CENTER FOR PROGRESS AND JUSTICE
1420 Cerrillos Rd, Santa Fe, NM 87505
Sunday February 23, 12:30 PM
STORIES AROUND THE WORLD Total run time 2:06:20
We converse with artisans and its sellers to discuss the lack of patronage that may lead to its extinction and the possible ways to revive the craft as well the poor living conditions of its artists.
Dokra Keu Bojhey Na (Incomprehensible Dokra) is an animated documentary that explores the perils that the 4000 year old craft of Dokra faces in West Bengal, India.
Ballerina is the story of an 8-year-old girl who is about to have a dance performance but due to the Iranian rules, her father and other men are prohibited to watch the ballet.
Mana refuses to start the dance and unites with other children to go outside to perform for her father… it is a portrayal of a united civil protest.
Inspired by childhood stories from my grandmother, who taught Mandarin to the Yi people in the 1960s, I went on a trip to Liangshan. Initially shaped by mainstream portrayals of the Yi as backward, my view changed after emerging myself into the Yi community.
Forgiveness: A Path to Peace, Justice and Reconciliation in Rwanda
In Rwanda, the impact of the Genocide against the Tutsi is felt at the individual, communal, and national levels…
Penguins In Paris…A Love Story?
A romantic drama about two lovers — an American woman and a French man — deciding whether to stay together and have a child or to split, allowing the man to follow his dream, to voyage to Antarctica to study penguins, which are at risk because of global warming.
In the world of children, minor changes cause them great anxiety. School is closed and all the children go home with their parents, but in the meantime, Hamid and Navid wait for their parents every day as usual. Hamid is more worried about this than Navid and blames his family for this.
In a city, everyone has a cage on their head, until one person realizes this by accident and wants to make others aware
A little boy, fascinated by the legend that the white keys on the old Steinway piano, which “lives” in his parents’ house, are made of elephant tusks, dreams every night of meeting the gray giants one day and never being separated from them…This desire grows from day to day along with the lullaby that his mother sings to him, because there are words in it: “You are special!”
Avni, a 7 year-old girl lives with her mother, Malti and her brother, Navin. Malti, a single mother works in fields, she sends Navin to school, but keeps Avni home for chores. With an undying desire to study, Avni finds an ingenious way to learn. Avni secretly runs to her brother’s school. She quietly stands outside the window and picks up what is being taught in the class.
Would this moment be enough for Malti to empower Avni?
(Navajo Language Short) An imaginative and independent young boy, Albert, learns the value of hard work and finds his place in his community after having to clean the Chapter House which he finds out is no cake-walk in the park.
