Kevin Breslin's short documentary "Living for 32," about Colin Goddard, antigun activist and Virginia Tech shooting survivor, screens Friday 2/25 in the Peace on Earth Film Festival, which runs through Sunday 2/27 at the Chicago Cultural Center.
Proudly "unembedded" in Iraq, Mark Manning claims to be the only Western journalist living among the civilians in the aftermath of the Battle of Fallujah, whose devastating consequences he documented in "The Road to Fallujah," screening for free Tuesday 1/18 at DePaul University.
Hassan Khademi goes inside the the illegal recording studios and interviews the renegade practitioners of the nascent Persian-language rap scene in his 37-minute documentary "Rapping in Tehran," screening Saturday 2/27 in the Peace on Earth Film Festival and Saturday 3/6 in the Chicago International Movies and Music Festival.