Critic Stephen Farber's Monday night series continues with Ballast (2008), about an African-American family's struggle with life in the Mississippi Delta. Writer-director Lance Hammer, winner of the best directing award at Sundance this year, will guest speak.

Mon., Oct. 13, 7 p.m., 2008

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