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Jennifer

by Stewart Copeland

Premiere: September 22, 2009

Filmmaker Stewart Copeland explores his relationship with his late mother and the distance spaces between memory and history. (Short film shown with Bronx Princess.)

Our House in Havana

by Stephen Olsson

Premiere: July 25, 2000

After 40 years, Silvia Morini returns to the palatial house of her youth in Cuba, where her nostalgia for a pre-Castro world confronts modern Cuban reality. Yet as Silvia discovers an evolving Cuba, she herself undergoes a surprising change-not entirely altering her political outlook but becoming, as she puts it, "more human."

Regret to Inform

by Barbara Sonneborn, Janet Cole

Premiere: January 4, 2000

Exploring the meaning of war and loss with Vietnamese and American widows into a vivid testament to the chilling legacy of war.

Maya Lin

by Freida Lee Mock

Premiere: November 27, 1996

The Vietnam War Memorial was one of the most controversial monuments of its time. Thrust in to the eye of the storm was architect-sculptor Maya Lin, whose design for the memorial was chosen when she was a 21-year-old college student. Withstanding bitter attacks, she held her ground with clarity and grace.