ScreenPeace Film Festival showcases peace building in action | News | Notre Dame News | University of Notre Dame Skip To Content Skip To Navigation Skip To Search University of Notre Dame Notre Dame News Experts ND in the News Subscribe About Us Home Contact Search Menu Home › News › ScreenPeace Film Festival showcases peace building in action ScreenPeace Film Festival showcases peace building in action Published: February 05, 2018 Author: Kristi Flaherty Screenpeace Update, February 9: Due to the snowy weather, ScreenPeace films for Friday (Feb. 9) have been canceled. We regret this last minute change. Film screenings for Saturday and Sunday are still scheduled to continue.    This weekend, the ScreenPeace Film Festival will explore strategic peace building around the world through five free film screenings, running Friday-Sunday (Feb. 9-11) at the Browning Cinema of the DeBartolo Performing Arts Center on the University of Notre Dame campus. The festival is co-sponsored by Notre Dame’s Kroc Institute for International Peace Studies and the DeBartolo Performing Arts Center.   The annual festival will showcase five recent, critically acclaimed films that present compelling models of peace building in the face of injustice or violent conflict. The films and their subjects span the globe, featuring stories from Afghanistan, the Democratic Republic of Congo, France, Guatemala, Greece and Iraq, among others, and address wide-ranging themes including human displacement, migration and immigration; indigenous movements for justice; former combatants speaking out for peace; politics and peace building; gender, race and movements for justice; and more.    This year’s films were selected by a six-person committee chaired by Patrick Regan, professor of political science and peace studies. Regan was joined by Jennifer Betz, assistant director of the master’s program at the Kroc Institute; Richard Herbst, cinema program director for the DeBartolo Center; Olivier Morel, assistant professor of Romance languages and literatures and film, television and theater at Notre Dame; and two Notre Dame students, John Haley and Eric Ways.    Each film will be introduced by a Notre Dame faculty member, and two of the screenings will feature a special event to promote further conversation about the film’s themes. On Saturday (Feb. 10), following the film "Disturbing the Peace," which profiles the role of former combatants and soldiers in advocating for peace around the world, David Cortright, director of policy studies and the Peace Accords Matrix project at the Kroc Institute, will facilitate a Skype conversation with American Friends of Combatants for Peace board member Nizar Farsakh and Combatants for Peace co-founder Elik Elhanan.    On Sunday (Feb. 11), "Human Flow," a film exploring themes of human displacement and migration around the world, will be followed by a panel conversation facilitated by Regan and featuring Kevin Appleby, senior director of international migration policy for the Center for Migration Studies; Lisa Koop, associate director of legal services at the National Immigrant Justice Center; and Yidi Wu, assistant professor of history at Saint Mary’s College, South Bend, Indiana.    All ScreenPeace film screenings are free of charge, but require tickets. To order tickets, call the DeBartolo Center ticket office at 574-631-2800 or purchase them online at www.performingarts.nd.edu.   The full film schedule is as follows: 6:30 p.m. Feb. 9:  BPM – Beats Per Minute (2017) Canceled due to weather 9:30 p.m. Feb. 9:  Mama Colonel Canceled due to weather 6:30 p.m. Feb. 10: Disturbing the Peace 9:30 p.m. Feb. 10: 500 Years 3 p.m. Feb. 11: Human Flow The Kroc Institute for International Peace Studies is part of the Keough School of Global Affairs at the University of Notre Dame.    Originally published by Kristi Flaherty at kroc.nd.edu on Jan. 15. Posted In: International Home Experts ND in the News Subscribe About Us Related September 30, 2022 Nanovic Institute to welcome former President of Croatia Kolinda Grabar-Kitarović September 29, 2022 Notre Dame, Ukrainian Catholic University launch three new research grants September 27, 2022 Notre Dame, Trinity College Dublin engineers join to advance novel treatment for cystic fibrosis September 14, 2022 Apostolic nuncio to Great Britain to deliver the 2022 Keeley Vatican Lecture September 12, 2022 Can you tell me how to get to Sesame Street … in different countries? For the Media Contact Office of Public Affairs and Communications Notre Dame News 500 Grace Hall Notre Dame, IN 46556 USA Facebook Twitter Instagram YouTube Pinterest © 2022 University of Notre Dame Search Mobile App News Events Visit Accessibility Facebook Twitter Instagram YouTube LinkedIn