In 1999, the residents of Tambogrande, a small town in northern Peru, learned that the Fujimori government had secretly granted mining concessions on their land to the multi-national corporation, Manhattan Minerals. The company's plans for an open-pit gold mine would involve relocation of half of the town's residents, and contaminate the soil and ground water in this agricultural region famous for its fruit orchards.
Events
11 / 12
Start: 19:30
This special CANADIAN PREMIERE screening will be feature director John Pilger in attendance, for the first time in Canada. The event is a collaboration with the Human Rights Media Institute. SYNOPSIS: | ||
11 / 13
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11 / 14
Start: 19:00
End: 21:00
When did feminism become a bad word? Join filmmaker Therese Shechter as she takes a funny, moving Armed with a video camera and an irreverent sense of humor, Start: 19:00
End: 20:30
After working his way through Venezuela, and the Amazon he arrived at the Third World Social Forum in Porte Alegre, Brasil. While waiting for Noam Chomsky to speak in front of 20, 000 participants, he was captivated by the speech of Leonilda Zurita, leader of the Bartolina Sisa Bolivian Federation of women peasant farmers. She was pleading for the world to take notice of the undeclared war that was being waged against her people. She was speaking at the World Social Forum after enduring 13 days of struggle in which 9 of her companions had been killed by Bolivian security forces. Start: 19:00
End: 21:00
The following documentaries will be screened: Green Green Water Water Thieves | ||
11 / 15
Start: 16:00
End: 17:30
Version française à venir. On September 12, 2002 twenty "at risk" 12-year-old boys from the tough streets of inner-city Baltimore left home to attend the 7th and 8th grade at Baraka, an experimental boarding school located in Kenya, East Africa. Here, faced with a strict academic and disciplinary program as well as the freedom to be normal teenage boys, these brave kids began the daunting journey towards putting their lives on a fresh path. | ||
11 / 16
Start: 19:00
End: 21:00
Since 1999, more than 2,000 women have been murdered in Guatemala, with numbers escalating every year, yet lawmakers and government officials turn a blind eye. Powerful and uncompromising, Killer's Paradise uncovers an emotionally wrenching human rights tragedy, while exposing an inept judicial system that allows it to happen. After almost four decades of civil war, Guatemala is a troubled society, but it can also be seen as a microcosm of the pervasive violence and injustice against women worldwide. Discussion with the Maritimes-Guatemala Breaking the Silence Network. Start: 19:30
This special PREMIER SCREENING is in conjunction with the Rencontres internationales du documentaire de Montréal (RIDM) - Montreal's documentary film festival. Special thanks to the producers and the Bavarian Institute for their cooperation in making this screening happen. | ||
11 / 17
Start: 13:00
End: 15:00
In the Same Boat? tells the story of two neighboring fishing communities – one Mi’kmaq, the other non-native - both struggling to defend their ways of life. Shot on Nova Scotia's Bay of Fundy coast, the two-part documentary explores the grounds for solidarity between indigenous and non-native communities, while showing the very different role fishing plays in both cultures. | ||
11 / 18
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11 / 19
Start: 18:15
End: 21:00
Dommages de guerre en temps de paix. Depuis 1990, les Forces canadiennes ne cessent de se déployer en divers endroits de la planète : Golfe Persique, Rwanda, Bosnie, Afghanistan, Cambodge, Haïti, Liban... Start: 19:30
This short from the CBC's Digital Diversity Program, will be screened before Start: 19:30
In 1999, the residents of Tambogrande, a small town in northern Peru, learned that the Fujimori government had secretly granted mining concessions on their land to the multi-national corporation, Manhattan Minerals. The company's plans for an open-pit gold mine would involve relocation of half of the town's residents, and contaminate the soil and ground water in this agricultural region famous for its fruit orchards. | ||
11 / 20
Start: 19:00
End: 22:00
Did you know that the Canadian post office is currently being sued by an American corporation under the rules of NAFTA? Free trade or subtle sellout? The feature documentary Hoodwinked: The Myth of Free Trade examines some of the less-talked-about effects of free trade and corporate globalization on Canada. It was produced by West/Dunn Productions of Ottawa. | ||
11 / 21
Start: 19:00
End: 21:00
One of the most controversial issues of our times: Vancouver's struggle to open Canada's first safeinjection site for drug users. It is the story of a man and a city fighting drugs and addiction. Dean Wilson used to be an IBM salesman. Now he is possible the most outspoken drug addict in Canada. Ann Livingston is the charismatic organizer of Vancouver Area Network of Drug Users. She is a nonuser, driven by an impatient spirituality. In 27 cities around the world, safe injection sites have proven to save lives. | ||
11 / 22
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11 / 23
Start: 19:00
End: 21:00
"... This film about consumerism totally consumed us. It used the language of music video, propaganda and commercial advertising as a response to the forces of globalisation. It fights fire with fire. The questions it raises are ultimately more important than any answers it might suggest. And we believe audiences can only profit from the debate that will ensue. For its originality, sense of humour, irony, forcefulness and visual virtuosity, the Silver Wolf Award goes to SURPLUS." Start: 19:00
End: 23:00
In the Year of the Pig is a 1968 documentary film about the origins of the Vietnam War, directed by Emile de Antonio. It was nominated for an Academy award for best documentary. The film, which is in black and white, contains much historical footage and many interviews. Those interviewed include Harry S. Ashmore, Daniel Berrigan, Philippe Devillers, David Halberstam, Roger Hillsman, Jean Lacouture, Kenneth P. Landon, Thruston B. Morton, Paul Mus, Charlton Osburn, Harrison Salisbury, Ilya Todd, John Toller, David K. Tuck, David Werfel, and John White. Start: 19:00
End: 21:00
The banana is the cheapest fruit you can buy in Canada at any time of the year and Canadians eat approximately 3 billion bananas a year. In Canadian supermarkets bananas account for over 10% of total sales in the produce section and 1% of total sales. All this despite the fact that the nearest plantation is 5000 kilometres away and the banana is the most perishable fruit on our store shelves. Banana Split takes the viewer on a journey that begins with the hustle and bustle of a fruit market in Thunder Bay, Ontario and ends up with an examination of the daily challenges of life in Honduras. Start: 19:30
End: 19:31
Eighty-year-old Jimmy Mirikitani survived the trauma of WWII internment camps, Hiroshima, and homelessness by creating art. But when 9/11 threatens his life on the New York City streets and a local filmmaker brings him to her home, the two embark on a journey to confront Jimmy's painful past. An intimate exploration of the lingering wounds of war and the healing powers of friendship and art, this documentary won the Audience Award at its premiere in the 2006 Tribeca Film Festival. | ||
11 / 24
Start: 17:00
End: 17:15
This documentary shows the routine practices of factory farms and slaughterhouses and explores the conditions endured by animals who are raised for meat, eggs, and milk. All the footage was obtained through investigations at U.S. factory farms and slaughterhouses in recent years. | ||
11 / 25
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11 / 26
Start: 18:15
End: 21:00
De par le monde, des millions de personnes sont réduites chaque année au déplacement forcé. Que ce soit aux Maldives, au Brésil ou même plus près de nous, ici, au Canada, les récits troublants de ces êtres humains déracinés se recoupent. Les pressions considérables exercées sur les populations rurales dues à la détérioration de leur milieu vital les éloignent de plus en plus de leur mode de vie. Start: 19:00
End: 21:00
OilCrash, produced and directed by award-winning European journalists and filmmakers Basil Gelpke and Ray McCormack, tells the story of how our civilization’s addiction to oil puts it on a collision course with geology. Compelling, intelligent, and highly entertaining, the film visits with the world’s top experts and comes to a startling, but logical conclusion – our industrial society, built on cheap and readily available oil, must be completely re-imagined and overhauled. Start: 19:30
Multinational coffee companies now rule our shopping malls and supermarkets and dominate the industry worth over $80 billion, making coffee the most valuable trading commodity in the world after oil. But while we continue to pay for our lattes and cappuccinos, the price paid to coffee farmers remains so low that many have been forced to abandon their coffee fields. Start: 19:30
Narcy, Canada’s infamous Iraqi MC, is hijacking the media to dispel stereotypes Hala Alsalman is an Iraqi-Canadian freelance reporter and video journalist. After two years of working for Reuters TV out of the Middle East, she’s currently focusing on documentary filmmaking. She’s also a magazine feature contributor for Vice and Dazed and Confused. | ||
11 / 27
Start: 16:30
Filmmaker Faisal Lutchmedial goes beyond the activist stereotype as he takes a personal journey into his mother’s native country for the first time. A three month visit to Bangladesh becomes a discovery of family and home that runs parallel with his attempt to tackle the complex issue of global trade. | ||
11 / 28
Start: 19:00
End: 20:30
It is the story of a man and a city fighting drugs and addiction. Dean Wilson used to be an IBM salesman. Now he is possible the most outspoken drug addict in Canada. Ann Livingston is the charismatic organizer of Vancouver Area Network of Drug Users. She is a nonuser, driven by an impatient spirituality. In 27 cities around the world, safe injection sites have proven to save lives. Together, Ann and Dean lead an unpredictable crew of street addicts in their fight to open North America's first safe injection for drug users in Vancouver. Start: 19:00
End: 21:00
THE FOREST FOR THE TREES is an intimate look at an unlikely team of young activists and old civil rights workers who come together to battle the U.S. government. Filmmaker Bernadine Mellis is the daughter of 68-year-old civil rights lawyer Dennis Cunningham. Dennis started out his career representing the Black Panthers and the Weathermen. | ||
11 / 29
Start: 16:00
End: 17:00
Dommages de guerre en temps de paix. Depuis 1990, les Forces canadiennes ne cessent de se déployer en divers endroits de la planète : Golfe Persique, Rwanda, Bosnie, Afghanistan, Cambodge, Haïti, Liban... | ||
11 / 30
Start: 19:00
End: 21:00
PEACE, PROPAGANDA AND THE PROMISED LAND provides a striking comparison of U.S. and international media coverage of the crisis in the Middle East, zeroing in on how structural distortions in U.S. coverage have reinforced false perceptions of the Israeli-Palestinian conflict. This pivotal documentary exposes how the foreign policy interests of American political elites--oil, and a need to have a secure military base in the region, among others--work in combination with Israeli public relations strategies to exercise a powerful influence over how news from the region is reported. Start: 19:00
End: 23:00
Website: www.handsoffvenezuela.org Directed by Melanie MacDonald and Will Roche | ||
12 / 1
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12 / 2
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12 / 3
Start: 19:30
Something's happening on the edge of town. There's a desperate housewife in the parking lot, a musical chorus line mowing the lawn - and a loaded gun in the upstairs closet. Welcome to Radiant City, an entertaining and startling new film on 21st century suburbanites. Gary Burns, Canada's king of surreal comedy, joins journalist Jim Brown on an outing to the burbs. Venturing into territory both familiar and foreign, they turn the documentary genre inside out, crafting a vivid account of life in The Late Suburban Age. | ||
12 / 4
Start: 19:00
End: 22:00
With humor, hope and a piece of vinyl siding firmly in hand, Peabody Award-winning filmmaker Judith Helfand and co-director Daniel B. Gold travel from Helfand’s hometown to America’s vinyl manufacturing capital and beyond in search of answers about the nature of polyvinyl chloride (PVC). Her parents’ decision to “re-side” their house with this seemingly benign cure-all for many suburban homes turns into a toxic odyssey with twists and turns that most ordinary homeowners would never dare to take. | ||
12 / 5
Start: 05:00
End: 08:00
Can a story change the world? In the spring of 2003, three young Americans from California left in search of such a story. What they found was a tragedy that disgusted and inspired them. This film is fast paced, and made for the young and the young at heart. To see Africa through young eyes is funny, heartbreaking, quick and informative all in the same breath. See this film and you will be forever changed. Start: 19:00
More than 30,000 people have been killed over the last ten years in Colombia’s bloody civil conflict, in which left-wing guerillas fight against the government and illegal right-wing paramilitary groups. Recently, as guerillas and paramilitaries sought to control marginal city neighborhoods, urban gangs aligned themselves with each side. In this way, the national conflict was translated into a brutal turf war that pitted adjacent barrios against each other. | ||
12 / 6
Start: 16:00
End: 17:00
De par le monde, des millions de personnes sont réduites chaque année au déplacement forcé. Que ce soit aux Maldives, au Brésil ou même plus près de nous, ici, au Canada, les récits troublants de ces êtres humains déracinés se recoupent. Les pressions considérables exercées sur les populations rurales dues à la détérioration de leur milieu vital les éloignent de plus en plus de leur mode de vie. | ||
12 / 7
Start: 19:00
End: 21:00
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. This is an epic journey into the dark heart of Native women's experience in Canada. | ||
12 / 8
Start: 19:00
End: 20:30
A young girl guides her father through his numbing depression. Zoe Leigh Hopkins’ short film Prayer for a Good Day premiered at the 2004 Sundance Film Festival. Her previous film, One-eyed Dogs are Free, was nominated for Best Short at the American Indian Film Festival and received Honorable Mention at the imagineNATIVE Film Festival in 2006. Ms. Hopkins is currently writing a play for the Children’s Theater in Minneapolis. She is now in development with her first feature Cherry Blossoms, which she workshopped at the Sundance Institute’s Feature Film Program. Start: 19:00
End: 20:30
An experimental film with rich visual/soundscapes and very little narrative. “a spiritual land claim” tells the story of many dispossessed Indigenous people affected by the external forces of colonization (i.e. inter-generational residential school trauma, lateral violence, white foster homes and addictions). | ||
12 / 9
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12 / 10
Start: 19:00
End: 21:00
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. | ||
12 / 11
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12 / 12
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12 / 13
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12 / 14
Start: 19:00
End: 21:00
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. | ||
12 / 15
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12 / 16
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12 / 18
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12 / 19
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12 / 20
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12 / 21
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12 / 22
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12 / 24
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12 / 25
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12 / 26
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12 / 28
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12 / 30
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12 / 31
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01 / 3
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01 / 4
Start: 19:00
End: 21:00
It was the summer of 2000 and the country watched with disbelief as federal fishery officers appeared to wage war on the Mi'gmaq fishermen of Esgenoopetitj, or Burnt Church, New Brunswick. Why would officials of the Canadian government attack citizens for exercising rights that had been affirmed by the highest court in the land? What happened at Burnt Church? | ||
01 / 5
Start: 14:00
End: 15:45
(Presented by Cinema Politica London in collaboration with Post Carbon London) Crude Impact is an award-winning documentary film which Chris Vernon of TheOilDrum.com called " a terrific film... the best documentary I have seen on the subject." This feature film explores the interconnection between human domination of the planet, and the discovery and use of oil. | ||
01 / 6
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01 / 7
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01 / 8
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01 / 9
Start: 19:00
End: 21:00
This is a 35-minute documentary profiling the perspectives of eight Amerindians from Guyana, South America, about issues surrounding mining – in particular, community consultation and the activities of Canadian mining companies operating in the country's interior, where many land claims remain unresolved. | ||
01 / 10
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01 / 11
Start: 19:00
End: 21:00
In an era when unions wield as much power as management, it is difficult to imagine a time when they did not even exist. To rely on an employer's goodwill for decent working conditions and a fair rate of pay without any avenue of recourse is a proposition as alien to the modern worker as the idea of commuting to work on a space shuttle. Yet for post World War I Canadians, a living wage, an eight hour work day, and the freedom to organize into bargaining groups were rights that had to be fought for. On Strike examines this struggle, chronicling Start: 19:30
End: 23:00
Does Garuda Airlines, Indonesia’s National carrier, carry out political assassinations for the government? Following the bizarre poisoning of the country’s leading human rights activist, Munir Said Thalib, on one of its flights, it’s appearing more and more likely. Since then, his colleagues have uncovered a series of shady connections between Indonesian intelligence and the National airline. They’re also investigating the deaths of other government critics, who all died mysteriously after flying Garuda. | ||
01 / 12
Start: 14:00
End: 16:00
(Presented by Cinema Politica London in collaboration with Post Carbon London) | ||
01 / 13
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01 / 14
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01 / 15
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01 / 16
Start: 19:00
End: 20:30
There is a revolution happening in the farm fields and on the dinner tables of America -- a revolution that is transforming the very nature of the food we eat. Start: 19:00
End: 21:00
Did you know that the Canadian post office is currently being sued by an American corporation under the rules of NAFTA? Free trade or subtle sellout? The feature documentary Hoodwinked: The Myth of Free Trade examines some of the less-talked-about effects of free trade and corporate globalization on Canada. It was produced by West/Dunn Productions of Ottawa. Start: 21:00
End: 23:15
EARTHLINGS is a feature length documentary about humanity's absolute dependence on animals (for pets, food, clothing, entertainment, and ... all » scientific research) but also illustrates our complete disrespect for these so-called "non-human providers." The film is narrated by Academy Award nominee Joaquin Phoenix (GLADIATOR) and features music by the critically acclaimed platinum artist Moby. | ||
01 / 17
Start: 19:00
End: 20:30
Like no other film before, China Blue is a powerful and poignant journey into the harsh world of sweatshop workers. Shot clandestinely, this is a deep-access account of what both China and the international retailers don't want us to see: how the clothes we buy are actually made. | ||
01 / 18
Start: 19:00
End: 21:00
Adventurous pioneers transform Peru's harsh northern desert into a fertile valley of mango and lime orchards. But all they've worked for is threatened when gold is discovered under their land. Fear, violence and murder rock their once quiet community. In the midst of chaos, a martyr's vision unites the farmers and leads them down a revolutionary path of non-violent resistance. These brave men and women take on corrupt politicians and the global mining industry in an epic tale of ordinary people rising to heroic deeds in times of great crisis. Start: 19:30
End: 23:00
Poletown, an inner-city Detroit neighborhood was destroyed in 1981 when the city used its power of eminent domain to turn the land over to General Motors for construction of a Cadillac plant. Finally, Some Vindication Poletown Revisited GEORGE CORSETTI,September 2004. | ||
01 / 19
Start: 13:30
End: 15:00
(Presented by Cinema Politica London in collaboration with Post Carbon London) Suburbia, and all it promises, has become the American Dream. With brutal honesty and a touch of irony, The END of SUBURBIA explored the American Way of Life and its prospects as the planet enters the age of Peak Oil. | ||
01 / 20
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01 / 21
Start: 18:15
End: 20:30
Ce documentaire, produit par Palestinian Agricultural Relief Comitees (PARC), traite des problèmes des colonies de peuplement israéliennes ainsi que du mur qu'Israël construit en Cisjordanie et leurs effets dévastateurs pour les perspectives de paix en Palestine. Les guerres et les occupations israéliennes ne cessent d'aggraver la situation des populations palestiniennes et, récemment aussi, libanaises. Quelles sont les conséquences pour la lutte du peuple palestinien pour ses droits? Et pour les mouvements de solidarité de la société civile internationale? *** Start: 19:30
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. | ||
01 / 22
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01 / 23
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01 / 24
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01 / 25
Start: 19:00
End: 19:30
A personal examination of Sophie Harkat's three year struggle to save her husband Mohamed. Produced by Hugh Gibson and Anice Wong and directed by Anice Wong this film remains an excellent teaching tool and a great introduction for people who haven't heard about security certificates and want to learn more. * National Day of Action Against Security Certificate Legislation. Start: 19:00
End: 23:00
After spending nearly 11 years in prison for breaking into an animal experimentation laboratory to expose animal cruelty, a young man is finally released and risks it all again to save more animals. Start: 19:30
End: 20:30
The story of how the Sandinistas, supported by much of the populace, took power of Nicaragua in July 1979. The Sandinistas inherited a country in ruins with a debt of U.S.$1.6 billion dollars, an estimated 50,000 war dead, 600,000 homeless, and a devastated economic infrastructure. Co-host: Film Director Kevin Matthews. | ||
01 / 26
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01 / 27
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01 / 28
Start: 19:00
End: 21:30
Arts et résistance font bon ménage depuis des siècles. Les arts écrits, vivants, sur toile ou sur pellicule et aujourd'hui sur trame virtuelle, sont très souvent associés à des luttes sociales. L'art permet la mise en idée, la construction imaginaire et appelle à la propagation et à la résistance aux diktats établis. Films projetés: Dossier Musiques Rebelles Description Start: 19:30
End: 22:00
Made in L.A. follows the remarkable story of three Latina immigrants working in Los Angeles garment sweatshops as they embark on a three-year odyssey to win basic labor protections from trendy clothing retailer Forever 21. In intimate observational style, Made in L.A. reveals the impact of the struggle on each woman’s life as they are gradually transformed by the experience. Compelling, humorous, deeply human, Made in L.A. is a story about immigration, the power of unity, and the courage it takes to find your voice. Start: 19:30
Aqui will be followed by a screening of Made in LA. Experimental short exploring the lives of those on the political, social and visual borderline. | ||
01 / 29
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01 / 30
Start: 19:00
End: 21:00
In the late 20th Century the distinction between soldier and mercenary became blurred. The recent use of private military companies (PMCs) in Iraq has been more extensive than at any time in modern history. The brutal killing of four PMC employees in Fallujah in April 2004 made it clear that these “contractors” are not merely workers in a foreign land. But are the lives of such men the only thing at risk when we privatize warfare? Start: 19:30
End: 21:00
This inspiring film examines the industrial cooperatives that arose in Mondragon in the Basque region of Spain in the second half of the 20th century. Shows how Mondragon in twenty years was transformed from a small village to one of the most important industrial centers in Spain with cooperative firms unique in history. The roots of the "Mondragon experiment" start with Father Jose Maria who in the post Spanish Civil War era studied Catholic social doctrine which rejected both capitalism and Marxism. | ||
01 / 31
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02 / 1
Start: 19:30
End: 23:00
In 1923 Vladimir Jabotinsky, leading intellectual of the Zionist movement and father of the right wing of that movement, wrote: "Zionist colonization must either stop, or else proceed regardless of the native population. Which means that it can proceed and develop only under the protection of a power that is independent of the native population - behind an IRON WALL, which the native population cannot breach." | ||
02 / 2
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02 / 3
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02 / 4
Start: 19:30
End: 22:00
The Water Front follows a screening of Gimme Green and will include a post-screening discussion with director and Concordia professor Liz Miller. What if you lived by the largest body of fresh water in the world but could no longer afford to use it? Start: 19:31
Gimme Green precedes a screening of The Water Front, which will be followed by a discussion with director and Concordia professor Liz Miller. SYNOPSIS: | ||
02 / 5
Start: 19:30
End: 21:30
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. | ||
02 / 6
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02 / 7
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02 / 8
Start: 19:00
End: 21:00
It's a story of their dedication to independence and triumph over adversity, and a story of cooperation and hope. Several Cubans expressed the belief that living on an island, with its natural boundaries, breeds awareness that there are limits to natural resources. Everyone who has worked on the documentary hopes that, seeing this film, people will also see the world on which we live, as another, much larger, island. | ||
02 / 9
Start: 14:00
End: 16:00
Every part of the struggle against Apartheid had its own style of songs to describe and interpret events and the emotions they engendered. Be transported into the eye of the hurricane with music from the revolution. | ||
02 / 10
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02 / 11
Start: 19:30
This screening is co-presented by UMOJA Concordia, who will be speaking at the screening. | ||
02 / 12
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02 / 13
Start: 19:00
End: 21:00
Some time in the 1960s, in the heart of Africa, a new animal was introduced into Lake Victoria as a little scientific experiment. The Nile Perch, a voracious predator, extinguished almost the entire stock of the native fish species. However, this new gigantic fish multiplied incredibly fast, and its white fillets are today exported all around the world. Huge hulking ex-Soviet cargo planes come daily to collect the latest catch in exchange for their southbound cargo: Kalashnikovs and ammunitions for the uncounted wars in the dark center of the African continent. Start: 19:00
End: 22:00
Everyone has heard both the positives and negatives of genetically modified crops, from biotech companies like Monsanto and from environmental and consumer groups like Greenpeace, yet no one has actually heard from those who actually grow the food we eat - the farmers. "Around the world, Canada or Ethiopia, it's the same: farmers have been kept out of the loop in terms of the development of new technologies." -Author and researcher Pat Roy Mooney, quoted in the film | ||
02 / 14
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02 / 15
Start: 19:00
End: 21:00
Her opponents call her “The Green Killer”. They gave her “The Bullshit Award” for sustaining poverty. TIME says she is a hero of our times, an icon for youngsters all over the world. The film is about Vandana Shiva, Indian environmental activist and nuclear physicist, who was awarded the Right Livelihood Award in 1993. It’s a film on globalisation and patenting, on genetic engineering, bio-piracy, indigenous knowledge. Start: 19:30
End: 23:00
In the summer of 2006, a broad-based, non-violent, popular uprising exploded in the southern Mexican state of Oaxaca. Some compared it to the Paris Commune, while others called it the first Latin American revolution of the 21st century. But it was the people’s use of the media that truly made history in Oaxaca. | ||
02 / 16
Start: 14:00
End: 15:00
One of the first, and certainly the most influential, films about apartheid. A documentary shot by a British team who wanted to remain anonymous for fear of reprisals (not just against them, but the people who helped them). Most of the white South Africans they encountered were persuaded that they were simply making home movies. Consequently, and illegally, they went where camera teams had never penetrated: into the heart of the Bantustan (the tiny waste area designated for black development), the various ghettos, even into the vast houses of the white farmers. | ||
02 / 17
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02 / 18
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02 / 19
Start: 16:45
End: 18:25
The first film of its kind to chronicle the reasons behind Iraq's descent into guerilla war, warlord rule, criminality and anarchy, NO END IN SIGHT is a jaw-dropping, insider's tale of wholesale incompetence, recklessness and venality. Start: 19:30
End: 21:00
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. | ||
02 / 20
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02 / 21
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02 / 22
Start: 19:00
End: 21:00
China Blue takes us inside a blue-jeans factory, where Jasmine and her friends are trying to survive a harsh working environment. But when the factory owner agrees to a deal with his Western client that forces his teenage workers to work around the clock, a confrontation becomes inevitable. Shot clandestinely in China, under difficult conditions, this is a deep-access account of what both China and the international retail companies don't want us to see a how the clothes we buy are actually made. Start: 19:30
End: 21:30
Adventurous pioneers transform Peru's harsh northern desert into a fertile valley of mango and lime orchards. But all they've worked for is threatened when gold is discovered under their land. Fear, violence and murder rock their once quiet community. In the midst of chaos, a martyr's vision unites the farmers and leads them down a revolutionary path of non-violent resistance. These brave men and women take on corrupt politicians and the global mining industry in an epic tale of ordinary people rising to heroic deeds in times of great crisis.Directed by Ernesto Cabellas and Stephanie Boyd. | ||
02 / 23
Start: 13:30
End: 14:45
A feature documentary about how the family household has become one of the most ferocious environmental predators of our time. | ||
02 / 24
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02 / 25
Start: 19:30
End: 22:00
This Quebec premiere is co-sponsored by Haiti-Action Montreal and co-presented by the Haitian Students Association of Concordia. Special guest speakers will be in attendance. | ||
02 / 26
Start: 16:30
End: 18:00
SYNOPSIS: Gimme Green is a humorous look at the American obsession with the residential lawn and the effects it has on our environment, our wallets and our outlook on life. From the limitless subdivisions of Florida to sod farms in the arid southwest, Gimme Green peers behind the curtain of the $40-billion industry that fuels our nation's largest irrigated crop—the lawn. | ||
02 / 27
Start: 19:00
End: 22:00
Crime, drugs, HIV/AIDS, poor education, inferiority complex, low expectation, poverty, corruption, poor health, and underdevelopment plagues people of African decent globally – Why? 500 years later from the onset of Slavery and subsequent Colonialism, Africans are still struggling for basic freedom–Why? Start: 19:00
End: 22:00
From the front-lines of conflicts in Mexico, Argentina, South Africa, Palestine, Korea, 'the North' from Seattle to Genova, and the 'War on Terror' in New York, Afghanistan, and Iraq. It is the story of men and women around the world who resist being annihilated in this war | ||
02 / 28
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02 / 29
Start: 19:00
End: 21:00
An up-to-the minute documentary about AIDS treatment activism. It examines the national and international grass roots response to an epidemic that has already overshadowed the Black Death in terms of human lives lost. The demand for access to affordable treatment for 40 million people living with HIV, most of whom live in poor countries, represents one of the most successful political movements of Start: 19:30
End: 23:00
A timely examination of human values and the health issues that affect us all, ¡Salud!looks at the curious case of Cuba, a cash-strapped country with what the BBC calls ‘one of the world’s best health systems. Start: 19:30
End: 23:30
War made Easy reaches into the Orwellian memory hole to expose a 50-year pattern of government deception and media spin that has dragged the United States into one war after another from Vietnam to Iraq. It is narrated by actor and activist Sean Penn. | ||
03 / 1
Start: 13:30
End: 16:00
In Collaboration with London Indymedia. The response to the first edition of Digital Diversity and Métissé serré, the French portion of the competition, was outstanding. Since Day 1 of the online competition, launched on September 17, 2007, short film and podcast finalists were viewed and heard more than 60,000 times, and more than 6,000 comments were made at the website. | ||
03 / 2
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03 / 3
Start: 19:30
End: 20:30
The Art of Resistance is co-sponsored by Art Matters and will be followed by a screening of Acting Blind.. Argentina’s troubled history, culminating in the major crisis of 2001, has seen the rise of a wave of original artistic and cultural expression. The documentary The Art of Resistance introduces us to several creators and artist collectives who use artistic expression as a means to deliver powerful social statements, explore unbridled creativity, and participate actively in constructing a new reality. Start: 20:30
Acting Blind will be preceded by a screening of The Art of Resistance. | ||
03 / 4
Start: 16:45
End: 18:00
It's a story of their dedication to independence and triumph over adversity, and a story of cooperation and hope. Several Cubans expressed the belief that living on an island, with its natural boundaries, breeds awareness that there are limits to natural resources. Everyone who has worked on the documentary hopes that, seeing this film, people will also see the world on which we live, as another, much larger, island. | ||
03 / 5
Start: 19:00
End: 20:55
O repovestire sincera a evenimentelor care au urmat caderii Bagdadului in 2003, relatata de inalte oficialitati: Richard Armitage, fost asistent al Secretarului de Stat; ambasadorul Barbara Bodine, insarcinata cu administrarea orasului in primavara anului 2003; Lawrence Wilkerson, fost sef de cabinet al lui Colin Powell; generalul Jay Garner, insarcinat cu ocuparea Bagdadului in luna mai a acelui an; ca si civili irakieni, soldati americani si analisti proeminenti. | ||
03 / 6
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03 / 7
Start: 19:00
End: 21:00
Multinational coffee companies now rule our shopping malls and supermarkets and dominate the industry worth over $80 billion, making coffee the most valuable trading commodity in the world after oil. But while we continue to pay for our lattes and cappuccinos, the price paid to coffee farmers remains so low that many have been forced to abandon their coffee fields. Nowhere is this paradox more evident than in Ethiopia, the birthplace of coffee. Tadesse Meskela is one man on a mission to save his 74,000 struggling coffee farmers from bankruptcy. Start: 19:30
End: 23:00
On December 2, 1984, the Union Carbide pesticide plant in Bhopal, India leaked poisonous methyl isocyanate gas killing fifteen thousand helpless men, women and children. Hundreds of thousands more were permanently maimed. Bhopal was, and remains, the world’s worst chemical industry disaster. | ||
03 / 8
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03 / 9
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03 / 10
Start: 18:15
End: 21:00
Nos enfants sont-ils poussés à devenir de petits adultes avant l'heure? Start: 19:30
Start: 03/10/2008 - 7:30pm
End: 03/19/2008 - 10:00pm
Sari's Mother will be followed by a screening of 33 Days. Filmed in Iraq over a period of one year, SARI’S MOTHER is a short documentary that follows the struggle of an The Zegum family lives in the restive Mahmudiyah area of central Iraq. They make their living by selling milk and Start: 20:00
End: 22:00
33 Days is co-sponsored by Tadamon! and will be preceded by a screening of Sari's Mother. Filmed during the massive Israeli attack on Lebanon in 2006, 33 Days chronicles the lives of four young people working in theatre, media and emergency relief. Through their creativity and commitment, the film tells untold stories that forever marked the lives of those who survived that fateful summer in Beirut. | ||
03 / 11
(all day)
Start: 03/10/2008 - 7:30pm
End: 03/19/2008 - 10:00pm
Sari's Mother will be followed by a screening of 33 Days. Filmed in Iraq over a period of one year, SARI’S MOTHER is a short documentary that follows the struggle of an The Zegum family lives in the restive Mahmudiyah area of central Iraq. They make their living by selling milk and | ||
03 / 12
(all day)
Start: 03/10/2008 - 7:30pm
End: 03/19/2008 - 10:00pm
Sari's Mother will be followed by a screening of 33 Days. Filmed in Iraq over a period of one year, SARI’S MOTHER is a short documentary that follows the struggle of an The Zegum family lives in the restive Mahmudiyah area of central Iraq. They make their living by selling milk and Start: 19:00
End: 22:00
They will fight for their country, they will die for their country, but not in the West Bank and Gaza Strip. And although they act on conscience, they pay a steep personal price. Featuring haunting accounts from the front lines, Raised to Be Heroes introduces the latest generation of Israeli soldiers to selectively object to military operations undertaken by their country. Start: 19:00
End: 20:10
Documentarul urmareste indeaproape persoana Julia Query, lesbiana / interpreta de stand-up comedy / peepshow-stripper si fiica a unei activiste feministe, in demersurile ei dificile de a ajuta la infiintare singurei uniuni a dansatoarelor de striptease din SUA, o organizatie de tip sindicat care sa le apere drepturile. Filmul reuneste imagini din spatele scenei, dansuri erotice, munca de organizare a sindicatului, proteste de strada, stand-up-comedy si animatie intr-un spectacol plin de substanta, inteligent si revolutionar. Start: 19:00
End: 22:30
Every part of the struggle against Apartheid had its own style of songs to describe and interpret events and the emotions they engendered. Through a chronological history of the South African liberation struggle, this documentary cites examples of the way that music was used in the fight for freedom. Songs united those who were being oppressed and gave those fighting a way to express their plight. The music consoled those incarcerated, and created an effective underground form of communication inside the prisons. Start: 19:30
End: 21:00
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. | ||
03 / 13
(all day)
Start: 03/10/2008 - 7:30pm
End: 03/19/2008 - 10:00pm
Sari's Mother will be followed by a screening of 33 Days. Filmed in Iraq over a period of one year, SARI’S MOTHER is a short documentary that follows the struggle of an The Zegum family lives in the restive Mahmudiyah area of central Iraq. They make their living by selling milk and | ||
03 / 14
(all day)
Start: 03/10/2008 - 7:30pm
End: 03/19/2008 - 10:00pm
Sari's Mother will be followed by a screening of 33 Days. Filmed in Iraq over a period of one year, SARI’S MOTHER is a short documentary that follows the struggle of an The Zegum family lives in the restive Mahmudiyah area of central Iraq. They make their living by selling milk and Start: 19:00
End: 21:00
Jean Kilbourne's pioneering work helped develop and popularize the study of gender representation in advertising. Her award-winning Killing us Softly films have influenced millions of college and high school students across two generations and on an international scale. In this important new film, Kilbourne reviews if and how the image of women in advertising has changed over the last 20 years. With wit and warmth, Kilbourne uses over 160 ads and TV commercials to critique advertising's image of women. Start: 19:30
End: 23:00
A riveting Academy Award-winning critique of the government's history of militarization, made all the more timely by the current war on terrorism. Start: 19:30
End: 23:30
What if you lived by the largest body of fresh water in the world but could no longer afford to use it? The story touches on the very essense of American democratic system and is an unnerving indication of what is in store for residents around the world facing their own water struggles. Start: 19:30
End: 21:30
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. Start: 21:00
End: 23:30
Lawns are undeniably an American symbol. What do they really symbolize? Pride and prosperity or waste and conformity?? | ||
03 / 15
(all day)
Start: 03/10/2008 - 7:30pm
End: 03/19/2008 - 10:00pm
Sari's Mother will be followed by a screening of 33 Days. Filmed in Iraq over a period of one year, SARI’S MOTHER is a short documentary that follows the struggle of an The Zegum family lives in the restive Mahmudiyah area of central Iraq. They make their living by selling milk and Start: 19:00
End: 21:00
Zeitgeist, produced by Peter Joseph, was created as a nonprofit filmiac expression to inspire people to start looking at the world from a more critical perspective and to understand that very often things are not what the population at large think they are. The information in Zeitgeist | ||
03 / 16
(all day)
Start: 03/10/2008 - 7:30pm
End: 03/19/2008 - 10:00pm
Sari's Mother will be followed by a screening of 33 Days. Filmed in Iraq over a period of one year, SARI’S MOTHER is a short documentary that follows the struggle of an The Zegum family lives in the restive Mahmudiyah area of central Iraq. They make their living by selling milk and Start: 00:29
Montana Exploradora, subsidiary of the Canadian/US transnational company Glamis Gold, received 45 million US dollars in financing from the World Bank to exploit an open-pit gold mine in Sipakapa, Guatemala. In accordance with ILO Convention 169, a Community Consultation was held in this Maya region to establish whether the population would accept or reject mining exploitation in its territory. The result was a resounding "NO" to mining. | ||
03 / 17
(all day)
Start: 03/10/2008 - 7:30pm
End: 03/19/2008 - 10:00pm
Sari's Mother will be followed by a screening of 33 Days. Filmed in Iraq over a period of one year, SARI’S MOTHER is a short documentary that follows the struggle of an The Zegum family lives in the restive Mahmudiyah area of central Iraq. They make their living by selling milk and Start: 19:30
End: 20:00
Before Nine will be followed by a screening of My Daughter the Terrorist. Before Nine is a short fiction that explores issues of identity among Canadians who are subject to racism, alienation and gentrification. It is also a story about friendship and the ways in which sexual and ethnic differences can serve to bind people together in hostile environments - such can be the Canadian urban landscape. Start: 20:00
End: 22:00
My Daughter the Terrorist will be preceded by a screening of the short fiction, Before Nine. What makes anyone want to blow themselves up for a cause? In this intimate and personal portrait we join two young female elite soldiers trained for the ultimate mission. We share their childhood experiences, their dreams and their families’ loss. Left behind are the mothers. | ||
03 / 18
(all day)
Start: 03/10/2008 - 7:30pm
End: 03/19/2008 - 10:00pm
Sari's Mother will be followed by a screening of 33 Days. Filmed in Iraq over a period of one year, SARI’S MOTHER is a short documentary that follows the struggle of an The Zegum family lives in the restive Mahmudiyah area of central Iraq. They make their living by selling milk and Start: 16:35
End: 18:00
To some he is a champion of the poor and the powerless; to others he is a ruthless dictator. He is often dismissed as a relic, yet many revere him as a saviour. He is Cuban President, Fidel Castro. FIDEL covers forty years of the Cuban Revolution and provides a unique opportunity to consider the life of one of the most influential and controversial figures of our time. Start: 19:30
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. | ||
03 / 19
End: 22:00
Start: 03/10/2008 - 7:30pm
End: 03/19/2008 - 10:00pm
Sari's Mother will be followed by a screening of 33 Days. Filmed in Iraq over a period of one year, SARI’S MOTHER is a short documentary that follows the struggle of an The Zegum family lives in the restive Mahmudiyah area of central Iraq. They make their living by selling milk and Start: 18:30
End: 21:30
Cette soirée rend hommage à la nature et à un grand artiste engagé qui s'en inspire et qui, par son oeuvre, vise à la défendre. Les projections débuteront par La Colère des bois de David Bernier, un jeune réalisateur qui fait des films sous l'inspiration de Frédéric Back. Suivra ensuite CRAC! et L'homme qui plantait des arbres de Frédéric Back. Une discussion, avec les deux réalisateurs qui nous feront l'honneur d'être parmi nous pour cette soirée d'envergure, viendra après les projections. *GRATUIT ET OUVERT À TOUS!* La Colère des bois: Start: 19:00
Filmul, produs si regizat de premiatii jurnalisti si realizatori europeni de film Basil Gelpke si Ray McCormack, vorbeste despre civilizatia umana care, dependenta de petrol, a intrat pe o traiectorie periculoasa. Puternic, inteligent si atractiv, documentarul intervieveaza experti in domeniu pentru a ajunge la concluzia alarmanta, dar fireasca si inevitabila, ca societatea noastra industriala, construita pe baza petrolului ieftin si rapid de expoatat, trebuie regandita din temelii. Start: 19:00
End: 22:30
Since World War II North Americans have invested much of their newfound wealth in suburbia. It has promised a sense of space, affordability, family life and upward mobility. As the population of suburban sprawl has exploded in the past 50 years, so too has the suburban way of life become embedded in the American consciousness. Suburbia, and all it promises, has become the American Dream. But as we enter the 21st century, serious questions are beginning to emerge about the sustainability of this way of life. | ||
03 / 20
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03 / 21
Start: 19:00
End: 21:00
The first film of its kind to chronicle the reasons behind Iraq's descent into guerilla war, warlord rule, criminality and anarchy, NO END IN SIGHT is a jaw-dropping, insider's tale of wholesale incompetence, recklessness and venality. Start: 19:30
End: 23:00
Shot in Nicaragua in late 2002 and early 2003, Fifteen years later, filmmakers Peter Raymont and Harold Crooks return to Nicaragua with two American journalists who were in the original film - and | ||
03 / 22
Start: 13:30
End: 14:00
Is water part of a shared "commons," a human right for all people? Or is it a commodity to be bought, sold, and traded in a global marketplace? "Thirst" tells the stories of communities in Bolivia, India, and the United States that are asking these fundamental questions. Over a billion people lack access to safe drinking water. Each year, millions of children die of diseases caused by unsafe water. The numbers are increasing. | ||
03 / 23
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03 / 24
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03 / 25
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03 / 26
Start: 19:00
End: 22:00
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. Start: 19:00
Azi muncitorii manuali nu mai sunt cantati in imnuri de recunostinta. | ||
03 / 27
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03 / 28
Start: 19:00
Start: 03/28/2008 - 7:00pm
End: 04/28/2008 - 9:00pm
In various episodes the abstract phenomenon of privatisation is depicted in stories about very concrete human destinies around the globe. The documentary tells tragic, tragicomic but also encouraging stories of the everyday life of people, who day by day have to deal with the effects of privatisation politics, dictated by anonymous international financial institutions in Washington D.C. and Geneva, such as the International Monetary Fund (IMF), the World Bank and the World Trade Organisation (WTO). Start: 19:30
End: 23:00
Be Smile tells the stories of two Inuit men living an urban life in the aftermath of Canada's long history of attempts to unmake an ancient aboriginal culture. Drawing on the strong oral tradition of the Inuit people, the subjects of this documentary recount their stories of childhood hunting expeditions and a lost nomadic way of life, of sexual abuse and alcohol addiction, and of the Christian church's effects on the Inuit worldview. Their stories also reveal a wisdom and outlook that have persisted despite their devastating trials. In the face of all miseries, they resolve to "be smile." | ||
03 / 29
(all day)
Start: 03/28/2008 - 7:00pm
End: 04/28/2008 - 9:00pm
In various episodes the abstract phenomenon of privatisation is depicted in stories about very concrete human destinies around the globe. The documentary tells tragic, tragicomic but also encouraging stories of the everyday life of people, who day by day have to deal with the effects of privatisation politics, dictated by anonymous international financial institutions in Washington D.C. and Geneva, such as the International Monetary Fund (IMF), the World Bank and the World Trade Organisation (WTO). Start: 13:30
End: 15:00
McLibel is the story of two ordinary people who humiliated McDonald's in the biggest corporate PR disaster in history. McDonald's loved using the UK libel laws to suppress criticism. Major media organisations like the BBC and The Guardian crumbled and apologised. But then they sued gardener Helen Steel and postman Dave Morris. | ||
03 / 30
(all day)
Start: 03/28/2008 - 7:00pm
End: 04/28/2008 - 9:00pm
In various episodes the abstract phenomenon of privatisation is depicted in stories about very concrete human destinies around the globe. The documentary tells tragic, tragicomic but also encouraging stories of the everyday life of people, who day by day have to deal with the effects of privatisation politics, dictated by anonymous international financial institutions in Washington D.C. and Geneva, such as the International Monetary Fund (IMF), the World Bank and the World Trade Organisation (WTO). | ||
03 / 31
(all day)
Start: 03/28/2008 - 7:00pm
End: 04/28/2008 - 9:00pm
In various episodes the abstract phenomenon of privatisation is depicted in stories about very concrete human destinies around the globe. The documentary tells tragic, tragicomic but also encouraging stories of the everyday life of people, who day by day have to deal with the effects of privatisation politics, dictated by anonymous international financial institutions in Washington D.C. and Geneva, such as the International Monetary Fund (IMF), the World Bank and the World Trade Organisation (WTO). | ||
04 / 1
(all day)
Start: 03/28/2008 - 7:00pm
End: 04/28/2008 - 9:00pm
In various episodes the abstract phenomenon of privatisation is depicted in stories about very concrete human destinies around the globe. The documentary tells tragic, tragicomic but also encouraging stories of the everyday life of people, who day by day have to deal with the effects of privatisation politics, dictated by anonymous international financial institutions in Washington D.C. and Geneva, such as the International Monetary Fund (IMF), the World Bank and the World Trade Organisation (WTO). Start: 16:45
End: 18:15
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. Start: 19:30
End: 21:00
It takes a certain kind of creative genius to look at an old situation with new eyes. Be Smile tells the remarkable story of two Inuit men who live on and off the streets of Montreal, who at times sleep on the filmmaker's floor, who paint murals on apartment walls, who wrestle with addiction and the residue of trauma in a (post)colonial and largely uncaring Canadian society, and who remain enough a part of a larger Inuit community in Montreal to attend regular feasts of traditional food. | ||
04 / 2
(all day)
Start: 03/28/2008 - 7:00pm
End: 04/28/2008 - 9:00pm
In various episodes the abstract phenomenon of privatisation is depicted in stories about very concrete human destinies around the globe. The documentary tells tragic, tragicomic but also encouraging stories of the everyday life of people, who day by day have to deal with the effects of privatisation politics, dictated by anonymous international financial institutions in Washington D.C. and Geneva, such as the International Monetary Fund (IMF), the World Bank and the World Trade Organisation (WTO). Start: 19:00
Ce-i face pe oameni sa se arunce in aer pentru o cauza? Start: 19:00
End: 22:30
In 1923 Vladimir Jabotinsky, leading intellectual of the Zionist movement and father of the right wing of that movement, wrote: "Zionist colonization must either stop, or else proceed regardless of the native population. Which means that it can proceed and develop only under the protection of a power that is independent of the native population - behind an IRON WALL, which the native population cannot breach." | ||
04 / 3
(all day)
Start: 03/28/2008 - 7:00pm
End: 04/28/2008 - 9:00pm
In various episodes the abstract phenomenon of privatisation is depicted in stories about very concrete human destinies around the globe. The documentary tells tragic, tragicomic but also encouraging stories of the everyday life of people, who day by day have to deal with the effects of privatisation politics, dictated by anonymous international financial institutions in Washington D.C. and Geneva, such as the International Monetary Fund (IMF), the World Bank and the World Trade Organisation (WTO). | ||
04 / 4
(all day)
Start: 03/28/2008 - 7:00pm
End: 04/28/2008 - 9:00pm
In various episodes the abstract phenomenon of privatisation is depicted in stories about very concrete human destinies around the globe. The documentary tells tragic, tragicomic but also encouraging stories of the everyday life of people, who day by day have to deal with the effects of privatisation politics, dictated by anonymous international financial institutions in Washington D.C. and Geneva, such as the International Monetary Fund (IMF), the World Bank and the World Trade Organisation (WTO). Start: 19:00
End: 21:00
A new breed of revolutionary stands poised along our information highways waging war on logos and symbols. They're "Culture Jammers" and their mission is to artfully reclaim our mental environment and cause a bit of brand damage to corporate mindshare. Director Jill Sharpe's subversively savvy one-hour documentary film - culturejam - Hijacking Commercial Culture- bursts our last bubble of illusion about free speech in public space and gives us spanking brand-new hope at the same time. Scream at the TV, but don't touch that dial! Start: 19:30
End: 23:00
Uranium explores the consequences of uranium mining in Canada. Because of toxic and radioactive waste, there are profound, long-term environmental hazards associated with uranium mining. | ||
04 / 5
(all day)
Start: 03/28/2008 - 7:00pm
End: 04/28/2008 - 9:00pm
In various episodes the abstract phenomenon of privatisation is depicted in stories about very concrete human destinies around the globe. The documentary tells tragic, tragicomic but also encouraging stories of the everyday life of people, who day by day have to deal with the effects of privatisation politics, dictated by anonymous international financial institutions in Washington D.C. and Geneva, such as the International Monetary Fund (IMF), the World Bank and the World Trade Organisation (WTO). Start: 13:30
End: 15:00
In Collaboration with London Indymedia. It may be the greatest media technology paradigm shift since TV's advent. From Rodney King to Osama Bin Laden, handicams aren't just for weddings and family vacations anymore. Over the past decade, amateur camcorders have become the eyes of the world when no one else is watching. | ||
04 / 6
(all day)
Start: 03/28/2008 - 7:00pm
End: 04/28/2008 - 9:00pm
In various episodes the abstract phenomenon of privatisation is depicted in stories about very concrete human destinies around the globe. The documentary tells tragic, tragicomic but also encouraging stories of the everyday life of people, who day by day have to deal with the effects of privatisation politics, dictated by anonymous international financial institutions in Washington D.C. and Geneva, such as the International Monetary Fund (IMF), the World Bank and the World Trade Organisation (WTO). | ||
04 / 7
(all day)
Start: 03/28/2008 - 7:00pm
End: 04/28/2008 - 9:00pm
In various episodes the abstract phenomenon of privatisation is depicted in stories about very concrete human destinies around the globe. The documentary tells tragic, tragicomic but also encouraging stories of the everyday life of people, who day by day have to deal with the effects of privatisation politics, dictated by anonymous international financial institutions in Washington D.C. and Geneva, such as the International Monetary Fund (IMF), the World Bank and the World Trade Organisation (WTO). Start: 19:30
This short will precede the feature documentary For the Bible Tells Me So. Documentary look at a transgendered female to male person and his queer family. Start: 19:30
End: 22:00
This screening is co-presented by Concordia's Simone de Beauvoir Institute Can the love between two people ever be an abomination? Is the chasm separating gays and lesbians and Christianity too wide to cross? Is the Bible an excuse to hate? | ||
04 / 8
(all day)
Start: 03/28/2008 - 7:00pm
End: 04/28/2008 - 9:00pm
In various episodes the abstract phenomenon of privatisation is depicted in stories about very concrete human destinies around the globe. The documentary tells tragic, tragicomic but also encouraging stories of the everyday life of people, who day by day have to deal with the effects of privatisation politics, dictated by anonymous international financial institutions in Washington D.C. and Geneva, such as the International Monetary Fund (IMF), the World Bank and the World Trade Organisation (WTO). | ||
04 / 9
(all day)
Start: 03/28/2008 - 7:00pm
End: 04/28/2008 - 9:00pm
In various episodes the abstract phenomenon of privatisation is depicted in stories about very concrete human destinies around the globe. The documentary tells tragic, tragicomic but also encouraging stories of the everyday life of people, who day by day have to deal with the effects of privatisation politics, dictated by anonymous international financial institutions in Washington D.C. and Geneva, such as the International Monetary Fund (IMF), the World Bank and the World Trade Organisation (WTO). Start: 19:00
End: 22:30
This documentary film exposes our deeprooted dependency on the availability of fossil fuel energy and examines the future implications of peak oil — the point in time when the amount of petroleum worldwide begins a steady, inexorable decline. Journeying from the West African delta region to the heart of the Amazon rainforest, from Washington to Shanghai, from early man to the unknown future, CRUDE IMPACT chronicles the collision of our insatiable appetite for oil with the rights and livelihoods of indigenous cultures, other species and the planet itself. Start: 19:00
Provocator, amuzant, destept si cuprinzator, filmul The Corporation explora natura si modul in care s-au nascut si s-au dezvoltat companiile dominante ale timpurilor noastre. Documentarul analizeaza intuitiv si convingator influenta acestora in cotidian. Filmul cuprinde peste 40 de interviuri cu angajati ai corporatiilor si critici renumiti ai acestora, printre care Noam Chomsky, Naomi Klein, Milton Friedman, Howard Zinn, Vandana Shiva si Michael Moore. "Destept si incisiv… systematic si informativ… da fiori reci audientei." | ||
04 / 10
(all day)
Start: 03/28/2008 - 7:00pm
End: 04/28/2008 - 9:00pm
In various episodes the abstract phenomenon of privatisation is depicted in stories about very concrete human destinies around the globe. The documentary tells tragic, tragicomic but also encouraging stories of the everyday life of people, who day by day have to deal with the effects of privatisation politics, dictated by anonymous international financial institutions in Washington D.C. and Geneva, such as the International Monetary Fund (IMF), the World Bank and the World Trade Organisation (WTO). | ||
04 / 11
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Start: 03/28/2008 - 7:00pm
End: 04/28/2008 - 9:00pm
In various episodes the abstract phenomenon of privatisation is depicted in stories about very concrete human destinies around the globe. The documentary tells tragic, tragicomic but also encouraging stories of the everyday life of people, who day by day have to deal with the effects of privatisation politics, dictated by anonymous international financial institutions in Washington D.C. and Geneva, such as the International Monetary Fund (IMF), the World Bank and the World Trade Organisation (WTO). Start: 19:00
End: 21:00
When did feminism become a bad word? Why is it that young independent, progressive women in today's society feel uncomfortable identifying with the F-word? Join filmmaker Therese Shechter as she takes a funny, moving and very personal journey into the heart of Feminism on the threshold of the 21st century. Armed with a video camera and an irreverent sense of humor, Therese talks with Feminist superstars, rowdy frat boys, liberated Cosmo girls and Radical Cheerleaders, all in her quest to find out whether Feminism can still | ||
04 / 12
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Start: 03/28/2008 - 7:00pm
End: 04/28/2008 - 9:00pm
In various episodes the abstract phenomenon of privatisation is depicted in stories about very concrete human destinies around the globe. The documentary tells tragic, tragicomic but also encouraging stories of the everyday life of people, who day by day have to deal with the effects of privatisation politics, dictated by anonymous international financial institutions in Washington D.C. and Geneva, such as the International Monetary Fund (IMF), the World Bank and the World Trade Organisation (WTO). | ||
04 / 13
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Start: 03/28/2008 - 7:00pm
End: 04/28/2008 - 9:00pm
In various episodes the abstract phenomenon of privatisation is depicted in stories about very concrete human destinies around the globe. The documentary tells tragic, tragicomic but also encouraging stories of the everyday life of people, who day by day have to deal with the effects of privatisation politics, dictated by anonymous international financial institutions in Washington D.C. and Geneva, such as the International Monetary Fund (IMF), the World Bank and the World Trade Organisation (WTO). | ||
04 / 14
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Start: 03/28/2008 - 7:00pm
End: 04/28/2008 - 9:00pm
In various episodes the abstract phenomenon of privatisation is depicted in stories about very concrete human destinies around the globe. The documentary tells tragic, tragicomic but also encouraging stories of the everyday life of people, who day by day have to deal with the effects of privatisation politics, dictated by anonymous international financial institutions in Washington D.C. and Geneva, such as the International Monetary Fund (IMF), the World Bank and the World Trade Organisation (WTO). Start: 19:30
OK, OK, we know that this film is already infamous - but we thought we'd throw it up on the big screen for everyone during the onset of the exam period for a special bonus screening. Enjoy the debates that will surely ensue... Loose Change Final Cut is the third installment of thedocumentary that asks the tough questions about the 9/11 attacks and related events. This movie hopes to be the catalyst for a new independent investigation, in which the family members receive answers to their questions, and the TRUE PERPETRATORS of this horrendous crime are PROSECUTED and PUNISHED. | ||
04 / 15
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Start: 03/28/2008 - 7:00pm
End: 04/28/2008 - 9:00pm
In various episodes the abstract phenomenon of privatisation is depicted in stories about very concrete human destinies around the globe. The documentary tells tragic, tragicomic but also encouraging stories of the everyday life of people, who day by day have to deal with the effects of privatisation politics, dictated by anonymous international financial institutions in Washington D.C. and Geneva, such as the International Monetary Fund (IMF), the World Bank and the World Trade Organisation (WTO). Start: 19:30
End: 21:00
Winner of 16 International Awards 2002-2004, Nominated for 2002 Academy Award for Best Documentary Feature. From the NY Times: | ||
04 / 16
(all day)
Start: 03/28/2008 - 7:00pm
End: 04/28/2008 - 9:00pm
In various episodes the abstract phenomenon of privatisation is depicted in stories about very concrete human destinies around the globe. The documentary tells tragic, tragicomic but also encouraging stories of the everyday life of people, who day by day have to deal with the effects of privatisation politics, dictated by anonymous international financial institutions in Washington D.C. and Geneva, such as the International Monetary Fund (IMF), the World Bank and the World Trade Organisation (WTO). Start: 19:00
End: 21:00
Lost Boys of Sudan is a feature-length documentary that follows two Sudanese refugees on an extraordinary journey from Africa to America. Orphaned as young boys in one of Africa’s cruelest civil wars, Peter Dut and Santino Chuor survived lion attacks and militia gunfire to reach a refugee camp in Kenya along with thousands of other children. From there, remarkably, they were chosen to come to America. Safe at last from physical danger and hunger, a world away from home, they find themselves confronted with the abundance and alienation of contemporary American suburbia. Start: 19:00
"Acest film despre consumism ne-a consumat de tot... Foloseste limbajul video-clipului, al propagandei si publicitatii comerciale ca raspuns la fortele globalizarii. Raspunde cu foc la foc. Intrebarile pe care le ridica sunt mai importante decat orice raspunsuri pe care le sugereaza. Si credem ca audienta nu are decat de castigat din dezbaterile ulterioare. Pentru originalitate, sens al umorului, ironie, putere si virtuozitate vizuala, premiul Lupul de Argint este decernat peliculei Surplus." | ||
04 / 17
(all day)
Start: 03/28/2008 - 7:00pm
End: 04/28/2008 - 9:00pm
In various episodes the abstract phenomenon of privatisation is depicted in stories about very concrete human destinies around the globe. The documentary tells tragic, tragicomic but also encouraging stories of the everyday life of people, who day by day have to deal with the effects of privatisation politics, dictated by anonymous international financial institutions in Washington D.C. and Geneva, such as the International Monetary Fund (IMF), the World Bank and the World Trade Organisation (WTO). | ||
04 / 18
(all day)
Start: 03/28/2008 - 7:00pm
End: 04/28/2008 - 9:00pm
In various episodes the abstract phenomenon of privatisation is depicted in stories about very concrete human destinies around the globe. The documentary tells tragic, tragicomic but also encouraging stories of the everyday life of people, who day by day have to deal with the effects of privatisation politics, dictated by anonymous international financial institutions in Washington D.C. and Geneva, such as the International Monetary Fund (IMF), the World Bank and the World Trade Organisation (WTO). Start: 19:00
End: 21:00
Crime, drugs, HIV/AIDS, poor education, inferiority complex, low expectation, poverty, corruption, poor health, and underdevelopment plagues people of African decent globally - Why? 500 years later from the onset of Slavery and subsequent Colonialism, Africans are still struggling for basic freedom - Why? Start: 19:30
This film explores the inherent contradictions and hypocrisies of neo-liberal ideas of development by examining the effects of IMF imposed structural adjustment policies on the island paradise of Jamaica. | ||
04 / 19
(all day)
Start: 03/28/2008 - 7:00pm
End: 04/28/2008 - 9:00pm
In various episodes the abstract phenomenon of privatisation is depicted in stories about very concrete human destinies around the globe. The documentary tells tragic, tragicomic but also encouraging stories of the everyday life of people, who day by day have to deal with the effects of privatisation politics, dictated by anonymous international financial institutions in Washington D.C. and Geneva, such as the International Monetary Fund (IMF), the World Bank and the World Trade Organisation (WTO). | ||
04 / 20
(all day)
Start: 03/28/2008 - 7:00pm
End: 04/28/2008 - 9:00pm
In various episodes the abstract phenomenon of privatisation is depicted in stories about very concrete human destinies around the globe. The documentary tells tragic, tragicomic but also encouraging stories of the everyday life of people, who day by day have to deal with the effects of privatisation politics, dictated by anonymous international financial institutions in Washington D.C. and Geneva, such as the International Monetary Fund (IMF), the World Bank and the World Trade Organisation (WTO). | ||
04 / 21
(all day)
Start: 03/28/2008 - 7:00pm
End: 04/28/2008 - 9:00pm
In various episodes the abstract phenomenon of privatisation is depicted in stories about very concrete human destinies around the globe. The documentary tells tragic, tragicomic but also encouraging stories of the everyday life of people, who day by day have to deal with the effects of privatisation politics, dictated by anonymous international financial institutions in Washington D.C. and Geneva, such as the International Monetary Fund (IMF), the World Bank and the World Trade Organisation (WTO). | ||
04 / 22
(all day)
Start: 03/28/2008 - 7:00pm
End: 04/28/2008 - 9:00pm
In various episodes the abstract phenomenon of privatisation is depicted in stories about very concrete human destinies around the globe. The documentary tells tragic, tragicomic but also encouraging stories of the everyday life of people, who day by day have to deal with the effects of privatisation politics, dictated by anonymous international financial institutions in Washington D.C. and Geneva, such as the International Monetary Fund (IMF), the World Bank and the World Trade Organisation (WTO). | ||
04 / 23
(all day)
Start: 03/28/2008 - 7:00pm
End: 04/28/2008 - 9:00pm
In various episodes the abstract phenomenon of privatisation is depicted in stories about very concrete human destinies around the globe. The documentary tells tragic, tragicomic but also encouraging stories of the everyday life of people, who day by day have to deal with the effects of privatisation politics, dictated by anonymous international financial institutions in Washington D.C. and Geneva, such as the International Monetary Fund (IMF), the World Bank and the World Trade Organisation (WTO). Start: 19:00
Dupa al II-lea Razboi Mondial, America a investit majoritatea banilor in costructia suburbiilor. Se promitea un sens al spatiului, al posibilitatilor financiare, o viata de familie si un grad de mobilitate ridicat. Suburbia a devenit Visul American. Dupa intrarea in secolul 21 numeroase intrebari au inceput sa apara despre soliditatea acestui fel de viata. Cu onestitate brutala si ironie, filmul analizeaza modul de viata american si predictiile pe masura ce lumea se apropie de o era critica, atunci cand cererea de petrol va fi mai mare ca oferta. | ||
04 / 24
(all day)
Start: 03/28/2008 - 7:00pm
End: 04/28/2008 - 9:00pm
In various episodes the abstract phenomenon of privatisation is depicted in stories about very concrete human destinies around the globe. The documentary tells tragic, tragicomic but also encouraging stories of the everyday life of people, who day by day have to deal with the effects of privatisation politics, dictated by anonymous international financial institutions in Washington D.C. and Geneva, such as the International Monetary Fund (IMF), the World Bank and the World Trade Organisation (WTO). | ||
04 / 25
(all day)
Start: 03/28/2008 - 7:00pm
End: 04/28/2008 - 9:00pm
In various episodes the abstract phenomenon of privatisation is depicted in stories about very concrete human destinies around the globe. The documentary tells tragic, tragicomic but also encouraging stories of the everyday life of people, who day by day have to deal with the effects of privatisation politics, dictated by anonymous international financial institutions in Washington D.C. and Geneva, such as the International Monetary Fund (IMF), the World Bank and the World Trade Organisation (WTO). Start: 19:00
End: 21:00
Every part of the struggle against Apartheid had its own style of songs to describe and interpret events and the emotions they engendered. Be transported into the eye of the hurricane with music from the revolution. | ||
04 / 26
(all day)
Start: 03/28/2008 - 7:00pm
End: 04/28/2008 - 9:00pm
In various episodes the abstract phenomenon of privatisation is depicted in stories about very concrete human destinies around the globe. The documentary tells tragic, tragicomic but also encouraging stories of the everyday life of people, who day by day have to deal with the effects of privatisation politics, dictated by anonymous international financial institutions in Washington D.C. and Geneva, such as the International Monetary Fund (IMF), the World Bank and the World Trade Organisation (WTO). | ||
04 / 27
(all day)
Start: 03/28/2008 - 7:00pm
End: 04/28/2008 - 9:00pm
In various episodes the abstract phenomenon of privatisation is depicted in stories about very concrete human destinies around the globe. The documentary tells tragic, tragicomic but also encouraging stories of the everyday life of people, who day by day have to deal with the effects of privatisation politics, dictated by anonymous international financial institutions in Washington D.C. and Geneva, such as the International Monetary Fund (IMF), the World Bank and the World Trade Organisation (WTO). | ||
04 / 28
End: 21:00
Start: 03/28/2008 - 7:00pm
End: 04/28/2008 - 9:00pm
In various episodes the abstract phenomenon of privatisation is depicted in stories about very concrete human destinies around the globe. The documentary tells tragic, tragicomic but also encouraging stories of the everyday life of people, who day by day have to deal with the effects of privatisation politics, dictated by anonymous international financial institutions in Washington D.C. and Geneva, such as the International Monetary Fund (IMF), the World Bank and the World Trade Organisation (WTO). | ||
04 / 29
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04 / 30
Start: 19:00
Filmul traseaza o legatura intre o fabrica din China si strada Bourbon in timpul sarbatorii Mardi Gras, expunand clar inechitatile globalizarii. Regizorul David Redmon juxtapune excesului consumist american, viata grea a lucratorilor dintr-o fabrica din China. Filmul urmareste povestile a patru tinere lucratoare in cea mai mare fabrica de produse Mardi Gras din lume, facandu-ne partasi la greutatile lor financiare, sacrificiul de sine, visele de viata mai buna si disciplina severa. Documentarul expune contrastul izbitor dintre vietile si libertatile femeilor apartinand celor doua culturi. | ||
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05 / 3
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05 / 4
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05 / 5
Start: 19:00
End: 20:30
“The Price of Sugar,” Bill Haney’s muckraking documentary about Haitians lured into a form of indentured servitude on sugar plantations across the border in the Dominican Republic, focuses on the Rev. Christopher Hartley, a courageous and stubborn Spanish priest who devoted 10 years to bettering their desperate plight. The movie visits the workers’ shantytowns, known as bateyes, which, according to the film, resembled forced labor camps patrolled by armed guards before Father Hartley’s reform movement. | ||
05 / 6
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05 / 7
Start: 19:00
Istoria tumultoasa a Argentinei, culminand cu momentul de criza din 2001, a fost martora ridicarii unui nou val aristic creator plin de originalitate si forta. Documentarul ne introduce in lumea catorva creatori si colective de creatie care folosesc expresia artistica ca mijloc de comunicare a unor puternice declaratii sociale si ca participare active la construirea unei noi realitati. Filmul este o descriere penetranta a metodelor artistice si politice de rezistenta culturala din Argentina. | ||
05 / 8
Start: 19:00
End: 21:00
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. The film also details life under Israeli military rule, the role of the United States in the conflict, and the major obstacles that stand in the way of a lasting and viable peace. | ||
05 / 9
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05 / 11
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05 / 12
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05 / 13
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05 / 14
Start: 19:00
Filmul vorbeste despre o echipa de activisti tineri si niste batrani lucratori in domeniul drepturilor civile care-si unesc fortele pentru a lupta cu guvernul SUA. Regizoarea Bernadine Mellis este fiica avocatului Dennis Cunningham, activist pentru drepturile civile. Documentarul ofera o imagine asupra relatiei tata-fiica, a vietii extraordinare a lui Judi Bari, o activista sociala in proces cu FBI, si o farama de istorie a Americii. | ||
05 / 15
Start: 19:00
End: 21:00
Invisible Children: The Rough Cut is a film about the plight of child soldiers and night commuters in northern Uganda. The documentary was filmed in 2003 when three young men from Southern California, traveled to Sudan “to find a story.” | ||
05 / 16
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05 / 17
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05 / 18
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05 / 19
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05 / 20
Start: 18:00
End: 20:20
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. | ||
05 / 21
Start: 19:00
Ce-ar fi sa locuiesti langa cel mai mare rezervor de apa dulce din lume si sa nu ai voie sa-l folosesti. Apa este aurul lichid al secolului 21. In timp ce corporatiile preseaza administratiile locale pentru privatizarea surselor de apa, unele comunitatii se organizeaza pentru a-si asigura accesul ieftin la aceasta resursa vitala. Filmul este povestea unei comunitati locale hotarate sa lupte contra aparentei inevitabile privatizari a apei. | ||
05 / 22
Start: 19:00
End: 21:00
Edward Said's book Orientalism has been profoundly influential in a diverse range of disciplines since its publication in 1978. In this engaging and lavishly illustrated interview he talks about the context within which the book was conceived, its main themes, and how its original thesis relates to the contemporary understanding of "the Orient" as represented in the mass media. | ||
05 / 23
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05 / 24
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05 / 25
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05 / 26
Start: 15:00
End: 18:00
Mamad, 18 ans, né au Mali, vit en France depuis 15 ans. En sortant de sa fête d'anniversaire, il est arrêté pour défaut de papiers et se voit contraint de quitter la France. Débarqué à Bamako avec pour seul repère un numéro et une adresse, il ne connaît rien du Mali et ne sait pas ce qui l'attend. + + Start: 17:00
Este o istorie a Bucurestiului, asa cum se vede el in lumina arhitecturii de tip totalitarist, noi cei ce privim fiind constienti de faptul ca Puterea se exprima intotdeauna prin arhitectura. Ceausescu Nicolae a distrus Romania. In locul vechilor orase, a memoriei incastrate in zidurile monumentale, arhitectura de tip stalinist, de inspiratie Nord Coreeana, a erupt ca o plaga amenintand sa umileasca tot si sa demonstreze Puterea regimului. Grand Prize at the Architecture Film Festival, FIFAL Bucharest 1994; “International Housing and Planning” Award at Senday – Miyagi, Japan 1996 Start: 19:00
End: 19:10
Satul Hamburg din Africa de Sud este locul unde traiesc multi copii bolnavi de SIDA, multi dintre ei sunt orfani. Parintii lor au fost rapusi de aceeasi boala. Filmul urmareste eforturile femeilor din comunitate pentru a salva copii, concentrandu-se pe doua personaje: Eunice, care uita de sine alergand sa-i ingrijeasca pe micuti si medicul generalist Carol, care-i spitalizeaza in propria casa. Selected: IDF Amsterdam 2007; Encounters Festival Johannesburg and Cape Town 2007; Tri-Continents Festival Johannesburg 2007; RIDM Montreal 2007 Start: 21:00
Intr-un cartier popular, in inima capitalei congoleze Brazzaville, un tribunal traditional perpetueaza o organizare juridica ancestrala impreuna cu forme ale unui tribunal modern, oficial. Intr-o cladire mica, intr-un decor sumar, ca la teatru, dupa gong, diferite cazuri defileaza prin fata judecatorilor in togi negre: vrajitorii, divorturi, mosteniri, proprietati... PROIECTIE IN PREZENTA REGIZORULUI Mesmer Rufin Mbou Mikima (discutii cu publicul) | ||
05 / 27
Start: 17:00
Ceva se intampla la marginea orasului: o gospodina disperata intr-o parcare, un cor care tunde iarba si un pistol incarcat in dulapul de sus. Bine ati venit in Radiant City, un surprinzator film despre cei ce traiesc in suburbii. Genie Award - Best Documentary, 2007; Special Jury Prize - Vancouver IFF; Top 10 Films of the Year - Toronto IFF 2006 Start: 18:30
End: 20:00
A new breed of revolutionary stands poised along our information highways waging war on logos and symbols. They're "Culture Jammers" and their mission is to artfully reclaim our mental environment and cause a bit of brand damage to corporate mindshare. Director Jill Sharpe's subversively savvy one-hour documentary film - culturejam - Hijacking Commercial Culture- bursts our last bubble of illusion about free speech in public space and gives us spanking brand-new hope at the same time. Scream at the TV, but don't touch that dial! Start: 19:00
Edward Burtynsky este renumitul fotograf care realizeaza uriase fotografii ale naturii transformate de industrie. "Manufactured Landscapes" este documentarul uimitor al regizoarei Jennifer Baichwal care-l urmeaza pe Burtynsky in China, in timp ce el fotografiaza efectele industrializarii masive a tarii. Filmul conduce catre o meditatie asupra eforturilor umane si impactul pe care acestea le au asupra planetei. Start: 21:00
Filmul, o incursiune în epoca 1965-1989, îi prezintă pe copiii născuţi ca urmare a Decretului lui Ceauşescu, tineri care ascultau Pink Floyd şi Europa Liberă şi care în 1989 au fost primii pe baricade. Finalizat în 2004, filmul este rezultatul unei munci de aproape şase ani. „Născuţi la comandă. Decreţeii" prezintă „povestea unuia dintre cele mai semnificative experimente sociale din istoria omenirii", după cum spune cineastul american John Alpert, cea a Decretului nr. 770 pentru reglementarea întreruperii cursului sarcinii, din anul 1966, transformat în lege. | ||
05 / 28
Start: 17:00
Filmul traseaza o legatura intre o fabrica din China si strada Bourbon in timpul sarbatoarii Mardi Gras, expunand clar inechitatile globalizarii. Regizorul David Redmon juxtapune excesului consumist american, viata grea a lucratorilor din fabrica din China. Filmul urmareste povestile a patru tinere lucratoare in cea mai mare fabrica de produse Mardi Gras din lume, facandu-ne partasi la greutatile lor financiare, sacrificiul de sine, visele de viata mai buna si disciplina severa. Documentarul expune contrastul izbitor dintre vietile si libertatile femeilor apartinand celor doua culturi. Start: 19:00
Aceasta este o neasemuită poveste de dragoste şi ură ţesută în jurul a ceva ce nu poţi vedea, atinge sau cântări: undele radio. În anii '70-'80, Radio Europa Liberă era supapa de evacuare a nemulţumirilor şi confidentul a milioane de români. Însă pentru oamenii regimului, postul de radio era un duşman de moarte; l-au angajat chiar pe Carlos Şacalul să termine treaba. Start: 21:00
Regizorul Cornel Mihalache cauta un raspuns la intrebarea "Cine-a tras in noi, 21-22?", obsedanta intrebare de dupa decembrie 1989. O parte dintre personajele documentarului sunt revolutionari, dar in film apar si 350 de copii de clasa a VI-a, a VII-a si a VIII-a de la scoli din toata tara, care au raspuns la intrebarile "Ce s-a intamplat in 1989?" si "Cine a fost Ceausescu?". Cand interesante, cand aiuritoare, pline de haz, uneori si de miez, raspunsurile ilustreaza ecourile contradictorii ale unui eveniment asemenea. | ||
05 / 29
Start: 12:38
It's September 9, 2002, and a scheduled appearance by Benjamin Netanyahu, the former Israeli prime minister, has sparked heated debate at Montreal's Concordia University. By the end of the day, the "Concordia riot" has made international news, from CNN to Al-Jazeera. Discordia documents the fallout from that eventful day--following three young campus activists as they negotiate the most formative year of their lives. Samer Elatrash, articulate and impulsive, is the son of Palestinian refugees and active with Solidarity for Palestinian Human Rights. Start: 17:00
"Chiar daca nu ai auzit niciodata de James Nachtwey, mult premiatul fotoreporter care este subiectul exceptionalului documentar realizat de Christian Frei, vei descoperi ca esti familiarizat cu munca sa. De mai bine de 20 de ani Nachtwey calatoreste in lume in locuri devastate de razboaie, foamete si saracie documentand cu o claritate elocventa si devastatoare suferinta si cruzimea. A fost in Nicaragua la apogeul razboiului, in Africa de Sud in timpul singerosilor ani 80' si in Rwanda dupa genocidul din 1994. Start: 19:00
Roach traieste de la 14 ani pe strada. Este rebel, zgomotos si insolent. Roach a primit o camera video ca sa-si expuna lumea in care traieste. Materialul video este important pentru ca s-a pornit un adevarat razboi impotriva copiilor care spala parbrizele masinilor. Canera video a lui Roach este in "spatele liniilor inamice": traind in case in ruine, spaland parbrize pentru bani si fiind vanat de politie. Start: 21:00
Un vas de lux poarta calatorii in sus pe Yangtze, pe mitica ruta fluviala. In cel mai mare efort ingineresc, de la Marele Zid pana acum, China a hotarat sa stavileasca fluviul Yangtze cu cel mai mare baraj din lume. In timpul asta la marginea fluviului Yu Shui spune adio familiei si isi paraseste mica bucata de teren, cu lucrurile stranse intr-o punga de plastic. Apele cresc. | ||
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