Films ranging from “Baghdad ER” to “Rights on the Line: Vigilantes at the Border” are among 31 documentaries from 30 countries that will be shown at the United Nations Association Film Festival at Stanford University Oct. 25-29.
Marjaneh Mogimi, a filmmaker and resident of Menlo Park, produced “Pilgrimage,” about Shiite Muslims from Iran who risk their lives to visit the holy city of Karbala, about 50 miles south of Baghdad.
The festival, which UNAFF at Stanford University sponsors, promotes documentary filmmaking as a tool for social and political understanding.
The festival will close on an upbeat note with “Sierra Leone’s Refugee All Stars,” the story of musicians who bring hope and happiness to their fellow refugees.
For more information about screening times and places, and admission prices, go to www.unaff.org or call 724-5544.
Shop for charity
Family Service Agency of San Mateo County is one of seven Peninsula charities that will benefit from Bloomingdale’s annual day of shopping for charity from 10 a.m. to 10 p.m. Thursday, Oct. 26, at Bloomingdale’s in Stanford Shopping Center. Other charities are: Avenidas, Kara, Peninsula Humane Society & SPCA, Ronald McDonald House at Stanford, TheatreWorks, and Vista Center for the Blind and Visually Impaired.
Shoppers will receive 15 percent off on almost every item purchased. The day will also include entertainment and a noon fashion show in the “New View” department, where members of Family Service’s Hillsborough Auxiliary will model the latest fashions.
Tickets are $10 at the door. Proceeds will be divided evenly among participating charities. For more information, call Bloomingdale’s at 463-2201.
