Inside Syria: Visual Storytelling and the Human Side of Conflict

George Butler
Online (zoom)
@ 4:00 pm - 5:00 pm
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Join the next Film Club featuring George Butler, award-winning illustrator and journalist whose work from Syria and Ukraine is held in the V&A Museum’s National Archive. Butler’s art offers an intimate view into life amid war, …

Inside Syria Online Event with George Butler

Maria’s Story: Life Amid Conflict in El Salvador

Geoff Thale
Online
@ 4:00 pm - 5:00 pm
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Set during El Salvador’s civil war, Maria’s Story follows María Serrano — a mother, community organizer, and guerrilla leader whose courage illuminates the human side of conflict. This powerful documentary offers a window into the …

Life amid conflict in El Salvador

Wisconsin Film Festival: Souleymane’s Story

Flix Brewhouse, Cinema 2
@ 8:45 pm
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Set over two urgent days in Paris, Souleymane’s Story follows an undocumented Guinean immigrant navigating the city’s streets as a bike courier while preparing for his high-stakes asylum interview. Part of an underground economy of couriers renting …

Wisconsin Film Festival 2025

Wisconsin Film Festival: Anywhere, Anytime

Giaime Alonge
Flix Brewhouse, Cinema 2
@ 5:45 pm
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Senegalese immigrant Issa struggles to survive in Turin, Italy, navigating an unforgiving city that renders him invisible. After losing his job due to his undocumented status, he finds new hope as a food-delivery rider, gaining …

Wisconsin Film Festival 2025

Wisconsin Film Festival: Anywhere, Anytime

Giaime Alonge
Flix Brewhouse, Cinema 2
@ 3:15 pm
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Senegalese immigrant Issa struggles to survive in Turin, Italy, navigating an unforgiving city that renders him invisible. After losing his job due to his undocumented status, he finds new hope as a food-delivery rider, gaining …

Wisconsin Film Festival 2025

Wisconsin Film Festival: Yasmeen’s Element

Amman Abbasi
The Marquee at Union South
@ 4:15 pm
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Yasmeen, a young Pakistani schoolgirl, is an eager student, curious, joyful and determined. When she loses her homework assignment in the winding hills on her way home, she sets out to find her professor and …

Wisconsin Film Festival 2025

Wisconsin Film Festival: Souleymane’s Story

UW Cinematheque
@ 1:15 pm
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Set over two urgent days in Paris, Souleymane’s Story follows an undocumented Guinean immigrant navigating the city’s streets as a bike courier while preparing for his high-stakes asylum interview. Part of an underground economy of couriers renting …

Wisconsin Film Festival 2025

World Cinema Day 2025

Director Amman Abbasi
Barrymore Theater, Madison, WI
@ 11:30 am
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World Cinema Day (WCD) will take place Friday, April 4th, 11:30 am, at the Barrymore Theater in Madison. World Cinema Day brings middle and high school students and teachers to Madison for a special free screening of a high-quality, international …

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Film Screening: Hot Stuff (2024) with Director Dandhy Laksono

Zoom
@ 4:00 pm - 5:00 pm
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Hot Stuff is an AIFIS film award winning documentary and part of a trio of Indonesian films that delve into energy policies in Indonesia, corporate ties to those policies, and their detrimental effects on local environments and populations. …

Film Screening: Hot Stuff (2024) with Director Dandhy Laksono