Sustainability Series: FOOD CHAINS

Watch Trailer Director: Sanjay Rawal
Writer(s): Erin Barnett and Sanjay Rawal
Cast: Eve Ensler, Barry Estabrook and Dolores Huerta

There is more interest in food these days than ever, yet there is very little interest in the hands that pick it. Farmworkers who form the foundation of our fresh food industry are routinely abused and robbed of wages. In extreme cases they can be beaten, sexually harassed or even enslaved – all within the borders of the United States. Food Chains exposes the human cost in our food supply and the complicity of the supermarket industry. Supermarkets earn $4 trillion globally and have tremendous power over the agricultural system. Over the past 3 decades they have drained revenue from their supply chain leaving farmworkers in poverty and forced to work under subhuman conditions. Yet supermarkets take no responsibility for this.

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Sponsored by University College, Alden Library, Environmental Studies, Sustainability Theme: Arts and Sciences.

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Running Time: 83 Minutes83 MIN
Rating: Unrated
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Transcultural Encounters & Border Crossings: Children in No Man’s Land – One Day Only Saturday, February 21st

Watch Trailer Director: Anayansi Prado

 

CHILDREN IN NO MAN’S LAND is a documentary that uncovers the current plight of the 100,000 unaccompanied minors entering the United States every year. This film gives this timely political debate about the U.S.-Mexico border a human face by exploring the story of Maria de Jesus (13) and her cousin Rene (12) as they attempt to cross the US/Mexico border alone to reunite with their mothers in the Midwest. Focusing on minors crossing through the Sonora Desert area in Nogales, Arizona, this film explores every detail of these children’s journey as well as the journeys of other children the filmmakers meet on the way.

CHILDREN IN NO MAN’S LAND uncovers in an intimate and personal way where they are coming from, what their journeys have been like and how they’ve gone about it, through to the arrival at their destination — their new home, The United States of America.

Film introductions by professors Katarzyna Marciniak and Michael Gillespie.

Sponsored by The College of Arts and Sciences, Making and Breaking the Law Theme, and the Wealth and Poverty Theme.

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Running Time: 39 Minutes39 MIN

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Sustainability Series: GROUNDSWELL RISING

Watch Trailer Director: Renard Cohen

GROUNDSWELL RISING, PROTECTING OUR CHILDREN’S AIR AND WATER the new documentary from Emmy Award-winning Resolution Pictures, captures the passion of people engaged in a David and Goliath confrontation. They stand together, challenging a system that promotes profit over health. We meet mothers, fathers, scientists, doctors, farmers and people from all sides of the political spectrum taking a hard look at energy extraction techniques not proven to be safe. With the Oil and Gas industry’s expansion of fracking seen as a moral issue, this provocative documentary tracks a people’s movement, a groundswell rising towards reason and sensitivity, to protect life, today and tomorrow.

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Sponsored by University College, Alden Library, Environmental Studies, Sustainability Theme: Arts and Sciences.

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Running Time: 80 Minutes80 MIN
Rating: Unrated
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Transcultural Encounters & Border Crossings: Unveiled – One Day Only Saturday, March 14th

Watch Trailer Director: Angelina Maccarone
Writer(s): Judith Kaufmann and Angelina Maccarone
Cast: Jasmin Tabatabai, Navid Navid and Bernd Tauber

Fabria (Jasmin Tabatabai), prosecuted in Iran because of her love for a women, flees to Germany. But, her application for asylum is turned down. Her desperate prospects are improved by the suicide of her fellow-inmate Siamak: she assumes his identity and using his temporary permit of sojourn, is send to a province village. At first glance her survival seems to be assured, but in the refugee home she is obliged to uphold her male disguise in cramped quarters and a single mistake could blow up her cover. In order to pay for forged documents, she takes an illegal job in a sauerkraut factory, where she meets Anne, who is very solicitous about Siamak’s well-being and derives some kind of pleasure from the strange foreigner. While spending more and more time together, they become dangerously close and Anne begins to suspect Fariba’s true identity.

“A serious and well-paced drama.” – John Anderson, Newsday

Film introductions by professors Katarzyna Marciniak and Michael Gillespie.

Sponsored by The College of Arts and Sciences, Making and Breaking the Law Theme, and the Wealth and Poverty Theme.

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Running Time: 97 Minutes97 MIN
Rating: Unrated

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Transcultural Encounters & Border Crossings: Sleep Dealer – One Day Only Saturday, March 21st

Watch Trailer Director: Alex Rivera
Writer(s): Alex Rivera and David Riker
Cast: Luis Fernando Peña, Leonor Varela and Jacob Vargas

When Memo Cruz’s family is victim of a drone attack he finds himself with no option but to head towards the U.S./Mexico border, but migrant workers cannot cross. Memo ends up in a strange digital factory in Mexico where he connects his body to a robot in America. Memo’s search for a better future leads him to love, loss, and a confrontation with a mysterious figure from his past.

“Adventurous, ambitious and ingeniously futuristic, Sleep Dealer is a welcome surprise.” – Kenneth Turan, Los Angeles Times

“Sleep Dealer is an unusually thoughtful science fiction film, using the speculative energy of the genre to explore some troubling and complex contemporary issues.” – A.O. Scott, New York Times

Film introductions by professors Katarzyna Marciniak and Michael Gillespie.

Sponsored by The College of Arts and Sciences, Making and Breaking the Law Theme, and the Wealth and Poverty Theme.

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Running Time: 90 Minutes90 MIN
PG-13 Rated

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Sustainability Series: WILLIAM AND THE WINDMILL

Watch Trailer Director: Ben Nabors
Cast: William Kamkwamba and Tom Rielly

The story of William Kamkwamba, a remarkable young man from a remote village north of Malawi’s capital city. Forced to drop out of school due to lack of funds, William turned to self-education and, after seeing a picture of a windmill in a textbook, decided to build one to power his family’s home in order to rescue them from famine.

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Sponsored by University College, Alden Library, Environmental Studies, Sustainability Theme: Arts and Sciences.

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Running Time: 88 Minutes88 MIN
Rating: Unrated
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Transcultural Encounters & Border Crossings: Paradise Now – One Day Only Saturday, April 11th

Watch Trailer Director: Hany Abu-Assad
Writer(s): Hany Abu-Assad and Bero Beyer
Cast: Kais Nashif, Ali Suliman and Lubna Azabal

 

PARADISE NOW follows two Palestinian childhood friends who have been recruited for a strike on Tel Aviv and focuses on their last days together. When they are intercepted at the Israeli border and separated from their handlers, a young woman who discovers their plan causes them to reconsider their actions.

“takes away both your breath and your ability to get out of your seat.” – Jack Matthews, New York Daily News

“A risk-taking but enlightening film that takes the novel approach of examining the Israeli-Arab impasse from the perspective of the Palestinians.” – Bill Muller, Arizona Republic

“A powerful, poignant, provocative drama, it gets its strength from its dispassion, from an uncompromising determination to explain rather than justify or condemn, to put a human face on incomprehensible acts.” – Kenneth Turran, Los Angeles Times

Film introductions by professors Katarzyna Marciniak and Michael Gillespie.

Sponsored by The College of Arts and Sciences, Making and Breaking the Law Theme, and the Wealth and Poverty Theme.

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Running Time: 90 Minutes90 MIN
PG-13 Rated

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Sustainability Series: OIL & WATER

Watch Trailer Director: Laurel Spellman Smith and Francine Strickwerda
Writer(s): Laurel Spellman Smith and Francine Strickwerda
Cast: David Portiz and Hugo Lucitante

OIL & WATER follows two boys coming of age in the middle of one of the world’s worst toxic disasters. Hugo fights for the survival of his Amazonian tribe, while David attempts to revolutionize the oil industry. Their journeys lead them to explore a more just future for people around the world born with oil beneath their feet

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Sponsored by University College, Alden Library, Environmental Studies, Sustainability Theme: Arts and Sciences.

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Running Time: 77 Minutes77 MIN
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42nd Athens International Film + Video Festival SNEAK PEEK! Song of the Sea

Watch Trailer Director: Tomm Moore
Cast: Brendan Gleeson, Fionnula Flanagan
Language: English

From the creators of the Academy Award®-nominated The Secret of Kells comes a breathtakingly gorgeous, hand-drawn masterpiece. Based on the Irish legend of the Selkies, Song of the Sea tells the story of the last seal-child, Saoirse, and her brother Ben, who go on an epic journey to save the world of magic and discover the secrets of their past. Pursued by the owl witch Macha and a host of ancient and mythical creatures, Saoirse and Ben race against time to awaken Saoirse’s powers and keep the spirit world from disappearing forever. As enthralling for adults as it is for children young and old, Song of the Sea is a wonder of magical storytelling and visual splendor that is destined to become a classic.

“A blissfully beautiful journey into Irish folklore”-Indiewire.com

“Director Tomm Moore applies his dazzling hand-drawn style to another tale inspired by Irish legend[…] cementing his place as a protector of not only Celtic culture, but of classic toon forms as well”-Variety

ACADEMY AWARD® NOMINEE

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Running Time: 93 minutes93 MIN
PG Rated

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Inherent Vice: Last Day Thursday, February 26th

Watch Trailer Director: Paul Thomas Anderson
Writer(s): Paul Thomas Anderson, Thomas Pynchon
Cast: Joaquin Phoenix, Josh Brolin, Owen Wilson
Awards: Nominated for two Academy Awards: Best Writing, Screenplay Based on Material Previously Produced or Published and Best Achievement in Costume Design

INHERENT VICE is the seventh feature from Paul Thomas Anderson and the first ever film adaption of a Thomas Pynchon novel. When private eye Doc Sportello’s ex-old lady suddenly out of nowhere shows up with a story about her current billionaire land developer boyfriend whom she just happens to be in love with, and a plot by his wife and her boyfriend to kidnap that billionaire and throw him in a looney bin … well, easy for her to say. It’s the tail end of the psychedelic ’60s and paranoia is running the day and Doc knows that “love” is another of those words going around at the moment, like “trip” or “groovy,” that’s being way too overused — except this one usually leads to trouble. With a cast of characters that includes surfers, hustlers, dopers and rockers, a murderous loan shark, LAPD Detectives, a tenor sax player working undercover, and a mysterious entity known as the Golden Fang, which may only be a tax dodge set up by some dentists … Part surf noir, part psychedelic romp — all Thomas Pynchon.

“INHERENT VICE unfolds so organically, so gracefully and with such humanistic grace notes that even at its most preposterous, viewers will find themselves nodding along, sharing the buzz the filmmaker has so skillfully created.” — Ann Hornaday, Washington Post

“Joaquin Phoenix and the terrific acting ensemble that joins him in this pot-infused ’70s-era beach noir create such a good buzz you can almost get a contact high from watching.” — Betsy Sharkey, Los Angeles Times

“In its graceful superimpositions and its use of water to evoke a more idyllic time (particularly in a rainy flashback set to Neil Young), INHERENT VICE is very much a companion piece to THE MASTER.” — Ben Kenigsberg, The A.V. Club

“A hilariously louche and ramshackle psychedelic noir, INHERENT VICE is an audacious stylistic leap for Anderson, but his risks pay off beautifully. It’s an amazing work, capturing the heady vibe of Thomas Pynchon’s novel while stumbling into in the great cinematic lineage of California noir.” — Craig Williams, CineVue

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Running Time: 148 minutes148 MIN
R Rated

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