
The 13th United Nations Association Film Festival (UNAFF) was held from October 22- 31, 2010 in Palo Alto, Stanford University, East Palo Alto and San Francisco. The theme for the year was POPULATION–MIGRATION–GLOBALIZATION.
Over 600 submissions from all over the world were reviewed. Our final program consisted of sixty films related to Afghanistan, Australia, Austria, Bangladesh, Brazil, Burkina Faso, Cambodia, Cameroon, Canada, China, Colombia, Congo, Côte d'Ivoire, Czech Republic, Dominican Republic, Ecuador, Egypt, Ethiopia, France, Germany, Ghana, Greece, Guatemala, Haiti, Jordan, Kenya, Kyrgyzstan, India, Iraq, Iran, Israel, Italy, Lebanon, Mali, Malawi, Mexico, Mozambique, New Zealand, North Korea, Pakistan, Palestine, Papa New Guinea, Poland, Russia, Sierra Leone, Spain, Somalia, South Africa, South Korea, Senegal, Sudan, Switzerland, Thailand, Tuvalu, Uganda, the UK, the US, Uzbekistan, Vietnam, and West Papua.
Encouraged by the overwhelmingly positive response from audiences and the media, the UNAFF continues year-round screenings through its Traveling Film Festival.
The 2010 award winners were:
Read more about each of these masterful 2010 films and see the ongoing traveling schedule on the UNA Film Festival website.
The UNA screens films from the Travelling UNA Film Festival at the Avenidas Senior Center in Palo Alto at 2pm on the second Monday of the month. Admission is free.
The UNA Book Club meets on the 3rd Tuesday of the month in Mountain View, focusing on United Nations issues and related topics. See the list of upcoming books, dates, and location.