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This groundbreaking documentary dissects a slanderous aspect of cinematic history that has run virtually unchallenged form the earliest days of silent film to today's biggest Hollywood blockbusters. Featuring acclaimed author Dr. Jack Shaheen, the film explores a long line of degrading images of Arabs--from Bedouin bandits and submissive maidens to sinister sheikhs and gun-wielding "terrorists"--along the way offering devastating insights into the origin of these stereotypic images, their development at key points in US history, and why they matter so much today.

WELCOME BACK CONCORDIA (AND NEW) STUDENTS!!

Our first film of the season is on glorious 35mm film print and is a stunning documentary about conservation, ecology and activism. See you at this first CP Concordia screening where you can grab your Fall 2007 Programme.

SYNOPSIS: For filmmaker Rob Stewart, exploring sharks began as an underwater adventure. What it turned into was a beautiful and dangerous life journey into the balance of life on earth.

The new film from the director of Megacities: 12 Stories of Survival.

Today's manual laborers are no longer celebrated with hymns of praise. They must be content with encouraging one another that backbreaking work is better than no work at all...

**Winner of the 2007 Latin American Studies Association CASA Award of Merit in Film**

This groundbreaking documentary dissects a slanderous aspect of cinematic history that has run virtually unchallenged form the earliest days of silent film to today's biggest Hollywood blockbusters. Featuring acclaimed author Dr. Jack Shaheen, the film explores a long line of degrading images of Arabs--from Bedouin bandits and submissive maidens to sinister sheikhs and gun-wielding "terrorists"--along the way offering devastating insights into the origin of these stereotypic images, their development at key points in US history, and why they matter so much today.

L'Esmeralda est l'un des plus beaux voiliers du monde. C'est le navire-école de la marine chilienne et un objet de fierté nationale. Mais aujourd'hui la Dame Blanche, comme les Chiliens la surnomment, ne fait plus illusion. Cette beauté cache un passé trouble. Celui d'un bateau-prison utilisé dans le port de Valparaíso comme centre de torture au lendemain du coup d'État de 1973. Trente ans plus tard, l'impunité demeure et les autorités militaires continuent de nier. Aujourd'hui, les victimes de la dictature se mobilisent et demandent justice.

This film is part of a double bill, to be screened with Out of Balance: Exxon Mobil's Impact on Climate Change.

This film is part of a double bill, to be screened with Toxic Sludge is Good for You: The PR Industry Unspun.