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Film Festival, February 7–28, 2012

Filmmaker(s): Katie Galloway and Kelly Duane de la Vega
Year: 2011 / 93
February 21
A dramatic story of idealism, loyalty, crime, and betrayal, BETTER THIS WORLD goes to the heart of the “war on terror” and its impact on civil liberties and political dissent in the United States after 9/11.
Filmmaker(s): Marshall Curry (director) and Sam Cullman (co-director)
Year: 2011 / 85m
February 28

How far would you go to create change? In December 2005 Daniel McGowan, a prominent New York City social justice organizer, was arrested by federal agents in a nationwide sweep of activists linked to crimes by the Earth Liberation Front (ELF)—a group the FBI has called America's "number one domestic terrorism threat."

Filmmaker(s): Mimi Chakarova
Year: 2010 / 73m
February 14

The Price of Sex  is an unprecedented inquiry into a dark side of immigration: the underground criminal network of human trafficking and the experiences of Eastern European women forced into prostitution abroad.

Filmmaker(s): Giulia Amati and Stephen Natanson
Year: 2010 / 75m
February 7

Hebron is the largest city in the occupied West Bank, home to 160,000 Palestinians.   It is also home to one of the first Israeli settlements in the West Bank and the only one right in the heart of a Palestinian city.