The Massachusetts Multicultural Film Festival presents Rocks In My Pockets (dir Signe Baumane, Latvia, 2014, 88 min)

This animated feature is a funny film about depression. Fighting for her sanity, a young artist uses wit and imagination to confront the secrets of her family’s madness in this true story brimming with visual metaphors, surreal images, and a certain twisted sense of humor. The film will be introduced by Prof. Olga Gershenson of the Judaic & Near Eastern Studies Dept., UMass Amherst. The director will be present for a Q&A session after the screening.

The event is free and open to the public and is co-sponsored by the Communication Dept. More information about the film is available here.