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World Premiere
BEYOND POLLUTION

Shown as part of the multi-day, multi-venue Health and the Environment Film Series

A firsthand investigation of BP’s disastrous oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico, this film uncovers what really happened, why it happened and who benefited from the catastrophe...

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MARCH
16
12 NOON
Directed by: Barker White
Venue: Martin Luther King Jr. Memorial Library


Washington D.C. Premiere
REACH OF RESONANCE, THE

Four musicians and sound artists from radically different backgrounds not only express their perceptions about music but use their musical talents to create ingenious social harmonies in an increasingly hostile universe...

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MARCH
15
12:30 PM
Directed by: Steve Elkins
Venue: National Gallery of Art
MARCH
16
12:30 PM
Venue: National Gallery of Art


Washington D.C. Premiere
SURVIVING PROGRESS

Featuring some of the world’s great contemporary thinkers, this compelling film explores the concept of progress in our modern world from prevalent issues like deforestation and political corruption, to the more controversial concerns of overpopulation and synthetic biology...

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MARCH
16
6:00 PM
Directed by: Mathieu Roy & Harold Crooks
Venue: Carnegie Institution for Science


REBELLION AT DAWN (AWKA LIWEN)

Tells of massacres against native peoples in connection with the theft of their lands by a small, rich minority that divided the property among itself and increased its wealth through large-scale agriculture...

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MARCH
16
6:30 PM
Directed by: Mariano Aiello & Kristina Hille
Venue: Embassy of Argentina


Washington D.C. Premiere
USEFUL LIFE, A (LA VIDA UTIL)

After 25 years, Cinemateca Uruguaya’s most devoted employee, Jorge (real-life Uruguayan critic Jorge Jellinek), still finds his inspiration in caring for the films and audiences that grace the seats and screen of his beloved arthouse cinema. But when dwindling attendance and diminishing support force the theater to close its doors, Jorge is sent into a world he knows only through the lens of art...

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MARCH
16
6:30 PM
Directed by: Federico Veiroj
Venue: Inter-American Development Bank


U.S. Premiere
ANYANG, PARADISE CITY

Journey through the layers of history that have shaped the South Korean city of Anyang and its environment...

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MARCH
16
7:00 PM
Directed by: Park Chan-kyong
Venue: Freer Gallery of Art


Family Friendly
SPACE JUNK 3D

***SPECIAL ADVANCE SCREENING***

For more than 50 years, we’ve launched our dreams into space.  At the same time, we’ve left a lot behind. Countless pieces of metal, glass and plastic from satellites, rockets and other manufactured and natural objects are orbiting directly above us...

A 3D IMAX Film

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MARCH
16
7:00 PM
Directed by: Melissa R. Butts
Presented by: The Smithsonian Associates
Venue: National Museum of Natural History


Washington D.C. Premiere
TUNDRA BOOK, THE: A TALE OF VUKVUKAI, THE LITTLE ROCK

Vukvukai, the Little Rock, is a Chukchi living along the Bering Sea on a remote Russian peninsula in the Arctic Circle, virtually isolated from modern life. A lifelong reindeer herder known in his community as a true man of the tundra, Vukvukai leads a life that is inseparable from the 14,000 reindeer in the Chukchi herd...

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MARCH
16
7:30 PM
Directed by: Aleksei Vakhrushev
Presented with: National Geographic All Roads Film Project
Venue: National Geographic Society


Washington D.C. Premiere
IN ORGANIC WE TRUST

Shown as part of the multi-day, multi-venue Health and the Environment Film Series

Today, more than half of all Americans eat some type of organic food. Yet most people don’t have a clue what it means. When “organic” became a brand, everything changed – the movement and the label grew apart...

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MARCH
16
8:00 PM
Directed by: Kip Pastor
Venue: Carnegie Institution for Science
MARCH
23
6:00 PM
Venue: Town Hall Education Arts and Recreation Campus (THEARC)

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