Free event: Solar Mamas

Who needs a film festival?  Free movies abound in Chicago!

This next pick, Solar Mamas, is a documentary taking place in Jordan about the Bedouan woman, Rafea.  She has the unusual distinction of being the first Jordanian woman to join a edcuation program to create solar energy engineers.  This program was created for women of poor and third world countries to help educate them and offer economic support to their families.

This part of PBS' Independent Lens series.

Solar Mamas
November 17, 2012
2:00 p.m.
Cultural Center
Claudia Cassidy Theatre
77 E. Randolph Street

CIFF 2011: Cairo 678

I think the best intent of an international film festival is to screen films from countries that bring to light a topic fairly unique to that country yet still identifiable to people around the world. Cairo 678 is such a film. It involves the actions taken by three different women in Egypt in their attempt to fight their society and culture's views of women and the harassment they face on a daily basis.