FLEFF 25th Anniversary Pathway: Cinemapolis Films on Globalization and Resources

By Patricia Zimmermann, March 15, 2022

This FLEFF Pathways list of films offers documentaries and narrative films from the France, Rwanda, and the US. Click on the link on the title to read more or to purchase a ticket on Cinemapolis' Eventive Virtual Cinema platform

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All films are $10 per screening. Save money and buy a 5 pass for $35.  Even better, buy an All Access pass to all 25 films on Virtual Cinema and all 3 in-person screenings for $125. 

Purchase tickets and passes HEREDive into the FLEFF 2022 catalog of films HEREImmerse in all 65 FLEFF 2022 events HERE. 

Click on the link on each titles for more information on the film, as well as registration links for talkbacks with directors, writers, scholars, journalists, musicians, archivists, and activists.

33 and Counting (Aisha Sultan, US, 2021)
A true-crime story about a 70-year-old grandmother from rural Missouri serving a life sentence for a murder she says her rapist committed.

A Taste of Our Land  (Yuhi Amuli, Uganda/Rwanda, 2020)
Set in an unnamed African country, A Taste of Our Land is a narrative film about greed told against the backdrop of the current Chinese influence in African countries.

Above Water  (Aissa Maiga, France/Belgium, 2021)
12-year-old Houlaye lives in Tatiste, Niger, and travels several kilometers every day to fetch water. The village joins together to construct a well, the promise of a new life. been walking on water since birth.

Devil Put Coal in the Ground (Lucas Sabean and Peter Hutchison, US, 2021))
This film is an elegy to a vanishing Appalachia with personal storytelling from native West Virginians. It is a meditation on the suffering and devastation brought on by the coal industry and its decline; a crumbling economy; the ravages of the opioid epidemic; the irreparable environmental damage and its tragic impact on human health; and unfettered corporate power.

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