09 / 15
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09 / 16
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09 / 17
Start: 19:30
End: 21:30
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. | ||
09 / 18
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09 / 19
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09 / 20
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09 / 21
Start: 19:00
End: 21:00
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... Start: 19:30
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. Start: 19:30
End: 22:00
**Winner of the 2007 Latin American Studies Association CASA Award of Merit in Film** | ||
09 / 22
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09 / 23
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09 / 24
Start: 18:15
End: 20:30
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. Start: 19:30
This film is part of a double bill, to be screened with Out of Balance: Exxon Mobil's Impact on Climate Change. Start: 20:30
This film is part of a double bill, to be screened with Toxic Sludge is Good for You: The PR Industry Unspun. | ||
09 / 25
Start: 16:30
Screened to audiences at the Cannes, Toronto, and New York film festivals, this fresh, irresistibly lively, intensely engaging documentary from widely acclaimed Egyptian director Tahani Rached (SORAÏDA, WOMAN OF PALESTINE and FOUR WOMEN OF EGYPT) follows a band of teenage girls living on the streets of Cairo. Rached won astonishing access to the girls’ world; this vigorous, cinematic film is built upon the deep trust of its subjects and the long experience of the filmmaker. Start: 19:00
End: 22:00
CORPORATIONS IN THE CLASSROOM Director Jill Sharpe’s latest documentary reveals that our children are no longer safe from advertising even when at school. Because funding for education is falling short, teachers and administrators are struggling to keep the gates closed to marketing companies. It’s called Trojan horse marketing and it works like a charm in creating life-long brand name consumers not life-long learners. | ||
09 / 26
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09 / 27
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09 / 28
Start: 19:00
End: 21:00
is a feature-length documentary about the 1998 racially motivated murder of James Byrd Jr. in Jasper, Texas. 2003. On June 7, 1998, a sleepy east Texas town awoke to the news of a horrifying crime. Early that Sunday morning, James Byrd Jr., an African-American, was viciously beaten, chained to the back of a pick-up truck, and dragged for three miles until his body was torn apart. Three white men, John William King, Lawrence Russell Brewer, and Shawn Berry - all with ties to the Arayan Nation - were arrested and charged with kidnapping and murder. | ||
09 / 29
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09 / 30
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10 / 1
Start: 19:30
This film is part of a double bill, to be screened with Black and White. RED WITHOUT BLUE is an artistic and groundbreaking portrayal of gender, identity, and the unswerving bond of twinship despite transformation. An honest portrayal of a family in turmoil, RWB follows a pair of identical twins as one transitions from male to female. Captured over a period of three years, the film documents the twins and their parents, examining the Farley's struggle to redefine their family. Start: 19:30
This film is part of a double bill, to be screened with Red Without Blue. | ||
10 / 2
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10 / 3
Start: 19:00
A film about food and globalization, fishermen and farmers, long-distance lorry drivers and high-powered corporate executives, the flow of goods and cash flow -- in a word, a film about scarcity and plenty. With its unforgettable images, WE FEED THE WORLD provides insight into the production of our food and answers the question: "what does world hunger have to do with us?" | ||
10 / 4
Start: 16:00
End: 18:00
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. | ||
10 / 5
Start: 19:00
End: 23:23
Directed by Milena Kaneva Cast: Ka Hsaw Wa as Himself Produced by Milena Kaneva Original Music by Nikolay Ivanov Sound mixer Vladislav Boyadjiev ONE MAN, wanted by the law both in Burma and in Thailand - KA HSAW WA. SLAVE LABOR, a common practice in BURMA, a country now called Myanmar, controlled by a military dictatorship. Two WESTERN CORPORATIONS making business deals with a junta infamous for HUMAN RIGHTS ABUSES. This is the story of the construction of the UNOCAL/TOTAL oil pipeline in Burma. Start: 19:00
End: 21:00
A complex historical truth emerges in Nicolas Rossier's intelligent examination revealing the oft-supressed story of the 2004 coup d'etat in Haiti, as well as the systemic violence and human rights violations that erupted under the interim government. An interview with the deposed president, Jean-Bertrand Aristide in Pretoria, South Africa, is juxtaposed with the views of a wide range of supporters and critics, including US Assistant Secretary of State Roger Noriega. Start: 19:30
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... Start: 19:30
FAVELA RISING documents a man and a movement, a city divided and a favela (Brazilian squatter settlement) united. Haunted by the murders of his family and many of his friends, Anderson Sá is a former drug-trafficker who turns social revolutionary in Rio de Janeiro’s most feared slum. Through hip-hop music, the rhythms of the street, and Afro-Brazilian dance he rallies his community to counteract the violent oppression enforced by teenage drug armies and sustained by corrupt police. | ||
10 / 6
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10 / 7
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10 / 8
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10 / 9
Start: 19:00
The most stigmatized people in Calcutta's red light district are not the prostitutes, but their children. In the face of abject poverty, abuse, and despair, these kids have little possibility of escaping their mother's fate or for creating another type of life. Start: 19:30
This special CANADIAN PREMIER will feature the director in attendance and is co-sponsored by Solidarity for Palestinian Human Rights (SPHR). A thought-provoking and powerful documentary film on the current and historical root causes of the Israeli-Palestinian conflict. Unlike any other film ever produced on the conflict -- 'Occupation 101' presents a comprehensive analysis of the facts and hidden truths surrounding the never ending controversy and dispels many of its long-perceived myths and misconceptions. | ||
10 / 10
Start: 19:00
End: 21:00
An opus in three parts, IRAQ IN FRAGMENTS offers a series of intimate, passionately-felt portraits: A fatherless 11-year-old is apprenticed to the domineering owner of a Bagdad garage; Sadr followers in two Shiite cities rally for regional elections while enforcing Islamic law at the point of a gun; a family of Kurdish farmers welcomes the US presence, which has allowed them a measure of freedom previously denied. | ||
10 / 11
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10 / 12
Start: 19:00
End: 23:00
This first person documentary follows Julia Query, lesbian/stand-up comedian/peepshow-stripper, and daughter of a feminist activist, on her raucous journey to help organize the only union of strippers in the United States. Shot on a variety of formats, Live Nude Girls Unite! weaves backstage and dancing footage with labor organizing, street protests, stand-up comedy and comic-book style "animation" making an intelligent and dramatic cutting-edge film. Start: 19:00
End: 21:00
A feature-length, multi-award winning documentary by Native American filmmaker Alanis Obomsawin set in the thick of the armed confrontation between Native American Mohawks and Canadian government forces during the 1990 standoff in the | ||
10 / 13
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10 / 14
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10 / 15
Start: 18:15
End: 20:30
Les rives du plus grand lac tropical du monde, considéré comme le berceau de l’humanité, sont aujourd’hui le théâtre du pire cauchemar de la mondialisation. En Tanzanie, dans les années 60, la Perche du Nil, un prédateur vorace, fût introduite dans le lac Victoria à titre d’expérience scientifique. Depuis, pratiquement toutes les populations de poissons indigènes ont été décimées. De cette catastrophe écologique est née une industrie fructueuse, puisque la chair blanche de l’énorme poisson est exportée avec succès dans tout l’hémisphère nord. Start: 19:30
Director's statement: men rule the world and try to dominate women and their lives. violence against women has many forms – physical, psychological, economical and social. the frameworks and names that allow violence are called honor, family peace, paid sexual workers, culture... the only chance against violence directed towards women is to change the culture of male domination – in all senses. Start: 19:30
This screening is co-presented by the Centre for Native Education at Concordia. Dawn Crey. Ramona Wilson. Daleen Kay Bosse. These are just three of the estimated 500 Aboriginal women who have gone missing or been murdered in Canada over the past thirty years. Directed by acclaimed Métis filmmaker Christine Welsh, Finding Dawn is a compelling documentary that puts a human face to this national tragedy. | ||
