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Event Details

Third Annual S.B. Human Rights Film Festival

Tue, May 27, 2008 at 7:00pm
Wed, May 28, 2008 at 7:00pm
Thu, May 29, 2008 at 7:00pm

UCSB Campbell Hall, 574 Mesa Rd., Santa Barbara

Event Description

UCSB Arts and Lectures presents the third annual S.B. Human Rights Film Festival. This years' festival will feature 4 Months, 3 Weeks, and 2 Days and The Violin. A three-night event featuring 6 exceptional films. Festival features include the top prizewinner at the Cannes Film Festival 4 Months, 3 Weeks and 2 Days; Oscar winner Taxi to the Dark Side; and Cannes Jury Prizewinner Persepolis.

Featuring the following films:
5/27 7 pm: 4 Months, 3 Weeks and 2 Days
Two college roommates in Romania arrange for an illegal abortion during the final days of communism and find themselves burrowing down a rabbit hole of unexpected revelations. The top prizewinner at the Cannes Film Festival, Cristian Mungiu’s thrilling film transpires over the course of a single day. (2007, 113 min.)

5/27 9 pm: The Violin
A humble Mexican farmer and musician executes a plan to recover weapons hidden on behalf the peasant guerilla movement that he secretly supports. Culminating in a tenuous game of cat-and-mouse, this “exquisitely suspenseful” (Variety) film was a Cannes Official Selection. (Francisco Vargas Quevedo, 2006, 98 min.)

5/28 7 pm: Taxi to the Dark Side
The Oscar winning documentary from Alex Gibney is a stunning inquiry into the suspicious death of an Afghani taxi driver at Bagram Air Base in 2002. Incident records and candid eyewitness testimony uncover an unmistakable link between the tragic occurrence and U.S. policy. (2007, 106 min.)

5/28 9 pm: Hot House
Winner of the Special Jury Prize at the Sundance Film Festival, this rare look inside Israel’s highest security prisons features interviews with incarcerated Palestinians, from political candidates to suicide bombers. The film exposes how the prisons have become incubators for political education and influence Palestinian society at large. (Shimon Dotan, 2006, 89 min.)

5/29 7 pm: Persepolis
An Oscar nominee for Best Animated Feature, this is the poignant story of a young girl in Iran during the Islamic Revolution. The precocious Marjane is clever and fearless, yet as the fear that permeates daily life in Tehran becomes palpable, she must make difficult decisions about leaving her homeland. (Marjane Satrapi & Vincent Paronnaud, 2007, 95 min.)

5/29 9 pm: War/Dance
Set in Northern Uganda, a country ravaged by civil war, this Oscar-nominated documentary is about three children who reside in a displaced persons camp in Patango. An invitation to compete in an annual music festival becomes a historic journey and an opportunity to regain a part of their childhood. (Sean Fine & Andrea Nix Fine, 2007, 105 min.)

General public $10.00 / UCSB Students $8.00