Cinema Politica - Events Feed

No End In Sight

Mon, 28 Jan 2008 21:44:49 -0500

Start: 02/05/2008 - 7:30pm

End: 02/05/2008 - 9:30pm

A candid retelling of the events following the fall of Baghdad in 2003 by high ranking officials such as former Deputy Secretary of State Richard Armitage, Ambassador Barbara Bodine (in charge of Baghdad during the Spring of 2003), Lawrence Wilkerson, former Chief of Staff to Colin Powell, and General Jay Garner (in charge of the occupation of Iraq through May 2003) as well as Iraqi civilians, American soldiers, and prominent analysts.

The Price of Sugar

Mon, 28 Jan 2008 21:45:47 -0500

Start: 02/19/2008 - 7:30pm

End: 02/19/2008 - 9:00pm

On the Caribbean island of the Dominican Republic, tourists flock to pristine beaches unaware that a few miles away thousands of dispossessed Haitians have toiled under armed-guard on plantations harvesting sugarcane, much of which ends up in U.S. kitchens. They work grueling hours and frequently lack decent housing, clean water, electricity, education or healthcare. "The Price of Sugar" follows Father Christopher Hartley, a charismatic Spanish priest, as he organizes some of this hemisphere's poorest people, challenging powerful interests profiting from their work.

Le Peuple Invisible

Sun, 09 Mar 2008 15:43:58 -0400

Start: 03/12/2008 - 7:30pm

End: 03/12/2008 - 9:00pm

Once so vast, the land of the Quebec Algonquin has shrunk dramatically. This hard-hitting documentary provides a sympathetic glimpse of a nation of 9,000 people who suffer in silence as the rest of us look the other way.

Avenge But One of My Two Eyes

Mon, 28 Jan 2008 21:47:18 -0500

Start: 03/18/2008 - 7:30pm

End: 03/18/2008 - 7:30pm

Films about the effects of Israeli occupation on the Palestianian population are always bound to be inflammatory and subject to often unfair, prejudicial criticism of justifying terrorism, and this ugliness unfortunately surfaced from a particularly hostile member of the audience at the Q&A with filmmaker Avi Mograbi for his penetrating documentary Avenge But One of My Two Eyes. At the heart of Mograbi's organic essay is the juxtaposition of two events.