Film Festival

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• Monday, March 19

Prelude to Kosovo

(John Michalczyk, 1999)

This documentary film depicts the war in the former Yugoslavia through the perspectives of the Serbian Orthodox, Bosnian Muslims, and Croatian Catholics
 

• Tuesday, March 20

Maria Full of Grace

(Joshua Marston, 2004)

Showing and discussion via videoconference with UBA

In a small village in Colombia, the pregnant seventeen years old Maria (Catalina Sandino Moreno) supports her family with her salary working in floriculture. She is fired and with a total lack of perspective of finding a new job, she decides to accept the offer to work as a drug mule, flying to USA with sixty-two pellets of cocaine in her stomach. Once in New York, things do not happen as planned.

• Wednesday, March 21

  Dirty Pretty Things

  (Stephen Frears, 2002)

   
  Showing and discussion via videoconference with UBA

  
  Okwe, a kind-hearted Nigerian doctor, and Senay, a Turkish chambermaid, work at the same West London hotel. The hotel is run by Senor Sneaky and is the sort of place where dirty business like drug dealing and prostitution takes place. However, when Okwe finds a human heart in one of the toilets, he uncovers something far more sinister than just a common crime.
   

• Thursday, March 22

Sometimes in April

(Raoul Peck, 2005)

This is the congruently told story of both the 1994 genocide in Rwanda and the 2004 United Nations-created tribunal in Arusha, Tanzania.