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Film Festival, February 7–April 17, 2012

Filmmaker(s): Pamela Yates, Peter Kinoy and Paco de Onis
Year: 2010 / 100m
April 17

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): Marshall Curry (director) and Sam Cullman (co-director)
Year: 2011 / 85m
February 7

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): Michael Camerini and Shari Robertson
Year: 2010 / 100m
March 27 / 28

Last Best Chance brilliantly presents a political legend, Senator Edward Kennedy, in his final battle for comprehensive immigration reform in the US.

Filmmaker(s): Thomas Napper
Year: 2010 / 77m
February 21 March 25

Meet the residents of Los Angeles' Skid Row as they prove to the world – you don't need a roof over your head to build a community.

Filmmaker(s): Tanaz Eshaghian
Year: 2010 / 71m
February 8 April 3

Jailed for running away from home to escape abuse, for allegations of adultery, and other “moral crimes,” the women of Afghanistan’s Badum Bagh prison band together to fight for their freedom.

Filmmaker(s): Michael Camerini and Shari Robertson
Year: 2010 / 93m
March 28

With unprecedented access to some of the most powerful members of the US Congress, Mountains and Clouds revisits a seminal moment in the push for immigration reform, with implications for the immigration battle currently brewing for the Obama administration and Congress.

Filmmaker(s): Joe Wilson and Dean Hamer
Year: 2009 / 66m
March 15

Out in the Silence captures the controversy that ensues when filmmaker Joe Wilson's same-sex wedding announcement is published in the newspaper of the smallPennsylvania hometown he left long ago.

Filmmaker(s): Roberto Hernández and Geoffrey Smith
Year: 2009 / 88m
March 13

In December 2005 Toño Zuniga was picked up off the street inMexico City,Mexico, and sentenced to 20 years for a murder he knew nothing about.

Filmmaker(s): Ali Samadi Ahadi
Year: 2010 / 80m
March 20

By providing an animated backdrop for the urgent blog posts and tweets that became a lifeline to Iranian pro-democracy activists, The Green Wave recounts the dramatic events of the most severe domestic crisis in the history of Iran.