Spring Film Series

The Program on Refugees, Forced Displacement, and Humanitarian Responses at the MacMillan Center Film Series presents a spring film series focusing on refugee stories from around the globe.

6:00pm • February 8 • Luce Hall Auditorium
“A World Not Ours,” (Mahdi Fleifel, Autobiographical Documentary, 93 mins)

A passionate, bittersweet account of one Palestinian family’s multi-generational experience living as permanent refugees in Lebanon.

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6:00pm • March 1 • Luce Hall Auditorium
“Triage” (Patrick Reed, Documentary, 90 mins)

Nobel Laureate and former president of MSF Dr. James Orbinski travels back to Africa where he spent years as a field doctor, during the Somali famine and the Rwandan genocide, reflecting on the moral dilemmas of humanitarian aid in conflict situations.

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6:00pm • April 19 • Luce Hall Auditorium
“In this World”  (Michael Winterbottom, Docudrama, 90 mins)

Young Jamal and his older cousin Enayat embark on a runaway journey from a Pakistani refugee camp to the promise of a better life in the UK.
 

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Tuesday, February 14, 2017