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From Monday, March 31, through Sunday, April 6, the 11th annual edition of FLEFF will be offering open forums, music, films and multimedia events in order to get the Ithaca, NY community and beyond to think about our relationship to sustainability. Organizing this year's FLEFF are Ithaca College professors Patricia Zimmerman, in the cinema, photography and media arts department, and Thomas Shevory, chair of the politics department.

Even though one of the main focuses of sustainability is in the environmental sector, FLEFF examines sustainability from all realms of thinking and issues. The festival this year will focus on four content streams: Camouflage, Counterpoint, Games and Gastronomica. In these categories there are 150 presentations which could include films, essays, digital art, minicourses, silent films with live music, art exhibits, and community discussions.

Most of the events are on Ithaca College's campus and will be free and open to the public. But there will also be 25 feature-length film screenings at the independent movie houses downtown, Cinemapolis and Fall Creek, that are not free. You can get a discount for six passes at the Ithaca College bookstore and the theaters themselves. (The two theaters are merging into one soon, so if you haven't been, it's the perfect time to still catch them!) Many of the downtown films will feature visiting filmmakers and guests.

And if you're still in Ithaca around April 22 (Earth Day!) make sure you come to Leondardo DiCaprio's Documentary, The 11th Hour screening in the Park Auditorium at Ithaca College starting at 7:30pm...shameless plug for my event I know.