Bellingham Human Rights Film Festival
The Velvet Rope Hair Studio is proud to sponsor the Bellingham Human Rights Film Festival again this year.
The film festival runs February 17th through February 26th
For more information visit the Bellingham Human Rights Film Festival web site.
Following is this year’s list of films that will be shown.
Films start at 7pm unless otherwise noted. Films organized by WHERE they will be show, then by date.
Films Showing at Pickford Film Center
February 17: (7:00PM and 9:00PM)
Budrus
- A Palestinian village’s non-violent opposition to Israel’s barrier wall.
Films Showing at Fairhaven Auditorium, WWU
February 18:
Crude
- Ecuadorans file a lawsuit against Chevron for contamination of their lands.
February 19:
The Power of the Powerless
- The 1989 Czechoslovakian popular revolt against the USSR.
February 20 Matinees:
12:00: The World According to Monsanto
- Investigation of practices of agricultural company, Monsanto.
2:15: Orang Rimba
- Corporation threatens culture of indigenous Indonesian forest dwellers.
3:00: Deep Down
- A community makes a choice when mountaintop coal removal comes.
4:15: Turtle World
- Short animated animal parable about sustainability.
February 20:
Enemies of the People
- Cambodian Khmer Rouge killers talk for the first time.
February 21:
TAPPED
- Describes various effects of the bottled water industry.
February 22:
A Small Act
- A Kenyan scholarship winner later funds a scholarship program
February 23:
Poto Mitan
- Five Haitian women try to survive in the world economy.
February 24:
Other Side of Immigration
- A look at Mexicans’ decisions to come to the U.S. Which Way Home. Immigrant children travel alone by freight trains to U.S.
February 25:
Redlight
- Working against trafficking of Cambodian children for sex.
February 26 Matinees:
12:00: Tony and Janina’s American Wedding
- Special Preview Screening. Resident couple deals with U S immigration bureaucracy.
1:45: A Thousand Suns
- Explores the sustainable worldview of Africa’s Goma people.
2:30: No Tomorrow
- Considers many aspects of a capital punishment decision.
February 26:
Cultures of Resistance
- Worldwide examples of creative resistance to war and injustice
Films Showing at the Bellingham High School Library
February 22:
Out in the Silence
- Small town’s harassment of a gay high school student.
February 23:
Papers
- Challenges of undocumented youth who turn 18.
Films Showing at Northwest Indian College
February 24: (Back to Back Movies)
TAPPED
- Describes various effects of the bottled water industry.
A Thousand Suns
- Explores the sustainable worldview of Africa’s Goma people.
February 25: (Back to Back Movies)
Crude
- Ecuadorans file a lawsuit against Chevron for contamination of their lands.
Turtle World
- Short animated animal parable about sustainability.
Films Showing at Bellingham Technical College
February 24:
Redlight
- Working against trafficking of Cambodian children for sex.
Films Showing at Sehome High School Theater
February 24:
Out in the Silence
- Small town’s harassment of a gay high school student.
Green
- Destruction of the Indonesian rain forest for palm oil.