Organization

United Nations Association Film Festival (Stanford)

Presented by United Nations Association Film Festival at Stanford University

October 25-October 30, 2011

United Nations Association Film Festival celebrates the power of films dealing with human rights, environmental themes, population, migration, women's issues, refugees, homelessness, racism, health, universal education, war and peace. It has screened some of the most awarded and talked about documentaries in the industry including five that went on to win Academy Awards. The theme for 2011 is "Education Is a Human Right."

The venues for this year's screenings on the

United Nations Association Film Festival (Palo Alto)

Presented by United Nations Association Film Festival at Aquarius Theatre

October 21-October 24, 2011

United Nations Association Film Festival celebrates the power of films dealing with human rights, environmental themes, population, migration, women's issues, refugees, homelessness, racism, health, universal education, war and peace. It has screened some of the most awarded and talked about documentaries in the industry including five that went on to win Academy Awards.

The theme for 2011 is "Education Is a Human Right."

Closing Night and XXVI, XXVII and XXVIII Sessions - United Nations Association Film Festival

Presented by United Nations Association Film Festival at Cubberley Auditorium - Stanford University

October 31, 2010

The United Nations Association Film Festival, now in its 13th incarnation, was originally conceived to celebrate the 50th anniversary of the signing of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights. The theme for this year is Population - Migration - Globalization.

XXVI SESSION:

$100 a Day (USA) - On December 9, 1991, Rick Walker was convicted and sentenced to twenty-six years in prison for a murder he did not commit. Linked to the crime by false

XXII Session - United Nations Association Film Festival

Presented by United Nations Association Film Festival

October 30, 2010

The Desert of Forbidden Art (Russia/USA/Uzbekistan) co-presented with the Center for Russian, East European and Eurasian Studies - During the era of Soviet rule artists who stay true to their vision are executed, sent to mental hospitals or to Gulags. Their plight inspires young Igor Savitsky who pretends to buy state-approved art. Instead he daringly rescues 40,000 forbidden works by fellow artists and creates a museum in the desert of Uzbekistan, far from the watchful eyes of the

XXIII, XXIV and XXV Sessions - United Nations Association Film Festival

Presented by United Nations Association Film Festival at Annenberg Auditorium - Stanford University

October 30, 2010

The United Nations Association Film Festival, now in its 13th incarnation, was originally conceived to celebrate the 50th anniversary of the signing of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights. The theme for this year is Population - Migration - Globalization.

XXIII SESSION:

The Last Elephants in Thailand (Thailand/USA) - In 1990 jeweler Soraida Salwala watched a news report featuring two Asian elephants that had fallen from a cliff in Kwia National Park.