Title: Yai Wanonabalewa: The Enemy God
Location: Dominican Univesity of California
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Description: dir. Christopher Bessette, 2008, Belize / USA / Venezuela, 100 min.
Start Time: 20:00
Date: 2008-11-20
End Time: 21:45
In the Amazon jungle of Venezuela, Shake reached the highest honor of a Yanomamö shaman by learning to send the Spirits to destroy his enemies. But this power [...]

Title: Uprooted
Location: M.A.C.L.A. Castellano Playhouse (MACLA)
Description: dir. Juan Mejia, 2007, Colombia / USA, 43 min.
Start Time: 18:00
Date: 2008-11-12
End Time: 20:00

The film explores the plight of the more than 1 million Afro-Colombians violently displaced since 1990 in Colombia. At the center of Uprooted is Noris, a mother and community leader forced to relocate in 1996 by [...]

Title: Uprooted
Location: Brava Theater for Women in the Arts
Description: dir. Juan Mejia, 2007, Colombia / USA, 43 min.
Start Time: 12:00
Date: 2008-11-09
End Time: 14:00

The film explores the plight of the more than 1 million Afro-Colombians violently displaced since 1990 in Colombia. At the center of Uprooted is Noris, a mother and community leader forced to relocate [...]

Title: The Man of Two Havanas
Location: Mission Cultural Center for Latino Arts
Description: dir. Vivien Lesnik Weisman, 2007, Cuba / USA, 96 min.
Start Time: 20:15
Date: 2008-11-15
End Time: 23:15

This award winning documentary recalls the Cuban Revolution through the voice of the daugher of journalist Max Lesnik, once a friend of Fidel Castro who fled to Miami. The [...]

Title: The Golden AgeLocation: Camera 12 Downtown San JoseDescription: dir. Phil Tuckett, Scott Duncan, 2007, USA, 92 min.
Start Time: 13:00Date: 2008-11-23End Time: 15:00

Title: Ragin Epu Mapu / Between Two Worlds: Voices of the Elders and the Youth
Location: Mission Cultural Center
Description: dir. Ariel Lopez, 2008, Chile / USA, 51 min.
Start Time: 15:00
Date: 2008-15-07
End Time: 16:00

Between Two Worlds is an informative look into the lives of the Mapuche peoples of Southern Chile as they struggle to retain their Indigenous [...]

Title: Quien soy yo? Los ninos encontrados de Argentina / Who Am I? The Found Children of Argentina
Location: San Jose State University
Description: dir. Estela Bravo, 2007, Argentina / United Kingdom / USA, 75 min.
Start Time: 18:00
Date: 2008-11-12
End Time: 20:00

Acclaimed documentarian Estela Bravo documents several of the 500 children born to “disappeared” parents and then [...]

Title: Que viva la lucha!
Location: Canada College
Description: dir. Gustavo Vazquez, 2007, USA, 54 min.
Start Time: 11:00
Date: 2008-11-11
End Time: 11:54

A peek inside Tijuana’s historic Lucha Libre arena reveals how the universal themes of good versus evil—the underdog beating the bully, the noble hero outwitting the corrupt nemesis—all play out daily to generations of fans in [...]

Title: Intimidad / Intimacy
Location: Mission Cultural Center for Latino Arts
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Description: dir. Ashley Sabin, David Redmon, 2008, Mexico / USA, 74 min.
Start Time: 18:00
Date: 2008-11-14
End Time: 19:15

Filmmakers Sabin and Redmon follow up their first successful documentary (Kamp Katrina) with an in-depth poetic story of life on the Mexico-Texas border. A young married couple join [...]

Title: Glass House
Location: Domincan University of California
Description: dir. Brad Marlowe, 2006, USA, 78 min.
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Start Time: 18:00
Date: 2008-11-22
End Time: 20:00
This moving documentary is the untold story of how El Salvador, one of the smallest countries in the world, facilitated one of the most successful rescue operations of World War II. Beginning in 1942, the [...]