Movies are made to entertain. However, it can also influence viewers by making a stand on socially-relevant issues. Issue-laden films will be shown at Titus Brandsma Center on October 16 (third Saturday).

Screenings (and merienda as well) are free of charge. These are what to expect:

I Am Cuba/Ya Kuba
Mikhail Kalatozov, Soviet Union/Cuba, 1964.
141 minutes.

Russian auteur Mikhail Kalatozov, who won top honors at Cannes in 1957, made a visually-hypnotic motion picture called "I am Cuba" that not a few would label it as plain propaganda.

However, the revolution that put Fidel Castro into power is one essential piece that completes the puzzle - a Caribbean isle proudly wearing passion on its sleeve and where this Latin nation's irrepresible spirit can be felt even in the breeze, as it repeatedly bends the countless palm leaves in the countryside.

1996 Independent Spirit Awards Best Foreign Film (nom). 1996 National Society of Film Critics Awards, USA Archival Award (win).

Direction: Mikhail Kalatozov. Screenplay: Enrique Pineda Barnet, Yevgeny Yevtushenko. Cinematography: Sergei Urusevsky. Editing: Nina Glagoleva. Production Design: Yevgeni Svidetelev. Musical Score: Carlos Fariņas. Cast: Sergio Corrieri, Salvador Wood, Jose Gallardo, Raul Garcia, Luz Maria Collaso, Jean Bouise.

Rabbit-Proof Fence
Phillip Noyce, Australia, 2002.
94 minutes.

A century ago in Australia, the white settlers and the native aborigines know their place in society and a rabbit-proof fence, stretching many kilometers across the Australian landscape, serves as their own version of the Berlin Wall.

However, it's a no man's land for those of mixed parentage. A trio of kids refuse that label and stick to their aboriginal side instead. The authorities