This festival, now in its eleventh year, highlights film and video shorts as well as features by women, including documentary, animated, narrative, and experimental works. Tickets for individual programs are $6, $5 for Women in the Director’s Chair members, students, and senior citizens with a valid ID; festival passes are also available. Screenings will be held at Chicago Filmmakers, 1229 W. Belmont, and the Film Center, Art Institute, Columbus Drive at Jackson. Film Center programs are $5, $3 for members. For further information call 281-4988.
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POLITICS A program including Patrice O’Neill and Rhian Miller’s This Far by Faith (1991), a video documentary about the largest strike by black workers in the history of Mississippi; J.T. Takagi and Christine Choy’s Homes Apart: Korea (1991), a documentary about displaced Korean families; Jean Carlomusto’s “L” Is for the Way You Look (1991), a video about the way lesbians look at female performers; and Anna J. Seeto’s Remember (1991), a video commentary on recent events in China. (Chicago Filmmakers, 9:00)
SATURDAY, MARCH 7
SUNDAY, MARCH 8