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1:00 pm– The United Nations-Working for us all

14 minutes (U.S.A.)

This video, narrated by Michael Douglas, UN Messenger for Peace, outlines how the UN system shapes all of our daily lives.

1:30 pm– “Ahinam Chay” Asi es esta Historia

35 minutes (Chile/Peru)

The film explores a literacy program, run primarily by indigenous women which draws upon elements of the women’s own culture.

2:10 pm– Where Women are Banned

15 minutes (Afghanistan/UK)

Three women from Afghanistan tell their haunting stories. They talk about the tearing away of their freedom and the human rights abuses inflicted on them by the Taliban.

2:30 pm– A Great Wonder-Lost children of Sudan

61 minutes (Ethiopia/Kenya/Sudan/USA)

A Great Wonder Lost Children of Sudan traces the extraordinary journey of three young Sudanese orphans. Having navigated the hazards of warfare, disease and starvation, their arrival and resettlement in Seattle, WA, is not your average immigration story.

3:45 pm– Afghanistan Unveiled

52 minutes (Afghanistan/France/USA)

Filmed by the first ever team of women video journalists trained in Afghanistan, this rare and uncompromising film explores the effects of the Taliban’s repressive rule and recent U.S. military campaign on Afghani women.

4:45 pm– Dying to Leave-Slave of the Free Market

103 minutes (Australia & USA)

A two part series about human trafficking and people smuggling in a globalized world..

6:30 pm– Bombies

57 minutes (Canada/Laos/USA )

This film examines the problem of unexploded cluster bombs through the personal experiences of a group of Laotians and foreigners and argues for their elimination as a weapon of war.

7:30 pm – The Oil Factor Behind the War on Terror

93 minutes (Afghanistan/Iraq/USA)

The Oil Factor questions the motives for the US wars in the Middle East and Central Asia where three quarters of the world's oil and natural gas is located.

1:30 pm– Brothers and Others

54 minutes (U.S.A.)

Brothers and Others follows a number of immigrant and American families as they struggle hardships that erupted in the USA following the attacks on the World Trade Center and the Pentagon on September 11, 2001.

2:45 pm– Too Brief a Child

15 minutes (India/Philippines/USA)

This is a story of lost childhoods, lost dreams and little hope of breaking the cycle of poverty and hopelessness that young girls who get married before adolescence face.

3:10 pm– Sentenced

6 minutes (USA)

Sentenced is a brief journey inside the dark and closed world of a U.S. women’s prison.

3:30 pm– In Whose Interest

27 minutes (USA)

A documentary made in response to the events of September 11th.

4:10 pm– Heart of the Congo

57 minutes (Congo/USA)

Heart of the Congo is a film about courage, hope and perseverance. In the heart of the Congo, at the end of a war, a handful of aid workers help refugees who have lost everything.

5:20 pm– A Life of Death

8 minutes (USA)

A Life of Death poetically documents the tragic irony of waging war to establish peace.

5:45 pm– The Education of Shelby Knox

76 minutes (USA)

The Education of Shelby Knox is a coming of age story about a teenage girl who joins a campaign for comprehensive sex education in the high schools of Lubbock, Texas

7:10– Stealing a Nation

56 minutes (Chagos Islands/UK/USA)

Stealing a Nation is an extraordinary film about the plight of the people of the Chagos Islands in the Indian Ocean; secretly and brutally expelled from their homeland by British governments in the late 1960s and early 1970s to make way for an American military base.

8:15 pm– Afghanistan Unveiled