FILM & VIDEO

1:00 PM THERE ONCE WAS AN ISLAND. What if your community had to decide whether to leave their homeland forever and there was no help available? 

This is the reality for the culturally unique Polynesian community of Takuu, a tiny low-lying atoll in the South Western Pacific. As a terrifying tidal flood rips through their already damaged home, the Takuu community experiences the devastating effects of climate change first hand. 

3:00 PM LOST AIRMEN OF BUCHENWALD. Lost Airmen of Buchenwald is a documentary that chronicles the little-known story of Allied airmen imprisoned at the Buchenwald Concentration Camp in the waning months of World War II. 

5:00 PM HAPPY. In 2005, director Tom Shadyac ('Liar Liar', 'Patch Adams' and 'Bruce Almighty') handed Roko Belic a New York Times article about the new science of happiness. The article ranked the United States down at number 23 on its list of happiest countries. Shadyac, himself dissatisfied with his luxurious Beverly Hills lifestyle, suggested the two collaborate on a documentary investigating the sources of genuine human happiness. How can America be one of the richest countries in the world and nowhere near the happiest?  

7:00 PM THE HOPEFUL. The two-year journey of young man whose dream is to become a Division I college quarterback. From Charlotte, North Carolina, Cody Keith is the son of a wealthy family who became the center of a very heated social discussion on the ethics of transferring high schools for athletic purposes. To avoid the growing media attention, the family moves to Los Angeles, where Cody has one last shot at earning a Division I college football scholarship. Surrounded by pressure and critics who are waiting for him to fail, Cody finds himself on a personal journey of self discovery - and realizes that playing the game for himself is the most gratifying experience he ever could have hoped for.  

9:00 PM ESPIRAL. With the desire to improve their lives, men migrate without realizing that destroy what they want to save, their families.This is the story of Diamantina and Aracely, two youths from the Mixtec Oaxacan starting to see his men north in search of economic improvement. Santiago tries to raise money in order to marry Diamantina. Macario looking out of poverty his family. When the men returned to the people, and nothing is equal. Both want to recover what they left behind in the past, Santiago courting the daughter of Diamantina, Macario seeking forgiveness from his wife and children by abandoning them.