Past Events
Nov. 15, 2008
“What Doesn't Kill You" (Yari Film Group)
Nov. 13, 2008
“Frozen River” (Sony Pictures Classic)
Two women — one white, one Mohawk, both single mothers faced with desperate circumstances — confront hard ethical choices and seek comfort and justice in a cold world.
Nov. 3, 2008
“The Visitor” (Overture Films)
An intimate drama about a college professor, Walter Vale, who discovers a pair of homeless, illegal aliens in his New York apartment. When he invites the couple — a young Syrian musician and his Senegalese girlfriend — to stay, an unlikely friendship develops.
Oct. 30, 2008
“The Greatest Silence: Rape in the Congo” (Boston premiere)
"The Greatest Silence: Rape in the Congo," a film produced and directed by Lisa F. Jackson, features the stories of women who have been kidnapped, raped and tortured by soldiers. A civil war has been raging in the Democratic Republic of Congo since the late 1990s, and tens of thousands of women and girls have fallen victim to brutal acts of sexual violence.