Bellingham Human Rights Film Festival

Hey we have just finalized our films for this year and the dates/locations that each one will be shown.

Here is the list...

All film showings are 7:00pm at the Fairhaven College Auditorium, WWU, unless otherwise indicated.

February 17: Budrus. 7:00 and 9:00 at Pickford Film Center. A Palestinian village’s non-violent opposition to Israel’s barrier wall.

February 18: Crude. Ecuadorans file a lawsuit against Chevron for contamination of their lands.

February 19: The Power of the Powerless. The 1989 Czechoslovakian popular revolt against the USSR.

February 20 Matinees:

12:00: The World According to Monsanto. Investigation of practices of agricultural company, Monsanto.

2:15: Orang Rimba. Corporation threatens culture of indigenous Indonesian forest dwellers.

3:00: Deep Down. A community makes a choice when mountaintop coal removal comes.

4:15: Turtle World. Short animated animal parable about sustainability.

February 20: Enemies of the People. Cambodian Khmer Rouge killers talk for the first time.

February 21: TAPPED. Describes various effects of the bottled water industry.

February 22: A Small Act. A Kenyan scholarship winner later funds a scholarship program

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February 22: Out in the Silence. Bellingham High School Library. Small town’s harassment of a gay high school student.

February 23: Poto Mitan. Five Haitian women try to survive in the world economy.

February 23: Papers. Challenges of undocumented youth who turn 18.

February 24: Other Side of Immigration. A look at Mexicans’ decisions to come to the U.S. Which Way Home. Immigrant children travel alone by freight trains to U.S.

February 24: TAPPED and A Thousand Suns. Northwest Indian College. Explores the sustainable worldview of Africa’s Goma people.

February 24: Redlight. Bellingham Technical College. Working against trafficking of Cambodian children for sex. Pornland. Anti-trafficking work comes home to Portland.

February 24: Out in the Silence. Sehome High School Theater. Green. Destruction of the Indonesian rain forest for palm oil.

February 25: Redlight.

February 25: Crude and Turtle World. Northwest Indian College.

February 26 Matinees:

12:00: Tony and Janina’s American Wedding. Special Preview Screening. Resident couple deals with U S immigration bureaucracy.

1:45: A Thousand Suns.

2:30: No Tomorrow. Considers many aspects of a capital punishment decision.

4:30: Pornland,

February 26: Cultures of Resistance. Worldwide examples of creative resistance to war and injustice