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SHSS’ 8th Annual Common Ground Film Festival Ends Mar. 7
Founded in 1982, Search for Common Ground (SFCG) works to transform the way the world deals with conflict – away from adversarial approaches and towards collaborative problem solving. The organization works with local partners to find culturally appropriate means to strengthen societies’ capacity to deal with conflicts constructively: to understand the differences and act on the commonalities
Each year SFCG holds an annual film festival in Washington, DC, and a national student film competition to encourage a common ground ethos among future filmmakers. The films presented at the festival demonstrate that workable solutions can be found to contentious problems. Each year the films travel to colleges and universities throughout the United States.
SHSS has hosted the Common Ground Film Festival since 2002. All films are free and will be shown on NSU’s main campus in the Carl DeSantis Building, Knight Auditorium.
There is one remaining film that SHSS will showcase:
Beyond Belief—92 minutes
Monday, March 7, 6 p.m.
Susan Retik and Patti Quigley are two ordinary soccer moms living in the affluent suburbs of Boston until tragedy strikes. Grief compels these women to focus on the country where the terrorists who took their husbands’ lives were trained: Afghanistan. Over the course of two years, they dedicate themselves to empowering Afghan widows. As Retik and Quigley make the journey from their comfortable neighborhoods to the most desperate Afghan villages, they discover an unlikely kinship with widows halfway around the world.
For more information about the Common Ground Film Festival, visit http://shss.nova.edu/cgff/.