Film Screening: Farewell to Manzanar on March 22

Film Summary: After the attack on Pearl Harbor, seven-year-old Jeanne Wakatsuki, her family and 11,000 other Americans of Japanese descent and their immigrant parents are imprisoned in the internment camp Manzanar in California.

The film screening is part of Sioux City Reads, a community-wide reading initiative with the goal of bringing readers together around one book. The 2026 title is The River We Remember by William Kent Krueger. The River We Remember is a standalone historical mystery novel by William Kent Krueger, set in 1958 in Jewel, Minnesota. The story explores themes related the aftermath of World War II, all centered around the murder of a prominent citizen and the complex characters involved – including a Native American veteran and his Japanese wife.

When: Sunday, March 22 at 2 pm (film runtime is 105 minutes)

Where: Aalfs Downtown Library