ZONING CONFLICTS

Political conflicts often have two or more major players. Those caught in the middle seldom have a say about which side they’re on and by whose rules they’re playing. But it is the lives of these forgotten voices that are most affected.

Followed by Q&A with directors.

trt 106min
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155MILE

SOUTH KOREA 2007 | 25 MIN | Color Video | Korean w/ E.S.
Three documentary filmmakers journey to the DMZ and capture something that goes beyond nature.

ISMAEL

U.S. 2007 | 9 MIN | Color Video | English Hindi w/ E.S.
Federal agents question an American hotel owner about hiring a Pakistani man.

PIERRE-PIERROT

FRANCE 2007 | 27 MIN | Color Video | French Vietnamese w/ E.S.
A video-letter between identical twins separated in 1975 when their family attempted to flee communist Laos. The film records the twins’ polar lives, one in Laos and the other in France.

THE PAIN WITH BEING THIRSTY

U.S. 2007 | 6 MIN | Color Video | English
How do you recall thirst? Set to rarely-viewed archival footage of the construction of Arizona’s Japanese American internment camps, we hear the resonant words of current Guantanamo Bay detainee, Babar Ahmad.

RABIA

U.S. 2007 | 24 MIN | Color Video | Arabic English w/ E.S.
This provocative short traces the important events in a Palestinian woman’s life that lead her to becoming a suicide bomber.

4960

U.S. 2007 | 14 MIN | Color Video | Croatian English w/ E.S.
A Bosnian refugee living in Chicago awaits a letter or phone call that carries urgent news of his beloved.