Call for submissions: Squeaky Wheel’s 21st Animation Fest!
Send your short animated films to Squeaky Wheel's 21st Animation Fest!
Send your short animated films to Squeaky Wheel's 21st Animation Fest!
Join us at the Buffalo AKG Art Museum or online for the 21st edition of Squeaky Wheel's annual animation fest!
As part of The Big Picture series, Squeaky Wheel is excited to screen Vague Questions by Nick Mas and Silas Rubeck.
Chitrangada Choudhury & Aniket Aga's Seed Stories (2024) forcuses on a village in the Niyamgiri mountains of Odisha's Eastern Ghats, where a heroic effort is underway: barefoot ecologist Dr. Debal Deb and his 3 member-team are conserving in-situ over 1000 endangered heirloom varieties of rice.
Part of the public programs of the exhibition The Image in its Absence, this screening take on archives and collective memories: where we search for and see them, their possibilities and limitations in crafting a collective future.
No Other Land was recorded between 2019–2023 and shows the destruction of the occupied West Bank's Masafer Yatta by Israeli soldiers; and the alliance which develops between the Palestinian activist Basel and Israeli journalist Yuval. The film will be followed by a discussion lead by LOLA and Jewish Voice for Peace Buffalo.
A screening of short films to benefit the farmlands of Gaza, the films in Seed Songs for Palestine engage themes of seed sovereignty and Indigenous resilience, highlighting the intrinsic connections between land, culture, and self-determination.
Submit your short films to the 22nd edition of our annual Animation Fest!
Squeaky Wheel is excited to host the Latin American Film Festival with artist Sofía Gallisá Muriente!
Join us for an evening of delights at Squeaky Wheel's 22nd Animation Fest!
Sri Lanka made headlines in 2022 when a massive economic crisis catalyzed sustained, peaceful protests and forced regime change. Colombo is where policy decisions are made, but in a democracy, it is villages like Dutuwewa that make their voices heard. How has the country coped?
Peter Blow's 1999 documentary traces the human cost of the uranium mining that was used in the U.S.' atomic bombs upon the Sahtu Dene village of Deline in the Northwest Territories.
Come enjoy the work being made by the A/V Club! From documentary to music video to animation, the variety of work created by this talented…
Saturday, February 28th at 4pm Free and open to the public the University at Buffalo CAS Office for Diversity, Equity, and Belonging invite you to…
Nadira, an elderly Palestinian, has been a refugee since the age of 12. Now she has to evacuate Damascus, too. She and her daughter Mona feared for their lives there, but the idea of a safe existence elsewhere is a distant dream. Filmmaker Khaled Jarrar receives unsettling videos and voice messages as they cross to the Greek island of Lesbos. He joins them there, on the long road to a new life.
The Infiltrators tells the true story of a radical group of undocumented youth – Dreamers – who get themselves detained in order to infiltrate a shadowy detention center and help other immigrants get free.
Mexico. The near future. Memo Cruz has always dreamed of leaving his tiny village and heading north. But when he is ultimately forced to leave, Memo finds a future so bizarre – border walls, shantytowns, hi-tech factories, remote control drones and aqua-terrorists – that it looks a lot like today.
“Filled with energy, rage, and the smallest measure of hope, Empty Metal is a new kind of political film for these extraordinary times” -Film Society Lincoln Center
A visceral road movie that chronicles the daily travails of Palestinians of all backgrounds as they seek routes through, under, around, and over a bewildering matrix of barriers and border walls in the highly militarized West Bank.
For just one weekend, watch all four films as part of Infiltrators: Films on borders and resistance online!