:15 PM LAST DAY OF FREEDOM (US, 32 min) 8:00 PM AGENTS OF CHANGE (US, 65 min) Session 25 6:50 PM HOW TO LET GO OF THE WORLD AND 9:15 PM Panel “Fear, Prejudice and Race” LOVE ALL THE THINGS CLIMATE CAN’T (FREE Admission) CHANGE (US, 127 min) 9:00 PM Awards Ceremony 9:30 PM Closing Night Party Music by Potential Jazz Ensemble Sponsored by Garden Court Hotel

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If you w: www.7daysinsyriafilm.com e: [email protected] w: www.lastdayoffreedom.net e: [email protected] VIOLINS OF HOPE - STRINGS OF THE are interested in having docs through the w: www.explore.org/videos/player/ w: www.seedthemovie.com HOLOCAUST CAW Program at your event or in your AGENTS OF CHANGE detroit-the-renaissance-of-america THE LEARNING ALLIANCE e: [email protected] e: [email protected] e: [email protected] SIGNS OF HUMANITY w: www.violinsofhopecle.org dorm, please email: [email protected]. w: www.agentsofchangefilm.com DRESDEN REFUGE e: [email protected] e: [email protected] LIMBO w: www.signsofhumanity.org WEconomics: ITALY ALL RISE w: www.dss2016.eu/en/dss2016eu/peace/ e: [email protected] e: [email protected] e: [email protected] europa-transit w: www.crosscurrentpictures.com SONIC SEA w: www.bullfrogfilms.com w: www.allrisemovie.com e: [email protected] DUGMA - THE BUTTON NAVAJO MATH CIRCLES w: www.sonicsea.org WELCOME TO REFUGEESTAN AMONG THE BELIEVERS e: [email protected] e: [email protected] e: [email protected] e: [email protected] w: www.nfi.no w: www.navajomathcirclesfilm.com SONITA w: www.quarkprod.com w: www.amongthebelieversfilm.com e: [email protected] EL POETA NEFERTITI’S DAUGHTERS w: www.wmm.com WHEN I WALK APACHE 8 e: [email protected] e: [email protected] e: [email protected] e: [email protected] w: www.loteriafilms.com/2012/el-poeta w: www.nefertitisdaughters.com STOLEN YOUTH: POLITICAL PRISONER w: www.wheniwalk.com w: www.apache8.com OF THE DICTATORSHIP THE EMPTY ROOM NON ASSISTANCE e: [email protected] WHERE TO INVADE NEXT BOY 23 e: [email protected] e: [email protected] w: www.abuelaluna.com/stolenyouth e: [email protected] e: [email protected] w: www.derives.be/la-chambre-vide w: www.non-assistance.lefilm.ch w: www.wheretoinvadenext.com w: www.menino23.com.br/en SURVIVING INTERNATIONAL FEMINISM INSHALLAH: A HISTORY OF THE ODD COUPLE: A STORY OF TWO BOULEVARD: DOMESTIC CHILD SEX WHERE WE STAND THE BRAINWASHING OF MY DAD ARAB FEMINISM TRIATHLETES TRAFFICKING e: [email protected] Encouraged by overwhelmingly posi- e: [email protected] e: [email protected] e: [email protected] e: [email protected] w: www.kristinestolakis.com tive response from our audience and w: www.thebrainwashingofmydad.com w: www.wmm.com/filmcatalog/pages/ w: www.kaurfilms.com w: www.SurvivingInternationalBoulevard. the media, we continue with year c890.shtml com WHY ARE THE BEES DYING? round screenings through our UNAFF CAST FROM THE STORM OUT RUN e: [email protected] e: [email protected] FINDING OSCAR e: [email protected] SWIM FOR LIFE w: www.swr.de Traveling Film Festival, which has w: www.castfromthestorm.com e: [email protected] w: www.outrunmovie.com e: [email protected] taken place in San Francisco, Berkeley, w: www.findingoscar.com w: www.facebook.com/troisiemenage WOMEN ARE THE ANSWER Monterey, Santa Cruz, Davis, CHILDREN DEPORTED: FARIDA PAINTED NAILS e: [email protected] Saratoga, Sonoma, Sebastopol, San e: [email protected] GUANTANAMO’S CHILD: OMAR KHADR e: [email protected] THREADS w: www.f-reel.com w: www.nfi.no e: [email protected] w: www.paintednailsmovie.com e: [email protected] Diego, Las Vegas, Los Angeles, Salt w: www.whitepinepictures.com/ w: www.kanthathreads.com THE WRONG LIGHT Lake City, Honolulu, Philadelphia, CLINICA DE MIGRANTES: LIFE, LIBERTY guantanamos-child/?v=7516fd43adaa PAPER LANTERNS e: [email protected] Chicago, Washington DC, New York, AND THE PURSUIT OF HAPPINESS e: [email protected] TWO WORLDS w: www.thewronglight.com Burlington, Bellevue, Miami, La e: [email protected] HOW TO DEFUSE A BOMB: THE PROJECT w: www.paperlanternfilm.com e: [email protected] w: www.thirdpartyfilms.com CHILDREN STORY w: www.polishdocs.pl/en/films/1697 XIUHTEZCATL & ITZCUAUHTLI: EARTH Crosse, Fryeburg, Denver, Houston, e: [email protected] PETALS IN THE DUST: THE ENDANGERED GUARDIANS Durham at Duke University, New CODE OAKLAND w: www.alleycats.tv INDIAN GIRLS AN UNDENIABLE VOICE e: [email protected] Haven at Yale University, Waukesha at e: [email protected] e: [email protected] e: [email protected] w: www.RespectfulRevolution.org w: www.teached.org HOW TO LET GO OF THE WORLD AND w: www.petalsinthedust.com w: www.anundeniablevoice.com University of Wisconsin, Boston and LOVE ALL THE THINGS CLIMATE CAN’T Cambridge at Harvard University and THE COMPUTERS CHANGE POSTER GIRL UNDER THE GUN internationally in Paris, Venice, e: [email protected] e: [email protected] e: [email protected] e: [email protected] Belgrade, Phnom Penh and Abu w: www.eniacprogrammers.org/ w: www.howtoletgomovie.com w: www.postergirlthemovie.com w: www.cargofilm-releasing.com/home/ documentary-info Dhabi. 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