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CSUEB Diversity Film Festival focuses on autism with "Her Name is Sabine"

Her name is Sabine movie poster

Her name is Sabine movie poster

  • May 9, 2011 6:40am

Her Name Is Sabine (2007) is the next film scheduled in the CSUEB Diversity Film Festival sponsored by the Faculty Learning Community for Diversity, Multicultural Learning, and Social Justice. The film will be shown Thurs, May 12.

French actress turned filmmaker Sandrine Bonnaire crafts a deeply personal portrait of her sister Sabine Bonnaire, a 38-year-old autistic woman, and examines the inadequacies of the health care system in this moving foreign-language documentary. After languishing for five years in a psychiatric hospital, Sabine was ultimately transferred to a home in the Charentes region of France, where her innate talent blossomed and flourished.

Admission is free and open to all. Her Name is Sabine will be shown from 6pm to 8pm in Music Building MB-2099. For information, please contact Monique Manopoulos, assistant professor and chair of Modern Languages and Literatures at:

monique.manopoulos@csueastbay.edu

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