Documentaries

In Colombia there are 102 aboriginal groups, one-third of which are in danger of extinction because of ongoing conflicts. Trapped in a protracted predicament financed by the drug trade, indigenous women are resourcefully leading and creating transformations imbued with hope. We Women Warriors bears witness to rights abuses and interweaves character-driven stories about female empowerment and non-violent resistance, unshakable courage, and unyielding faith in the survival of indigenous culture.

In this funny and moving first-film from director Abdel Messeeh, a professed secularist ventures to Cairo for witnesses to the famous 1968 sighting of the Virgin Mary in Zeitoun. He’s hampered by the Coptic community’s reluctance to talk - not to mention his absent producer’s unwillingness to commit more funds. His traditionalist mother has expressly forbidden Abdel to film her relatives inUpper Egypt, he ignores her wishes.

Directors Christopher Smith & Merete Mueller Attending
While the average size of the American home as doubled in the last forty years, one couple set out to make a small, one-room home, all on their own. Documentarians and first-time homeowners Christopher Smith and Merete Mueller examine the ‘tiny house’ movement that was born as a response to ‘McMansion’ culture, as preparation to build their own home.

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Stuck is an award-winning documentary film that uncovers the real-life stories of children and parents navigating a roller coaster of bureaucracy on their journeys through the international adoption system, each filled with hope, elation – and sometimes heartbreak.

German-Turkish director Fatih Akin returns to his grandparents’ hometown, Çamburnu, to find the Turkish government has turned the neighboring area into a giant provincial landfill. Akin interviews locals and collects hundreds of photos over five years, documenting the impact this ecological mess has had on a Black Sea community that depends so heavily on fishing and tea leaf harvests for its livelihood. Polluting Paradise is a heartbreaking documentary that perfectly illustrates globalization’s dangerous side effects.

*Minnesota-based Director Bill Eigen Attending*
55 years ago, Pete Seeger didn’t name names at the McCarthy hearings and was sentenced to ten years in prison. Out on appeal, blacklisted, watched by the FBI, he buys an old camera. With his wife Toshi, they start filming their musician friends. After several years of making small films, they decide to take the family around- the-world to film musicians in the most remote corners

Director Jyllian Gunther Attending!

*Director Emilio Maillé Attending*
Multiple Visions (The Crazy Machine) documents the work of one of the keenest eyes in film history, Mexican cinematographer Gabriel Figueroa, who’s responsible for many of the lasting images from Mexico’s golden age of cinema. From 1932 through 1983, Figueroa worked for such greats as John Ford, Howard Hawks and Luis Buñuel. While many cinematographers of today appear to praise the master, Multiple Visions works best when it lets Figueroa’s films play for long stretches uninterrupted, allowing the work to speak for itself.

Left with few options, Juma and Latso leave Beijing for home, a remote village in the foothills of the Himalayas. But home is no longer what it was, as growing exposure to the modern world changes the provocative traditions the Mosuo have built around their belief that marriage is an attack on the family. Determined to keep their mother and siblings out of poverty, Latso sacrifices her dream of an education and stays home to farm, while Juma leaves to try her luck in the city.

Post-film discussion led by Matthias Falter, Doctoral Research Fellow at the Center for Austrian Studies