Obstacles to Peace: a film festival
The Association of Students for Human Rights presents “Obstacles to Peace,” a film festival which views the situation within Israel and the Occupied Territories through a lens of Human Rights. The films explore issues of identity between a variety of groups: Palestinian and Israeli, immigrant and native, homosexual and heterosexual, religious and secular, adult and child, highlighting the potential for abuse and hatred between each group. Though the films tend to portray the dark-side of human interaction, they also portray the many viewpoints of Israeli-Palestinian society beyond this dichotomy, therefore depicting
potential for peace especially in the stories of grassroots peacemakers who are making efforts to connect from all sides of the conflict.
We invite you to join us for this two-day event beginning Friday, November 6th at 7:30pm and continuing throughout the day on Saturday, November 7th. The event will be held at the Josef Korbel School of International Studies at the University of Denver in the new Sié Chéou-Kang Center room 150. The festival will kick-off with Waltz With Bashir on Friday evening and will screen 7 films of various viewpoints and subject matter relating to the Israeli-Palestinian conflict on Saturday. Admission is free and we welcome you to attend any or all of the films.
