Events

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
Iraqi mother to help for her 10-year-old son, Sari, who is dying of AIDS.

The Zegum family lives in the restive Mahmudiyah area of central Iraq. They make their living by selling milk and
butter, farming land rented from their neighbors. As the film opens US military helicopters are flying low over their

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.

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.