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San Francisco Bay Area – February 18th-25th and March 2nd-22nd, 2007 Schedule and Tickets
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Black Gold
Nick Francis and Marc Francis, U.K., 2006, 78m, doc
In Amharic, Oromiffa and English with English subtitles
Multinational coffee companies dominate an industry worth over $80 billion, making coffee the most valuable trading commodity in the world after oil. But the price paid to coffee farmers remains so low that many have been forced to abandon their coffee fields. From Ethiopia, the birthplace of coffee, Tadesse Meskela embarks on a one-man global mission to save his coffee cooperative's 75,000 struggling farmers from bankruptcy, coming up against the more powerful sides of the international trading system. *Official Selection, Sundance Film Festival 2006.
Pacific Film Archive - 8:50pm, February 23rd
*Introduced by George Scharffenberger, executive director of UC Berkeley's Blum Center for Developing Economies
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Anthony Giacchino – US – 2006 – 82m – video – doc
In English
On August 22, 1971, twenty-eight men and women in Camden, New Jersey, carried out a powerful act of civil disobedience against United States involvement in the Vietnam War - they broke into draft board offices to destroy government records that identified young men available for military service. This documentary tells of the activists' covert preparations, a government raid and arrest of the protesters, and an ensuing legal battle. Thirty-five years later, key participants openly discuss their motives, their fears, and the tremendous personal costs of their actions.*Winner of both the Jury Prize and Audience Award for Best Documentary, Philadelphia Film Festival 2006.
Pacific Film Archive - 6:30pm, February 24th
Yerba Buena Center - 7:00pm, March 8th
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Conversations on a Sunday Afternoon
Khalo Matabane, South Africa, 2005, 80m, drama
In English, French, Zulu and Swahili with English subtitles
An inventive film from Khalo Matabane, a major new South African voice, fuses fiction and documentary to explore Johannesburg as an unlikely haven for the world's war refugees. The struggle for reconciliation is nudged aside to reveal a country coming to terms with its new status as a promised land. What does a richer African nation owe to its poorer neighbours? How does political crisis shape personal identity? And is the war over now?
Pacific Film Archive - 5:30pm, February 18th
Co-presented with African Film Festival
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KZ
Rex Bloomstein, UK, 2005, 88m, doc
In English and German with English subtitles
How does it feel to be a tourist at a former concentration camp? How does it feel to work here as a guide, day in, day out? How does it feel to live here as a local alongside the dark secrets of the past? These questions are explored in a visit to the pictureseque Danube town of Mauthausen. Stripped of the usual dramatic devices - survivor testimonies and archive footage - this is a groundbreaking film about facing our ultimate demons. *Official Selection, Sundance Film Festival 2006.
Pacific Film Archive - 3:30pm, February 25th
Yerba Buena Center - 8:45pm, March 8th
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My Country, My Country
Laura Poitras, US, 2005, 90m, doc, video
In English and Arabic with English subtitles
Working alone in Iraq, filmmaker Laura Poitras creates an intimate portrait of Iraqis living under U.S. occupation. Her principal focus is Dr. Riyadh, an Iraqi medical doctor, father of six, and Sunni political candidate. The access that Poitras was able to gain into the Sunni community is matched by her skill as a filmmaker; never making cheap political points, Poitras assembles images into a powerful mosaic of life in Iraq that the mainstream media never comes close to capturing. *Nominated for an Academy Award.
Pacific Film Archive - 8:30pm, February 24th
*Introduced by Eric Stover, Human Rights Center, UC Berkeley
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Punam
Lucian Muntean & Nataša Stankovic, Serbia, 2005, 28m, doc
In Nepali and Tamang with English subtitles
Beautifully and sensitively produced, Punam tells the story of nine-year-old Punam Tamang, who lives in Bhaktapur in Nepal. Punam lost her mother when she was five and has since been the family caretaker, providing for her younger brother and sister as her father works double shifts in a rice factory to pay for their school fees. We also meet Punam's neighborhood friends, who cannot afford school; instead of studying, these children work each day with their parents at the local brick factories and stone quarries.
Pacific Film Archive - Following 8:50pm screening of Black Gold on February 23rd
Yerba Buena Center - Accompanies screenings of Rosita, 7:00pm & 8:45pm, March 22nd
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Rain in a Dry Land
Anne Makepeace, 2006, US/Kenya, 83m, doc
In English, Mai Mai and Somali with English subtitles
In 2004, thirteen thousand Somali Bantu refugees realized their dream of coming to America. Rain in a Dry Land chronicles two years in the lives of two families as they leave behind a 200-year legacy of oppression in Africa to face new challenges. Filmmaker Anne Makepeace brilliantly succeeds in capturing every step of this remarkable journey - from their very different new homes in Massachusetts and Georgia, through their encounters with racism, poverty, and severe culture shock, to their ultimate survival in a new land.
Yerba Buena Center - 8:45pm, March 15th
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Rosita
Barbara Attie and Janet Goldwater – US/Nicaragua/Costa Rica – 2005 – 55m – video – doc
In English and Spanish with English subtitles
In January 2003, news spreads throughout Central and South America that a nine-year-old Nicaraguan girl has become pregnant as the result of a rape. Rosa, or Rosita as the girl becomes known in the press, is the only child of illiterate campesinos working in Costa Rica as coffee pickers at the time of the assault. Fearing for their daughter's life and mental health, Rosa's parents are determined to obtain an abortion for their child. In both Nicaragua* and Costa Rica, abortion is illegal except when deemed necessary to save the life of the mother. Despite the odds of obtaining a rarely granted exception for a so – called "therapeutic" abortion, Rosa's parents move forward only to be forced into battle with two governments, the medical establishment, and the hierarchy of the Catholic Church. The drama unfolds chronologically, combining the public media reports with the private remembrances of those involved – Rosa's parents, lawyers, doctors, psychologists, priests and journalists. *In October, 2006 Nicaragua’s legislature outlawed all abortion without exception.
Yerba Buena Center - 7:00pm & 8:45pm, March 22nd
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Source (Zrodj)
Martin Marecek & Martin Skalsky, Czech Republic, 2005, 75m, doc
In Czech, Russian, English and Azerbaijani with English subtitles
Baku, Azerbaijan, is the site of the world's first oil well, and is once again becoming a focus for foreign investors with the development of a major oil and gas pipeline project. In Source, a small, inventive Czech crew films the surrealist Soviet-era oil fields around Baku, capturing striking images of cows grazing on polluted land and children playing in toxic sludge. The country's post-Soviet government is promising oil will bring widespread economic benefits to all, but could this "liquid gold" be more of a curse than a blessing for this troubled country?
Pacific Film Archive - 5:30pm, February 25th
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Switch Off
Manel Mayol, Spain, 2005, 87m, doc
Spanish and Mapudungun with English subtitles
The Pehuenche-Mapuche people live above the Bíobío River, in Ralco valley, Chile. For over four centuries they have fought off all invaders who tried to enter the valley, from the Incas to the Spanish conquistadors. In 2004, Spain's largest hydroelectric company, Endesa, constructed the world's third largest dam which flooded the Ralco valley and forced the "exchange" of whole villages to much higher ground. Despite protections for indigenous people enshrined in the Chilean constitution, the government has shown little inclination to enforce their rights against the wealthy Spanish multinational.
Yerba Buena Center - 7:00pm, March 15th
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Total Denial
Milena Kaneva – Bulgaria/Italy – 2006 – 90m – video – doc
In English and Karen and Burmese with English subtitles
The inspiring story of fifteen villagers from the jungles of Burma whose quest for justice eventually leads them to bring suit in a U.S. court against two oil giants – UNOCAL and TOTAL – for human rights abuse. For five years producer/director Milena Kaneva collected accounts from Burmese villagers of forced labor, relocation of villages, rape, and murder associated with construction of the Yadana pipeline. Her “guide” during this journey was Ka Hsaw Wa, a member of Burma’s Karen ethnic minority, and one of the leaders of the student movement for democracy in Burma in 1988 which was violently suppressed by the Burmese government. For more than a decade, at considerable personal risk, he has gathered testimonies and other evidence on numerous cases of human rights and environmental abuse. In 1995, along with the co-founder of Earth Rights International, Katie Redford, Ka Hsaw Wa brought a landmark lawsuit against UNOCAL and TOTAL that drew international attention to the pervasive abuses in Burma.
Pacific Film Archive - 7:00pm, February 23rd
Shown with short Dos Hermanos (Juan Manuel Echavarria, Colombia, 2003, 5 mins)
*Introduced by Rachel Shigekane, Human Rights Center, UC Berkeley
Yerba Buena Center - 7:30pm, March 2nd
Schedule and Ticket Information
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Sunday, February 18th
5:30pm Conversations on a Sunday Afternoon
Friday, February 23rd
7:00pm Total Denial
8:50pm Black Gold and Punam
Saturday, February 24th
6:30pm The Camden 28
8:30pm My Country, My Country
Sunday, February 25th
3:30pm KZ
5:30pm Source
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Friday, March 2nd
7:30pm Total Denial
Thursday, March 8th
7:00pm The Camden 28
8:45pm KZ
Thursday, March 15th
7:00pm Switch Off
8:45pm Rain in a Dry Land
Thursday, March 22nd
7:00pm Rosita and Punam
8:45pm Rosita and Punam
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PFA Advance Tickets
Charge-by-Phone (510) 642-5249
Advance tickets are available for all PFA programs. Tickets may be charged by phone (credit card only) by telephoning (510) 642-5249 up to one day before the program for pickup at Will Call at the PFA Theater box office. Charge-by-phone service is free for members; all others pay a $1-per-ticket service charge. This service is available daily from 11 a.m. to 5 p.m., and one hour before the first showtime of the day.
Tickets may also be purchased in person with cash, credit card, or personal check at the museum's Bancroft lobby admissions desk daily from 11 a.m. to 5 p.m., and at the PFA Theater box office starting one hour before the first showtime of the day.
PFA Theater Admission Prices
Single Feature
$4 BAM/PFA members, UC Berkeley students
$8 Adults (18-64)
$5 UC Berkeley faculty and staff, Non-UC Berkeley students, Senior citizens (65 & over), Disabled persons, Youth (17 & under)
Additional Feature $4 All patrons
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Yerba Buena Advance Tickets
By Phone
Please contact the YBCA Box Office at 415.978.2787.
Online
Purchase tickets anytime online in real time for most YBCA programs at www.ybca.org. A $3 per order convenience fee applies for ticket purchases. YBCA Members waive this fee.
In Person
Visit the YBCA Box office located inside the Galleries and Forum Building, 701 Mission Street at Third. There is no convenience fee for tickets purchased in person at the YBCA Box Office.
Hours: Tue, Wed, Fri, Sat & Sun: noon - 5 pm
Thu: noon - 8 pm
Closed Mondays and major holidays
Venue Box Offices open 90 minutes prior to film screening.
Yerba Buena Ticket Prices
$8 regular admission
$6 for seniors, students and teachers
$6 for YBCA members
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