As always, our retrospective and eclectic collection of films explore facets of our theme. And this year we're looking at some films so new they've not been dsitributed yet. Read the online essays (click on the film title) before you watch them, then participate in the panel discussions that follow each screening and you will see these films (and perhaps your world) in a new way...

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	Bella - Premiere (93 min.) Written by Alejandro Gomez Monteverde, Patrick Million, Leo Severino. Directed by Alejandro Gomez Monteverde. An international soccer star is on his way to sign a multi-million dollar contract when something happens that brings his career to an abrupt end. www.bellathemovie.com Panelists: Ali Landry, Ana Maria Montero, Alejandro Gomez Monteverde, Leo Severino, Eduardo Verastegu
	The Trials of Darryl Hunt (2006, 106 min.) Written & Directed by Ricki Stern & Anne Sundberg. North Carolina, 1984: A brutal murder leaves a white woman dead, and a young black man accused. This exclusive portrait of a harrowing wrongful conviction offers a provocative and haunting examination of a community - and a criminal justice system - subject to racial bias and tainted by fear. Panelists: Craig Detweiler, Ricki Stern, Ralph Watkins
	Norma Rae (1979, 110 min.) Written by Harriet Frank Jr. & Irving Ravetch. Directed by Martin Ritt Norma Rae is a southern textile worker employed in a factory with intolerable working conditions. This concern about the situation gives her the gumption to be the key associate to a visiting labor union organizer. Together, they undertake the difficult, and possibly dangerous, struggle to unionize her factory. Panelists: Monica Ganas, Dr. Thom Parham, Rev. Alexia Salvatierra
	The Devil Came on Horseback (2007, 85 minutes) Written & Directed by Ricki Stern & Anne Sundberg. The film exposes the tragedy taking place in Darfur as seen through the eyes of an American witness who has since returned to the US to take action to stop it. Panelists: Raymond Bonniwell, Rabbi Lee T. Bycel, Ricki Stern, Brian Steidle
	Unforgiven (1992, 131 min.) Written by David Webb Peoples. Directed by Clint Eastwood. The town of Big Whisky is full of normal people trying to lead quiet lives. Cowboys try to make a living. Sheriff 'Little Bill' tries to build a house and keep a heavy-handed order. The town whores just try to get by. Then a couple of cowboys cut up a whore. Unsatisfied with Bill's justice, the prostitutes put a bounty on the cowboys. The bounty attracts a young gun billing himself as 'The Schofield Kid,' and aging killer William Munny. Panelists: Jerry L. Jackson, Jeffery Overstreet
	Invisibles (2007, 95 min.) Written & Directed by Mariano Barroso (segment "Los sueños de Bianca"), Isabel Coixet (segment "Cartas a Nora"), Javier Corcuera (segment "La voz de piedras"), Fernando Leon de Aranoa (segment "Buenas noches, Ouma"), Wim Wenders (segment "Invisible Crimes"). A series of short films examining the world's overlooked problems and the people who suffer from them. Presented by Doctors Without Borders. Panelists: Dr. Paul Begin, Jeffery Overstreet
	Water (2005, 114 min.) Written by Anurag Kashyap (dialogue) & Deepa Mehta. Directed by Deepa Mehta. Not yet in her teens, Chuyia is married to a much older and sickly man, who shortly after the marriage, passes away. Chuyia is returned unceremoniously to her parents' house, and from there she is taken to the holy city of Banaras and left in the care of a wide assortment of widows who live at "the widows' house," shunned by the rest of the community. Panelists: Sr. Rose Pacatte, Jeanette Reedy Solano
	What Would Jesus Buy? (2007) Directed by Rob Van Alkemade. The film focuses on the issues of the commercialization of Christmas, materialism, the over-consumption in American culture, globalization and the business practices of large corporations. Panelists: Rob Van Alkemade, Savitri Durkee, Fr. David Gufffey