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Date: Thursday, December 2, 2021. 4:00 PM. Location: Stanford University Main Quad Building 200 Room 2 Camera as Witness Stanford Arts presents series MOVING FORWARD co-presented with ACLU Social Justice Committee Stanford student group, Stanford Film Society and the World House Project - Center on Democracy, Development and the Rule of Law celebrating the life and work of this year's UNAFF Visionary Award recipient Harry Belafonte  SING YOUR SONG (USA, 105 min) Director: Susan Rostock Producer: Michael Cohl Sing Your Song is an up-close look at a great American, Harry Belafonte. A patriot to the last and a champion for worldwide human rights, Belafonte is one of the truly heroic cultural and political figures of the past sixty years. Told from Harry’s point of view, the film charts his life from a boy born in New York and raised in Jamaica, who returns to Harlem in his early teens where he discovers the American Negro Theater and the magic of performing. From there the film follows Belafonte’s rise from the ...

Date: Thursday, November 11, 2021. 7:00 PM. Location: Stanford Medical School's LKSC Room 120 Camera as Witness Stanford Arts presents series MOVING FORWARD co-presented with Santa Clara County, Stanford Film Society and Stanford Medical School Medicine and the Muse SEYRAN ATES: SEX, REVOLUTION AND ISLAM (55 min) Germany/Norway/Turkey Director: Nefise Özkal Lorentzen  Producer: Jørgen Lorentzen In the 1960s, the hippies championed the idea of a sexual revolution. They received neither Fatwas nor bodyguards. Today, Seyran Ates - a Turkish- German lawyer, feminist, and one of the first female imams in Europe - is fighting for a sexual revolution within Islam. In return, she was shot, received fatwas and death threats, and now has to live under constant police protection. Seyran believes the only way to fight against radical Islam is through Islam, which is why, in her liberal mosque, there is no gender segregation or exclusion based on sexual orientation. This is the story of Seyran's personal and ideological f...

Date: Tuesday, October 26, 2021. 3:30 PM. Location: Stanford Medical School Li Ka Shing Center bldg. room 130 and room 120 Camera as Witness Stanford Arts Program Presents the 24th UNAFF (United Nations Association Film Festival) Session 12 (LKSC room 130) 3:30 PM / GROUNDED (Canada, 7 min) 3:50 PM / FULL PICTURE (US, 12 min) 4:20 PM / THE PIANIST FROM RAMALLAH (Israel/Palestine, 60 min) Session 13 (LKSC room 120) 6:30 PM / THEY KEEP QUIET SO WE MAKE NOISE (Malaysia/US, 12 min) 7:00 PM / FATHER OF THE CYBORGS (Ireland/US, 76 min) 8:30 PM / MEDICINE MAN: THE STAN BROCK STORY (UK/US, 85 min)