Two powerful and inspiring new films are showing around the world this summer and fall that serve as a call to action for those of us who are passionate about peace:
Award-winning Budrus, a film by Just Vision, a new URI CC, tells the story of a father and daughter who unite a divided community in a non-violent campaign against the building of an Israeli security wall through their village’s olive groves. Called by the New York Times “this year’s must-see documentary,” the film played to packed theaters in Israel and Palestine, and is playing this week in Berkeley, California as part of the San Francisco Jewish Film Festival, in New York and in Kosovo. Later this fall, it will be in theaters in Rio de Janeiro, Edinburgh, Toronto and cities around the world. For more information and a list of screenings, go to http://www.justvision.org/en/budrus.
Countdown to Zero, a film by the makers of An Inconvenient Truth about the threat of nuclear weapons also opens in San Francisco and other cities around the United States this week. Producer Lawrence Bender donated tickets for the July 30 San Francisco screening to the URI community. According to producers, the film “is a chilling wake-up call about the urgency of the nuclear threat. It tells the striking story of uncertainty, exposing the real possibility of nuclear disaster and revealing the truth behind an issue on which human survival itself hangs.” For more information or to buy tickets, go to http://www.globalzero.org/en/film.
