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Film Festival, February 3–24, 2012

Filmmaker(s): Katie Galloway and Kelly Duane de la Vega
Year: 2011 / 93
February 10
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): Pamela Yates, Peter Kinoy and Paco de Onis
Year: 2010 / 100m
February 3

Part political thriller, part memoir, Granito takes us through a haunting tale of genocide and justice that spans four decades, two films, and filmmaker Pamela Yates’s own career.

Filmmaker(s): Mimi Chakarova
Year: 2010 / 73m
February 24

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 17

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.