Bellingham Human Rights Film Festival

Thursday 2/17 7pm & 9pm - Pickford Cinema Center 1416 Cornwall

Budrus (2009/Israel-USA/ 58 min) Ayed Morrar and his young daughter organize Palestinians and Israelis, in an inspiring nonviolent movement to save their village from destruction by Israel’s Separation Barrier. Reception between shows @ Allied Arts 1418 Cornwall Ave.

Friday 2/18 7pm - Fairhaven College Auditorium

Crude (2009/USA/105 min) A disturbing inside look at the infamous $27 billion “Amazon Chernobyl” case and the courageous lawsuit by tens of thousands of Ecuadorans against Chevron’s contamination of the Ecuadorean Amazon. Facilitators: Seth Vidana, Director, WWU Office of Sustainability; Lauren Squires, Director, WWU Environmental and Sustainability Programs

Saturday 2/19 7pm - Fairhaven College Auditorium

The Power of the Powerless ( 2010, Czech, 78 min) Examines the struggle for freedom during the communist era in Czechoslovakia culminating in the student-led movement that sparks the 1989 bloodless Velvet Revolution and catapults black-listed playwright, Vaclav Havel, into the presidency. Facilitators: Cory Taylor, Director; Darin Nellis, Producer

Sunday 2/20 12-5pm Matinees - Fairhaven College Auditorium

12pm The World According to Monsanto (2009/France/109 min) An investigation of the giant agricultural products company, Monsanto. The film reveals the effects of Roundup, bovine growth hormone, and genetically modified seeds and the tactics of a company intent on dominating world agriculture. Facilitator: Community Food Co-op

2:15pm Orang Rimba (2008/UK/23 min) The way of life of this small group of indigenous Indonesian forest dwellers is threatened by agricultural and industrial forces.

3:00pm Deep Down (2009/USA/55 min) Examines an Appalachian community’s conflicts over a proposed mountaintop removal coal mine. Facilitator: Alex Ramel, Sustainable Connections

4:15pm Turtle World (1998/USA/9min) This animated short follows a lone sea turtle traveling through space carrying a verdant world on its back, in a poignant parable about sustainability.

Sunday 2/20 7pm - Fairhaven College Auditorium

Enemies of the People (2010/UK-Cambodia/94 min) The deaths of hundreds of thousands in the Killing Fields of Cambodia remain unexplained, until now. This film tells the first person stories of those who perpetuated the massacres, including the number two man to Pol Pot. Facilitator: Vets for Peace

Monday 2/21 7pm - Fairhaven College Auditorium

Tapped (2009/ USA/76min) An unflinching examination of the unregulated and unseen bottled water industry that aims to privatize and sell back water, which becomes a commodity rather than a human right. Facilitator: Julie Shure, Students for Sustainable Water

Tuesday 2/22 7pm - Fairhaven College Auditorium

A Small Act (2010/USA/88 min) An inspiring tale of a young Kenyan whose life changes drastically when his education is sponsored by a Swedish stranger. Years later, he replicates the kindness he once received. Facilitator: Tim Costello

Tuesday 2/22 7pm - Bellingham High School Library

Out in the Silence (2009/USA/65) The uplifting story of a small town confronted with a firestorm of controversy ignited by a same-sex wedding announcement and the brutal bullying of a gay teen. Facilitators: Gay Straight Alliance (GSA), Bellingham High School Student Group

Wednesday 2/23 7pm - Fairhaven College Auditorium

Poto Mitan (2009/USA-Haiti/50min) Centered on the personal stories of five courageous Haitian woman workers, the film gives the neo-liberal global economy a human face and shows the impact in inhumane working conditions, poverty, health, and education. Facilitator: Solange Pierre, Haitian Human Rights Activist in the Dominican Republic

Wednesday 2/23 7pm - Bellingham Technical College, G Building

Redlight (2010/USA/71 min) Sex trafficking of children is a growing worldwide problem. This remarkable, disturbing film looks into the lives of young Cambodian victims and two forceful advocates.

Pornland (2010/USA/.45 min) A look at the shocking prevalence of child sex trafficking in Portland. Facilitator: Retired Sgt. Doug Justus

Wednesday 2/23 7pm - Bellingham High School Library

Papers (2009/USA/100 min) A story about 65,000 undocumented youth and the challenges they face after graduating from high school. Facilitators: IAM (Inspiring a Movement), Bellingham High School Student Group

Wednesday 2/23 6:30pm - Lummi Youth Academy

No Tomorrow (2009/USA/84 min) A film within a film becomes important in the decision for capital punishment of an accused killer. Death penalty experts address the question of whether the state has the right to kill.

Thursday 2/24 7pm - Fairhaven College Auditorium

Other Side of Immigration (2009/USA/55 min) A subtle, thought-provoking film that asks why Mexicans come to the U.S., what happens to the families and communities they leave behind, and challenges audiences to more creative and effective immigration solutions.

Which Way Home (2009/USA/62 min) Shows immigration through the eyes of children who, with enormous courage and resourcefulness, face harrowing dangers en route to the U.S. on a freight train they call “the beast”. Facilitators: James Loucky, Anthropology professor, WWU; Roy Germano by Skype, Director of “Other Side of Immigration”

Thursday 2/24 7pm - Northwest Indian College Log Building

Tapped (2009/ USA/76min) An unflinching examination of the unregulated and unseen bottled water industry that aims to privatize and sell back water, which becomes a commodity rather than a human right.

Thursday 2/24 7pm - Sehome High School Theater

Out in the Silence (2009/USA/65) The uplifting story of a small town confronted with a firestorm of controversy ignited by a same-sex wedding announcement and the brutal bullying of a gay teen.

Green (2010/France/ 48min) A moving film that stirs the hearts of people to act after knowing of the destruction of the Indonesian rainforest. Facilitator: Global Awareness Club

Friday 2/25 7pm - Fairhaven College Auditorium

Redlight (2010/USA/71 min) Sex trafficking of children is a growing worldwide problem. This remarkable, disturbing film looks into the lives of young Cambodian victims and two forceful advocates. Facilitator: Midori Takagi

Friday 2/25 7pm - Northwest Indian College Log Building

Turtle World (1998/USA/9min) This animated short follows a lone sea turtle traveling through space carrying a verdant world on its back, in a poignant parable about sustainability.

Crude (2009/USA/105 min) A disturbing look at the infamous $27 billion “Amazon Chernobyl” case and the courageous lawsuit by thousands of Ecuadorans against Chevron’s contamination of the Amazon.

Saturday 2/26 12-5pm Matinees - Fairhaven College Auditorium

12pm Tony and Janina’s American Wedding (2010/USA/83 min) Special Preview Screening. Living in the US for 18 years, with a son and a business, Janina is deported to Poland, severely disrupting her family. Their struggle speaks to the federal immigration bureaucracy.

1:45pm A Thousand Suns (USA/28 min) Explores the worldview of the Gama people of Africa’s Rift Valley. Their concepts of interconnectedness and sustainability are contrasted with the modern world's separation from and superiority over nature.

2:30pm No Tomorrow (2009/USA/84 min) A film within a film becomes important in the decision for capital punishment of an accused killer. Death penalty experts address the question of whether the state has the right to kill. Facilitator: Hannah Stone

4:15pm Pornland (2010/USA/45 min) A look at the shocking prevalence of child sex trafficking in Portland. Facilitator: Retired Sgt. Doug Justus

Saturday 2/26 7pm - Fairhaven College Auditorium

Cultures of Resistance (2010/USA/ 72 min) A groundbreaking exploration of slum kids in Rio’s favelas, poets in Colombia, Tuareg musicians in Mali, rappers in Iran, dancers in Rwanda who creatively resist war and build peace, justice, and sustainability. Celebration with: Bellingham Human Rights Film Festival Committee