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SALAAM DUNK

Sunday Jan 27, 3pm

Girl power, hope and inspiration from one winning group of Iraqi women basketball players.

REPORTERO

Friday Jan 25, 7pm

Brave Mexican journalists risk their lives to tell the human stories that tend to fall between the cracks.

 

San Diego

January 24 to 28, 2013

at the Museum of Photographic Arts

 

 

Bring the Film Festival to your community.

2012-13 Traveling Film Festival Lineup

 

 

Film Festival, January 24–28, 2013

(San Diego Premiere)
Filmmaker(s): Annie Goldson
Year: 2011 / 99m
January 27

Through New Zealander Rob Hamill's story of his brother's death at the hands of the Khmer Rouge, Brother Number One explores how the regime and its followers killed nearly 2 million Cambodians between 1975 and 1979.

(San Diego Premiere)
Filmmaker(s): Katherine Fairfax Wright & Malika Zouhali-Worrall
Year: 2012 / 90m
January 24

Veteran Ugandan LGBT activist David Kato insists: "if we keep on hiding, they will say we are not here." With unprecedented access, Call Me Kuchu examines the astounding courage and determination required to battle an oppressive government, a vicious media and a powerful church in the fight for lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender rights.

(San Diego Premiere)
Filmmaker(s): Lise Birk Pedersen
Year: 2011 / 85m
January 26

Meet Masha, a 19-year-old who grew up in the Putin era, on her journey through the Kremlin-created Nashi youth movement. This coming-of-age tale focuses on Masha's personal political struggle and paints a grim picture of the Russian political climate.

Filmmaker(s): Bernardo Ruiz
Year: 2011 / 72m
January 25

Reportero follows veteran reporter Sergio Haro and his colleagues at Zeta, a Tijuana, Mexico-based weekly, as they dauntingly ply their trade in what has become one of the most deadly places in the world to be a journalist.

(San Diego Premiere)
Filmmaker(s): David Fine
Year: 2011 / 82m
January 27 / 28

With plenty of pop music and 'girl power', Salaam Dunk delivers a tale of hope and inspiration courtesy of one winning group of Iraqi women basketball players.

Filmmaker(s): Directed by Kirby Dick, Produced by Amy Ziering
Year: 2011 / 95m
January 26

The Invisible War is a groundbreaking investigative documentary about the shameful and underreported epidemic of rape within the US military. With stark clarity and escalating revelations, The Invisible War exposes the rape epidemic in the armed forces, investigating the institutions that perpetuate it as well as its profound personal and social consequences.