SUNY Oneonta will present a screening of the award-winning political documentary “The Anatomy of Hate: A Dialogue for Hope” by filmmaker Michael Ramsdell at 4 p.m. Tuesday, Feb. 28, in the Craven Lounge of the Morris Conference Center. The screening, which will include a discussion with Ramsdell, is free and open to the public.

Named Best Political Documentary at the 2009 Philadelphia Independent Film Festival, the 90-minute film represents Ramsdell’s quest for answers to an age-old question: “Why do we hate?” The film examines some of the most venomous ideologies and violent conflicts of the modern age, including the White Supremacist movement, Muslim extremism, Palestinian Intifada, Israeli settlers and soldiers, and U.S. forces in Iraq. First-hand footage is interspersed with interviews with leading sociological, psychological and neurological experts, along with tales of redemption told by former “haters.”

“What I found was, for me, life-changing,” Ramsdell says in a director’s statement about the film. “There was no boogieman, no devil nor any person of evil at the center of all this violence, war and hate. Instead I found a planet full of creatures doing their best to fill the void of existence with limited psychological tools, and emotional shortcomings — myself included.”

More information about this event is available from Mary Bonderoff at (607) 436-2663 or mary.bonderoff@oneonta.edu.