Salaam Dunk
a part of YBCA's March Film Series: the Human Rights Watch Film Festival
- When
- Thu Mar 1, 2012
- Where
- Yerba Buena Center for the Arts (YBCA) Screening Room
- Time
- 7:30pm
- Cost
- $6 - $8
- Tags
- Movies
Description
Salaam DunkBy David Fine
Thu, Mar 1, 7:30pm
Director in person
Basketball is much more than a game in this high-energy documentary about an Iraqi women’s team. For the young players, most of whom had never been allowed to play any sport, it is a blissful release from the realities of a war-torn nation. They come from all ethnicities and sects—Arab, Kurd, Christian, Sunni, Shiite—but the joy they discover in playing and the deep love they come to feel for the young American man who coaches them reveals an Iraq we do not see on the news. (Part of the 2012 Human Rights Watch Film Festival.) (2011, 82 min, digital)
2012 Human Rights Watch Film Festival
Mar 1 - 29
For the last eleven years, every March we’ve presented a selection of powerful films with distinctive human rights themes. The power of film cannot be underestimated to challenge the viewer and promote calls to action. Rather than wallow in despair, the films in this program will put a human face on threats to individual freedom and dignity, and celebrate the ability of the human spirit and intellect to prevail.
More Info
- Link
- http://ybca.org/2012-human-rights-watch-film-festival
- Call
- 415-978-2787 (Box Office)
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