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CORVALLIS - Oregon State University's eighth annual Feminist Film Festival, "War, What is it Good For?" starts at 6 p.m. on Friday, April 22 in the university's Memorial Union Room 206.

Free and open to the public, the four-hour festival is being held in conjunction with OSU's Conference on Gender and Culture. Three feature films will be presented.

"Calling the Ghosts: A Story about Rape, War and Women" is a 1996 documentary about of two women caught in war in Bosnia-Herzegovina. Jadranka Cigelj and Nusreta Sivac, childhood friends and lawyers, enjoyed the lives of "ordinary modern women" in Bosnia-Herzegovina until one day former neighbors became tormentors. Taken to the concentration camp of Omarska, the two women describe being systematically tortured and humiliated by their captors.

"War Takes," a 2002 film, traces three Colombian filmmakers who for four years turned their cameras on themselves, using personal stories to expose reality in their country.

"This is Not Living," a 2001 film, explores the lives of eight Palestinian women and their struggle to live normal lives amid war, terror and military occupation.

In addition to the features, a trilogy of short films will be shown between the feature films.