Cornell Cinema will host three documentary filmmakers March 10-12 to present their "real world work" on war in Darfur, on a landmark American hate crime and on the history of the African diaspora. All screenings are in Willard Straight Theatre.

Executive producer M.K. Asante will introduce "500 Years Later" on March 10 at 7 p.m., a film about the collective atrocities that uprooted Africans from their homelands and scattered them into the New World. Asante's visit is sponsored by the Coalition of Pan-African Scholars (COAS) as part of Afrika Week 2006 at Cornell. COAS will host a public reception for Asante at 5:30 p.m. in the Willard Straight Hall International Lounge that will feature a discussion of the film, a poetry reading and book signing. For more information about Afrika Week, visit http://www.rso.cornell.edu/coas.

"All About Darfur" director Taghreed Elsanhouri, a participant in the March 10-12 symposium, "Challenges to Humanitarian Action in the Twenty-First Century: Lessons from the Most Difficult Cases," will introduce her film, a sensitive portrayal of the war in Darfur giving voice to everyday Sudanese people, on March 11 at 7 p.m. For more information on the symposium, visit http://einaudi.cornell.edu/europe/events/calendar.asp.

Keith Beauchamp will present his film "The Untold Story of Emmett Louis Till" on March 12 at 6:30 p.m., in conjunction with "Strange Fruit: Lynching, Visuality and Empire," a March 11 symposium at the Africana Studies and Research Center at 310 Triphammer Road.

Till, 14, was kidnapped and murdered in 1955 in Mississippi; the two men tried for the crime were acquitted by an all-white jury and then sold their story, including details of how they beat and shot the boy. Beauchamp's film, which originally aired on the Public Broadcasting Service series "American Experience," led to the U.S. Department of Justice reopening the Till case in 2004. The free screening will be followed by a question-and-answer session with Beauchamp and Vice Provost Robert Harris Jr., professor of Africana studies.

The symposium, addressing lynching violence and the politics of representation, is organized by the Society for the Humanities; co-sponsors include the Cornell chapter of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People. For more information, visit http://www.arts.cornell.edu/sochum.

Other special events this month at Cornell Cinema include:

Cornell Cinema tickets are $6 general admission, $4.75 for students and senior citizens, and $4 for Cornell graduate students. For more information on all screenings, call (607) 255-3522 or visit http://cinema.cornell.edu.