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.
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02 / 15
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: 23:00
For the New World Order, a world government is just the beginning. Once in place they can engage their plan to exterminate 80% of the world's population, while enabling the "elites" to live forever with the aid of advanced technology. For the first time, crusading filmmaker ALEX JONES reveals their secret plan for humanity's extermination: Operation ENDGAME. Jones chronicles the history of the global elite's bloody rise to power and reveals how they have funded dictators and financed the bloodiest wars—creating order out of chaos to pave the way for the first true world empire. 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: 22:30
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: 19:00
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: 22:00
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: 19:30
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: 23:30
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: 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: 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. | ||
