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.
Events
02 / 25
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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: 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: 19:30
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. | ||
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
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. 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. | ||
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
Azi muncitorii manuali nu mai sunt cantati in imnuri de recunostinta. 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. | ||
