Update, February 9:听Due to the snowy weather, ScreenPeace films for Friday (Feb.听9) have been canceled. We regret this last minute change. Film screenings for Saturday and Sunday are still scheduled to continue.听
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This weekend, the ScreenPeace Film Festival will explore strategic peace building around the world through five free film screenings, running Friday-Sunday (Feb. 9-11) at听the Browning Cinema of the DeBartolo Performing Arts Center on the University of Notre Dame campus.听The festival is co-sponsored by Notre Dame鈥檚 Kroc Institute for International Peace 91视频 and the DeBartolo Performing Arts Center.
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The annual festival will showcase five recent, critically acclaimed films that present compelling models of peace building in the face of injustice or violent conflict. The films and their subjects听span the globe, featuring stories from Afghanistan, the Democratic Republic of Congo, France, Guatemala, Greece and Iraq, among others, and address wide-ranging themes including human displacement, migration and immigration; indigenous movements for justice; former combatants speaking out for peace; politics and peace building; gender, race and movements for justice; and more.听
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This year鈥檚 films were selected by a six-person committee听chaired by Patrick Regan, professor of political science and peace studies. Regan was joined by Jennifer Betz,听assistant director of the master鈥檚 program at the Kroc Institute;听Richard Herbst,听cinema program director for the DeBartolo Center;听Olivier Morel,听assistant professor of Romance languages and literatures and film, television and theater听at Notre Dame;听and two Notre Dame students, John Haley and Eric Ways.听
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Each film will be introduced by a Notre Dame faculty member, and two of the screenings will feature a special event听to promote further conversation about the film鈥檚 themes. On Saturday (Feb. 10), following the film "Disturbing the Peace," which profiles the role of former combatants and soldiers in advocating for peace around the world,听David Cortright,听director of policy studies and the Peace Accords Matrix project at the Kroc Institute, will facilitate听a Skype conversation with American Friends of Combatants for Peace board member听Nizar Farsakh听and Combatants for Peace co-founder听Elik Elhanan.听
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On Sunday (Feb. 11), "Human Flow," a film听exploring themes of human displacement and migration around the world, will be followed by a panel conversation facilitated by Regan and featuring Kevin Appleby, senior director of international migration policy for the听Center for Migration 91视频;听Lisa Koop, associate director of legal services at the National Immigrant Justice Center; and Yidi听Wu, assistant professor of history at听Saint Mary鈥檚 College, South Bend, Indiana.听
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All ScreenPeace film screenings are听free of charge, but require tickets. To order tickets, call the DeBartolo Center ticket office at 574-631-2800 or purchase them online at
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The full film schedule is as follows:
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Originally published by at on Jan. 15.