Through Film We Fight On
THE SYRACUSE UNIVERSITY HUMAN RIGHTS FILM FESTIVAL is part of Syracuse Symposium 2023-24: Landscapes and is presented by the S.I. Newhouse School of Public Communications and the Syracuse University Humanities Center in the College of Arts and Sciences
Free and Open to the Public (no tickets required)
NORTH BY CURRENT
Angelo Madsen Minax
THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER 21, 7pm
Minax returns home to rural Michigan after the death of his niece in this poetic, nuanced portrait of a family navigating grief, addiction, and transgender identity.
TWICE COLONIZED
Lin Alluna
FRIDAY, SEPTEMBER 22 @ 7 pm
Inuit lawyer Aaju Peter has led a life-long struggle for the rights of Indigenous people. But is it possible to change the world and mend your own wounds at the same time?
MY FAVORITE JOB
Sashko Protyah
SATURDAY, SEPTEMBER 23 @ 1 pm
Portrait of Ukrainian volunteers rescuing civilians from besieged Mariupol.
WHEN SPRING CAME TO BUCHA
Mila Teshaieva and Marcus Lenz
SATURDAY, SEPTEMBER 23 @ 1 pm
Liberated from Russian occupation, a small Ukrainian community continues with life amid trauma and loss, while war rages on close by.
FRACTURE
Evan Starling-Davis
SATURDAY, SEPTEMBER 23, 4pm
Syracuse-based artist, scholar, and digital-age griot, Evan Starling-Davis presents his virtual reality project FRACTURE, an Afro-Surreal poetic experience featuring 3D renderings of objects from Afro-diasporic culture in local archives.
PEACOCK LAMENT
Sanjeewa Pushpakumara
SATURDAY, SEPTEMBER 23, 7pm
To earn money for his sister’s heart surgery, Amila is drawn into the corrupt world of trafficking babies from unwanted pregnancies in Sri Lanka.