In a forgotten but defiant bayou community cut off from the rest of the world by a sprawling levee, a six-year-old girl, Hushpuppy, exists on the brink of orphanhood. Bouyed by her childish optimism and extraordinary imagination, she believes that... Read More
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
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
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
Saturday, April 1 - FREE for everyone! 1-4PM Join the UWM Union Cinema and the Department of Film/Video/Animation/New Genres for films by acclaimed Indian filmmaker Adoor Gopalakrishnan. Don't miss this remarkable opportunity to see two of Gopalakrishnan's films - one... Read More