2024 Screenings

TOSHKUA

(Ludovic Bonleux, 2022, 80 min)

WED, OCT 30, 2024, 7pm

Marroney Theatre / FREE

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In Person: Director Ludovic Bonleux

Presented by UA Hanson FilmTV Institute and School of Theatre, Film and Television, with generous support from UA Center for Latin American Studies, the Human Rights Practice Program and UA School of Anthropology.

“Toshkua,” a word that means “to disappear” in the Pesh Language of Honduras, tells the story of those who struggle against disappearance.

Mary travels from Honduras to the US border looking for her son, a migrant kidnapped in Mexico. During her journey, she meets other mothers looking for their own sons, and discovers the staggering magnitude of the disappearance crisis in the region. Francisco, leader of the Pesh community, is confronted with the extinction of the tropical forest, the migration of his sons and the vanishing of his own language. He journeys to the heart of the jungle to pray for their survival.

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BORDERLAND | The Line Within

Directed by Pamela Yates
Produced by Paco de Onis
2024, 110 minutes

SUN, SEP 29, 2024, 4pm

The Loft Cinema / FREE

IN PERSON

Joining filmmakers Pamela Yates and Paco de Onis for post-screening discussion:
  • Isabel Garcia, co-founder of the non-profit Coalición de Derechos Humanos and a nationally prominent immigrant rights activist, who directed the Pima County Legal Defender’s office for 22 years.
  • Margo Cowan, Pima County Public Defender and founding member of Keep Tucson Together, a primarily volunteer organization that runs a weekly Immigration Clinic.
  • Vicki B. Gaubeca, Human Rights Watch Associate Director, US Immigration and Border Policy
The United States border is not just a geographic location. The border is everywhere.

It lies within every undocumented immigrant family with the threat that at any moment they can be captured, incarcerated, deported; their lives destroyed. BORDERLAND | The Line Within not only exposes the profitable business of immigration and its human cost, but weaves together the stories of immigrant heroines and heroes resisting and showing a way forward, intent on building a movement in the shadow of the border industrial complex, recognizing the human rights of all…

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LIFE INTERRUPTED

(Paula Mozen, 2018)

SUN, APR 14, 2024, 2pm

TUE, MAR 19, 2024, 7pm

The Loft Cinema / FREE

In Person

Joining filmmaker Paula Mozen for post-screening discussion:
In the United States, one in eight women will be diagnosed with breast cancer in her lifetime.

In LIFE INTERRUPTED, three breast cancer survivors, including Paula Mozen the filmmaker, share their empowering stories of survival. Paula has had two lumpectomies, 38 weeks of radiation therapy, chemotherapy, hormonal therapy and then a double mastectomy. Her reconstruction took a difficult 3.5 years.They confront life-altering diagnoses, navigate their disease process and treatment, and rebuild their lives with dignity, humor, and strength…

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