Social Justice Film Festival - La Troisième Langue
Wed, Oct 19, 2016 at 8pm
Dalit Bloch, a Swiss-Jewish drama teacher, returns to Israel, the country of her birth, after 40 years to lead a theatre project with Arabic and Jewish teenagers. Can these young people change the future of Israel and Palestine?
Supported by Voices for Palestine
(Benno Hungerbühler, 84 min, Switzerland/Palestine/Israel)
Screens With:
film forever
Shot entirely on Super 8, film forever is an experimental short film about a young girl who discovers the beauty of filmmaking. It’s designed to encourage women and minority filmmakers to shoot on film.
(Mike McGuirk, 4 min, USA)
Truth Seekers
Narrated by students, their teacher, a survivor, education experts, and public historians, Truth Seekers depicts a student-driven social justice movement that called for courses and history books in Calif. schools to include an account of the 1930s “Mexican Repatriation.”
(Lani Cupchoy, 21 min, USA)
