NDHRFF19 Program

Promoting Human Rights & Social Justice through Film & Art

The Human Family

2019 SCHEDULE

TICKETS

Passes and Individual tickets

All-Access Pass $35

Provides access to all lm screenings

in all cities

City All-Movie Passes

Provides access to all lm screenings

in specic cities

Bismark $25

Grand Forks $15

Fargo $25

Single Admission $10

Single admission to afternoon or

evening screenings in any city

Students & Seniors 55+ $3

Student or Seniors 55+ single admission

to afternoon or evening screenings

Group Rates

Groups of ve or more are eligible for a

Group Discount. Contact info@human-family.org

for more information.

How to buy tickets

Online ticket sales begin Monday, June 3.

Tickets are avilable at Human-Family.org.

Tickets will be emailed and avilable via the

Box Ofce will-call the night of the event.

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screening at each venue.

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MasterCard, Discover and Ameircan Express

are accepted. Checks are not accepted.

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exchanges, substitutions, or replacements.

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lost, stolen, forgotten, or damaged tickets

or passes, or any item misdirected by the

Postal Service or spam lters. If a screening

is cancelled, attendees will have an

opportunity to attend a rescheduled

screening. Service fees for returned

rescheduled passes or tickets are

non-refundable. The service fee is $1.00

per pass or ticket.

Venues

Bismarck

North Dakota Heritage Center & State Museum

612 E. Blvd. Ave., Bismarck, ND 58505

www.statemuseum.nd.gov

Grand Forks

The Empire Arts Center

415 Demers Ave., Grand Forks, ND 58201

www.statemuseum.nd.gov

Fargo

The Fargo Theatre

314 Broadway N., Fargo, ND 58102

www.fargotheatre.org

Minot

The Oak Park Theater

1500 4th Ave. NW, Minot, ND 58703

www.oakparktheater.net

Accessiblity

All screening venues are wheelchair

accessible.

ASL interpretation is provided at select

introductions and post-screening Q&A

sessions.

To request specic accomidations, email

info@human-family.org

Connect with us

Website Human-Family.org

Phone (701) 205-0248 FAX (701) 212-4197

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2019 SCHEDULE

Friday, November 1

Heritage Center

1:45 pm

Inviolable: The Fight for

Human Rights

1:30 pm

Colour Me Free

1:50 pm

Jack and Anna

7:00 pm

Balkowitsch

OPENING NIGHT

8:00 pm

Q&A with Gregory DeSay,

Chelsy Ciavarella

8:30 pm

The Cleanup Story that Didn’t

Make the News

9:00 pm

Discussion: Discriminatory

Practices in Housing

Saturday, November 2

Heritage Center

2:05 pm

Rustic Oracle

1:30 pm

Wantoks: Dance of

Resilience in Melanesia

1:55 pm

Mother, Daughter, Sister

7:00 pm

Los Otros

OPENING NIGHT

8:13 pm

I Am Not Your Negro

9:00 pm

Discussion:

The Deep North

Tuesday, November 5

Empire Arts Center

2:19 pm

Stranglehold

1:30 pm

Ofra & Khalil

7:00 pm

The Eagle and the Condor

OPENING NIGHT

8:00 pm

Q&A with Paulette Moore

and Rebecca Kemble

8:30 pm

MMIW

9:00 pm

Discussion: Water Protector

Legal Collective

1:36 pm

My Name is Mohammed

1:43 pm

Nemesis

7:00 pm

Topanga

7:20 pm

Hayley

7:31 pm

A Story of a Panty

9:00 pm

Discussion: Three White

Pastors on the Stage

2019 SCHEDULE

Thursday, November 7

Fargo Theatre

1:48 pm

Team Tibet

1:30 pm

This Being Human

1:42 pm

Aziz

7:00 pm

Solitary

OPENING NIGHT

7:02 pm

Dead Die Once

7:11 pm

The Other Border

9:00 pm

Discussion: The State of

Contemporary Media

Friday, November 8

Fargo Theatre

2:05 pm

Bayt Jadeed: Seeking

Home

1:30 pm

The New Mother

7:00 pm

Safe Haven

OPENING NIGHT

7:15 pm

Solitary

8:45 pm

Discussion:

Human Tracking in ND

Tuesday, November 12

Oak Park Theater

1:30 pm

Betty Williams

7:19 pm

The Brainwashing of my Dad

7:17 pm

Honey Bee

Friday, November 1

Colour Me Free

Directed by Gray Hodgkinson

Year 2019 | 4 min 59 seconds

Genre Animation|Exerimental

Language(s) English

Country of Origin Singapore

A symbolized narrative inﬂuenced by the plight

of civilians caught up in war. Through no fault

of their own, people are trapped in their cities,

targeted by both sides as acceptable collateral

damage, or even as human shields. This movie

explores how these survivors are forced to

question their allegiances, as expressed by color,

as their base human need to survive

takes precedence.

Inviolable - The Fight for

Human Rights

Directed by Angela Andersen

Year 2019 | 88 min

Genre Documentary Feature

Language(s) English, German

Country of Origin Germany

70 years after the Declaration for Human Rights

was written, do countries value what has been

a great vision after World War II? Highlighting the

many people are tirelessly ﬁghting for human

rights, the documentary shows people who are

aected by the actions of their governments or

corporations.

Bismarck | Hertiage Center | Afternoon Session | 1:30-4:00 p.m.

My name is Mohammed and

Raghad, we don’t exist here

anymore

Directed by Ali Mousawi

Year 2019 | 11 min 40 seconds

Genre Narrative Short

Language(s) Arabic, English

Country of Origin Australia

A day in the life of an Iranian-Ahwazi

asylum-seeking family surviving in Australia.

Mohamed is ten years old. Raghad, his sister, is

eleven. Growing up without their mother,

or extended family, they make a home however

they can while ﬁghting to unite their family.

Friday, November 1

The Eagle and the Condor

Directed by Paulette Moore

Year 2018 | 57 min

Genre Documentary Feature

Language(s) English

Country of Origin United States

From 2016–2017 Standing Rock water protection

camps located at the heart of Turtle Island

became the largest assembly of Indigenous

peoples in recent history. Gathered nations

confronted big energy’s extreme extraction

through the strength of their ceremonies,

histories, and connections. The ﬁlm is based

around prophecy of the Eagle and Condor that

originates with nations from the South.

Bismarck | Hertiage Center | Evening Session | 7:00-9:30 p.m.

Filmmaker Q&A

Paulette Moore & Rebecca Kemble

Join award-winning ﬁlmmakers director

Paulette Moore and producer Rebecca Kemble

for a conversation about their ﬁlm, “The Eagle

and the Condor.” From creation to discovery

to impact, the ﬁlmmakers will describe the ﬁlm’s

journey to-date, and future plans for the story.

The Water Protector Legal Collective has served

as the on-the-ground legal team for the

ceremonial resistance camps at Standing Rock,

ND. They have provided legal representation,

coordination and advocacy for over 800 Water

Proectors who have been arrested in resistance

to DAPL. This short tells the story of 26 Water

Protectors who faced felong charges stemming

from a ceremony held on November 15, 2016 to

remember Missing and Murdered

Indigenous Women.

MMIW

Directed by Johnathan Klett & Teena Pugliese

Year 2019 | 17 min

Genre Documentary Short

Language(s) English

Country of Origin United States

Discussion

Water Protector Legal Collective

Join Water Protector Legal Collective legal

worker Leoyla Cowboy for a discussion about

the work of the WPLC, updates about the

water protectors the organization is providing

legal support for, and a conversation about the

discriminatory practices being leveled at the

water protectors by the justice system. Elizabeth

Loos, President of the Board of Trustees of the

Bismarck Mandan Unitarian Universalist Church

and organizer for the North Dakota Human

Rights Coalition, will join Cowboy to facilitate the

conversation.

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Friday, November 1

Bismarck | Hertiage Center | Evening Session | 7:00-9:30 p.m.

Saturday, November 2

Wantoks: Dance of Resilience

in Melanesia

Directed by Iara Lee

Year 2019 | 19 min 59 seconds

Genre Documentary Short

Language(s) English, French

Country of Origin Solomon Islands

In all Melanesian countries, residents face the

challenge of climate change, as rising sea levels

threaten to swallow both land and tradition. In

this charged context, captivating performers use

their talents to celebrate local culture and draw

international attention to their islands’ plight and

the perils of a warming world.

Rustic Oracle

Directed by Sonia Bonspille Boileau

Year 2019 | 85 min

Genre Narrative Feature

Language(s) English

Country of Origin Canada

8-year old Ivy is trying to understand what

happened to her big sister, who has vanished

from their small Mohawk community. With

minimal clues, Ivy and her mother Susan embark

to ﬁnd her sister. First distant, the journey

ultimately brings the pair closer together,

despite challenging circumstances.

Bismarck | Hertiage Center | Afternoon Session | 1:30-4:00 p.m.

Jack and Anna

Directed by Ksenia Ivanova

Year 2019 | 15 min

Genre Student Filmmaker

Language(s) English

Country of Origin United States

Based on true events that happened in the

early 1900s in Colorado, the ﬁlm tells a story of

a young couple who live a happy life on their

farm. Suddenly a man from the past reveals

Jack’s biggest secret – that he is, in fact, a

woman named Helen Hilsher. After the

revelation Helen is put on trial for cross-dressing

and same-sex marriage.

Saturday, November 2

Balkowitsch

Directed by Gregory DeSaye & Chelsy Ciavarella

Year 2019 | 57 min

Genre Documentary Feature

Language(s) English

Country of Origin United States

Everyone has a purpose, but most spend their

lives searching. For one man, his purpose came

late in life and has been fueled with passion,

spreading like wildﬁre across the prairies and

now spanning the world. Shane Balkowitsch has

found his voice through the lost art of wet plate

photography. He is archiving history, preserving

bloodlines and capturing his visions in silver on

glass for future generations.

Bismarck | Hertiage Center | Evening Session | 7:00-9:30 p.m.

Filmmaker Q&A

Gregory DeSaye and

Chelsy Ciavarella with special

guest Shane Balkowitsch

Join ﬁrst-time ﬁlmmakers Gregory DeSaye and

Chelsy Ciavarella for a conversation about their

ﬁlm “Balkowistch.” We’ll follow the story of the

ﬁlm’s production from conception to

completion. Special guest Shane Balkowitsch

will also participate in the conversation.

The Clean-Up Story that Didn’t

Make the News

Directed by Karen Van Fossen

Year 2019 | 30 min

Genre Documentary Short

Language(s) English

Country of Origin United States

In response to forcible evacuation orders from

state and federal authorities, water protectors

and allies from North Dakota spent the winter

cleaning up the Oceti Sakowin camp and sal-

vaging supplies before they reached the landﬁll.

Local media told a very dierent story. This is the

cleanup story that did not make the news.

Discussion

Discriminatory Practices in Housing

Join the High Plains Fair Housing Center for a

discussion about housing discrimination in the

Bismarck-Mandan area.

Saturday, November 2

Bismarck | Hertiage Center | Evening Session | 7:00-9:30 p.m.

SEPTEMBER 16-19

2020

Tuesday, November 5

Ofra & Khalil

Directed by José Alberto Andrés Lacasta

Year 2019 | 25 min

Genre Narrative Short

Language(s) English

Country of Origin Spain

Khalil (Palestinian) works as a mason in Israel

and has a girlfriend Ofra (Israeli), a student at

the University. A tragedy forces them to make

hard decisions that will separate them forever.

Although the strength of love and life will try to

break through, their fatal fate is an almost

irremediable place.

Stranglehold

Directed by John Zipperer Jr.

Year 2019 | 62 min

Genre Documentary Feature

Language(s) English

Country of Origin United States

The opioid epidemic is not what you think it is.

Watch the real-time struggle of an Alaska

physician on the frontlines of the battle.

During ﬁlming, the clinical operation he led

came under an intense “investigation” which

was conducted as a campaign of disruption

by an FBI agent with a known history of

signiﬁcant abuses.

GRAND FORKS | The Empire arts center | Afternoon Session | 1:30-4:00 p.m.

Mother, Daughter, Sister

Directed by Jeanne Marie Hallacy

Year 2019 | 28 min

Genre Documentary Short

Language(s) Bengali, Jingpho Kachin, Burmese

Country of Origin United States

Amae, Thamee, Ama (Mother, Daughter, Sister)

gives voice to Kachin and Rohingya women

calling for an end to sexual violence in conﬂict.

Powerful testimonies from survivors, witnesses,

and activists explore the far-reaching impact of

sexual violence and trauma upon communities,

woven with stories of courageous women calling

for justice and an end

to impunity.

Tuesday, November 5

Los Otros

Directed by Monica Pendergrass

Year 2019 | 13 min

Genre Documentary Short

Language(s) English, Spanish

Country of Origin United States

Hundreds of thousands of undocumented

Americans are deported from the United States

to “their country of origin” every year. What

happens to these “non-citizens” after they return

to a country they barely know? Separated from

family and starting all over with nothing, they

attempt to forge new lives in the shadow of a

broken immigration system and a country not

prepared for their return.

Discussion

The Deep North

Join Courtney Souvannasacd, Outreach

Coordinator with the National Resource Center

on Native American Aging, Dr. Eric Burin,

Professor of History at UND and author of the

book “Protesting on Bended Knee”, and

Jaylani Hussein, Executive Director for

CAIR-Minnesota, for a conversation about

historical and contemporary racisim and

discrimination in the United States and

at home in North Dakota.

Grand Forks | The Empire Arts Center | Evening Session | 7:00-9:30 p.m.

I Am Not Your Negro

Directed by Raoul Peck

Year 2017 | 80 min

Genre Documentary Feature

Language(s) English, French

Country of Origin United States

In 1979, James Baldwin wrote a letter to his

literary agent describing his next project,

“Remember This House.” The book was to be a

personal account of the lives and

assassinations of three of his close friends:

Medgar Evers, Malcolm X, and Martin Luther

King, Jr. At the time of Baldwin’s death in 1987,

he left behind only 30 completed pages of this

manuscript. Filmmaker Raoul Peck envisions the

book James Baldwin never ﬁnished.

Thursday, November 7

This Being Human

Directed by Aimie Vallat

Year 2019 | 12 min 58 seconds

Genre Documentary Short

Language(s) English

Country of Origin United States

A portrait of a young Iraqi who left everything

behind at 15, in a solo quest for a more

peaceable future. Hameed’s salvation is

education in the U.S. bound by a big

altruistic dream.

Team Tibet

Directed by Alison Pinkney

Year 2019 | 90 min

Genre Documentary Feature

Language(s) English, Tibetan

Country of Origin United Kingdom

A ﬁlm about survival, perseverance, friendship,

and hope. A remarkable story of courage, of

physical, mental, and spiritual exhaustion, with

a drive to cross the ﬁnish line stronger than that

of any Olympian. Tibet cannot take part in the

Olympics as it is not recognized as a sovereign

state by the International Olympic Committee,

so in an act of deﬁance and solidarity, a group

of young Tibetan refugees held their own.

Fargo | The Fargo Theatre| Afternoon Session | 1:30-4:00 p.m.

Nemesis

Directed by Behzad Jafarimazhab Haghighi

Year 2019 | 5 min

Genre Animation/Experimental

Language(s) Silent

Country of Origin Islamic Republic of Iran

In an amusement park, where everything is

standing out of circulation, a defendant is

charged for having a whirligig...

Thursday, November 7

Topanga

Directed by Aycil Yeltan

Year 2019 | 15 min

Genre Narrative Short

Language(s) English

Country of Origin United States

Hearing impaired, homeless Gala escapes from

a man who continually abuses her. While her life

becomes a routine in an abandoned old truck

on a mountain road, she is unaware the abusive

man ﬁnds out where her hiding place is. One

night, after a brutal attack, she ﬁnds the strength

to stand up one last time and starts walking. She

has no clue where this survival walk will end up

and change her life forever.

Fargo | The Fargo theatre | Evening Session | 7:00-9:30 p.m.

Hayley

Directed by Michael Dolha

Year 2018 | 11 min

Genre Student Film

Language(s) English

Country of Origin United States

A 3-hour ﬂight becomes a race against time for

a 24-year-old neurotic ﬂight attendant doing

everything in her power to collect evidence to

save an 8-year-old girl she believes is a victim of

sexual abuse. The protagonist’s goal becomes

impossible thanks to the young girl’s

accompanier who claims to be her uncle.

A Story of a Panty

Directed by Stefanne Prijot

Year 2018 | 60 min

Genre Documentary Feature

Language(s) French, Hindi, Indonesian, Uzbek

Country of Origin Belgium

A store owner used to sell clothes that were

made 100% in Belgium. But since the relocation

of factories 30 years ago, this is something she

cannot oer anymore today. Step by step, from

one stage to another of its manufacture

process, from one country to another, the story

of this panty brings us close in the intimacy of

ﬁve women, each of them like a chain link of

globalized production.

Discussion

Three White Pastors on the Stage

In North Dakota, a majority white population

(88%) identiﬁes their faith-based aliation to be

Christian (77%). What is the role of the

majority population in ensuring that human and

civil rights are protected and expanded for

marginalized communities, and how does

religious faith play into those responsibilities?

Speaking from their faith traditions and personal

experiences, Rev. Karen Van Fossan, Pastor Joe

Larson and Rev. Grace Murray will share the

individual moments each were called to elevate

human rights and social justice in the face of

public criticism and disagreement.

They’ll discuss their anchors and their centering,

and how they found peace in the discomfort of

standing against ideologies of division.

The conversation will be facilitated by

Jessica Thomasson of Lutheran Social Services

of North Dakota.

Special Thanks

PRODUCTIONS

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Friday, November 8

The New Mother

Directed by Eleva Singleton

Year 2019 | 12 min 22 seconds

Genre Animation/Experimental

Language(s) English

Country of Origin United States

The New Mother is a 12 minute short

experimental drama which explores the

delicate paradigm shift between an aging

mother and her adult daughter who

becomes her caregiver... We explore the

stages of grief/acceptance/understanding

and new beginnings in this suspenseful

psychological silent ﬁlm.

Bayt Jadeed: Seeking Home

Directed by Danica Simonet & Mackenzie Kuhl

Year 2019 | 29 min 40 seconds

Genre Documentary Short

Language(s) English

Country of Origin United States

Bayt Jadeed narrates the search for home from

the perspective of refugees and receiving

communities both in Germany and in Minnesota.

Fargo | The Fargo Theatre| Afternoon Session | 1:30-4:00 p.m.

Aziz

Directed by Mica Agustoni

Year 2018 | 21 min 35 seconds

Genre Narrative Short

Language(s) Arabic, Swiss German

Country of Origin Switzerland

Six-year-old refugee Aziz wants to return to his

home country and board a cruise ship on the

lac of Greifensee. Nothing makes the boy realize

that he is on the wrong track. Captain Elmar,

who has long since stopped dreaming, ﬁnds out

of his apathy through Aziz. The meeting of two

homeless people who could not be more

dierent and still sit in the same boat.

Friday, November 8

Betty Williams: Contagious

Courage

Directed by Dawn Engle

Year 2018 | 64 min

Genre Documentary Feature

Language(s) English

Country of Origin United States

The story of a young mother living in Northern

Ireland as her country teetered on the brink

of civil war. When three little children were

killed, hundreds of thousands of people, mainly

women, rose up to demand that their country

change. The ﬁlm shows how average people

can overcome their fear, and how one person

can make a dierence in a violent and

unpredictable world.

FARGO | The Fargo theatre | Evening Session | 7:00-9:30 p.m.

Solitary Conﬁnement

Directed by Raquel Salvatella de Prada

Year 2013 | 2 min

Genre Animation/Experimental

Language(s) English

Country of Origin Spain

A visual representation on an excerpt from

prisoner Chris McBride’s letter to the

newspaper Indy Week dated July 4th, 2012. This

piece attempts to visually communicate, in less

than 2 minutes, the amount of time a prisoner

spends in a very small conﬁnement, the

minuscule amount of time spent outside the cell

and the psychological impact this can have.

The Dead Die Once

Directed by Max McGillivray & Alex Morelli

Year 2018 | 8 min 30 seconds

Genre Narrative Short

Language(s) Arabic, English

Country of Origin United States

After settling into her new life in America, a

Syrian refugee receives a visit from her past.

Based on a story by Syrian writer

Jehan Sayed Issa.

The Other Border

Directed by Justin Zimmerman

Year 2019 | 7 min 54 seconds

Genre Documentary Short

Language(s) English

Country of Origin United States

High school student Gerardo Hernandez, raised

in the United States since six months of age,

was one of over 100 undocumented workers

arrested by ICE in Ohio on June 5th, 2018.

Gerardo spent almost 2 months in prison before

being released, and is now scheduled to be

deported in early 2020.

Discussion

The State of Contemporary Media

Join Doug Hamilton and special guest John

Nichols for a conversation about the state of

contemporary media. Nichols is a pioneering

journalist for The Nation, host of the podcast

Next Left, and author of several books, including

Horsemen of the Trumpocalypse: A Field Guide

to the Most Dangerous People in America, as

well as The Genius of Impeachment.

Their conversation will focus on John’s

experiences working in media: what he’s seen

as a journalist, what is working and what he’s

concerned about, and what consumers of

media need to be wary of moving forward.

The Brainwashing of My Dad

Directed by Jen Senko

Year 2015 | 78 min

Genre Documentary Feature

Language(s) English

Country of Origin United States

As ﬁlmmaker Jen Senko tries to understand the

transformation of her father from a non-political,

life-long Democrat to an angry, right-wing

fanatic, she uncovers the forces behind the

media that changed him completely. This

documentary shines a light on how it happened

(and is still happening).

Tuesday, November 12

Safe Haven

Directed by Edson Da Conceicao & Timo Ottevanger

Year 2019 | 15 min

Genre Narrative Short

Language(s) English

Country of Origin Netherlands

Two innocent orphans, Maiky and Alice, are

trying to survive in a world overrun by war. It

seems they will never be able to escape the war

but still they hold on to hope.

OAK PARK THEATER | Evening Session | 7:00-9:30 p.m.

Honey Bee

Directed by Rama Ra

Year 2018 | 90 min

Genre Narrative Feature

Language(s) English

Country of Origin Canada

The journey of quick-witted Natalie “Honey Bee”

Sorensen, an underage truckstop

prostitute trapped in a human tracking

ring and controlled by her pimp-boyfriend

until she is transplanted into foster care in

remote Northern Ontario and forced to

confront her identity.

Solitary Conﬁnement

Directed by Raquel Salvatella de Prada

Year 2013 | 2 min

Genre Animation/Experimental

Language(s) English

Country of Origin Spain

A visual representation on an excerpt from

prisoner Chris McBride’s letter to the

newspaper Indy Week dated July 4th, 2012. This

piece attempts to visually communicate, in less

than 2 minutes, the amount of time a prisoner

spends in a very small conﬁnement, the

minuscule amount of time spent outside the cell

and the psychological impact this can have.

Discussion

Human Tracking in North Dakota

Annete Mennem, Director of the Native

American Center at MSU, Maria Berlin,

Executive Director of Hispanics Have a Voice

Too, Tara Bjornson, Assistant Director of the

Domestic Violence Crisis Center, Brandi Jude,

Executive Director of Invisible Innocence, and

James Falcon will have a discussion about the

human and labour tracking crisis currently

happening in North Dakota.

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