Swimming Out Till The Sea Turns Blue

Union Cinema

This screening is free for UWM students and Union Cinema Members! $5 General Admission A vital document of Chinese society since 1949. The director interviews three prominent authors—Jia Pingwa, Yu Hua, and Liang Hong—born in the 1950s, 1960s and 1970s,... Read More

Cane Fire

Mitchell Hall, Room B91 3203 N Downer Ave, Milwaukee, WI, United States

The Hawaiian island of Kauaʻi is seen as a paradise of leisure and pristine natural beauty, but these escapist fantasies obscure the colonial displacement, hyper-exploitation of workers and destructive environmental extraction that have actually shaped life on the island for... Read More

Free

Share the Earth Environmental Film Series – Hollow Tree

Union Cinema 2200 E Kenwood Blvd, Milwaukee, WI, United States

Hollow Tree follows three teenagers coming of age in their sinking homeplace of Louisiana. For the first time, they notice the Mississippi River’s engineering, stumps of cypress trees, and polluting refineries. Their different perspectives — as Indigenous, white, and Angolan... Read More

Free

Share the Earth Environmental Film Series – Powerlands

Union Cinema 2200 E Kenwood Blvd, Milwaukee, WI, United States

A young Navajo filmmaker travels to the La Guajira region in rural Colombia, the Tampakan region of the Philippines, the Tehuantepec Isthmus of Mexico, and the protests at Standing Rock. In each case, she meets Indigenous women leading the struggle... Read More

Free

Share the Earth Environmental Film Series – To the End

Union Cinema 2200 E Kenwood Blvd, Milwaukee, WI, United States

Filmed over four years of hope and crisis, To the End captures the emergence of a new generations of leaders and the movement behind the most sweeping climate change legislation in U.S. history. The filmmakers follow four exceptional young women... Read More

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