10 / 14
Start: 19:00
End: 21:00
As part of a conference focused on the 50th anniversary of Isaiah Berlin's 'Two Concepts of Liberty' essay, this film will be screened for critical review. The conference will be a major academic event at UBC, with scholars coming from around the world to present their thoughts on both Berlin's historical significance and the ideal of freedom more generally.
The Trap: What Happened to Our Dream of Freedom is a BBC documentary series by English filmmaker Adam Curtis, well known for other documentaries including The Century of the Self and The Power of Nightmares.
Start: 19:00
End: 21:00
Headstrong Ayan, a refugee from Somalia, has big dreams. New to Canada, she’ll show anyone she can provide for her family. Still, it’s difficult to keep it all together. On top of the soaring rent, her daughters, 16-year-old Nasrah and 13-year-old Leila, need braces. And even working two jobs as a cleaner, it’s tough to find enough money to send to her anxious husband and two sons still stuck in East Africa.
Start: 19:30
End: 21:30
This groundbreaking documentary dissects a slanderous aspect of cinematic history that has run virtually unchallenged form the earliest days of silent film to today's biggest Hollywood blockbusters. Featuring acclaimed author Dr. Jack Shaheen, the film explores a long line of degrading images of Arabs--from Bedouin bandits and submissive maidens to sinister sheikhs and gun-wielding "terrorists"--along the way offering devastating insights into the origin of these stereotypic images, their development at key points in US history, and why they matter so much today.
Start: 19:30
“My ancestors have farmed this land generation after generation, and I just about ended the whole thing. What do you do when nothing is left? And in a rural community where you aren’t welcome because you’re kind of different.” —Farmer John Peterson
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10 / 15
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10 / 16
Start: 14:15
End: 15:30
In Collaboration with London Indymedia.
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10 / 17
Start: 19:00
War Dance is a powerful documentary that follows a group of schoolchildren as they overcome nearly insurmountable odds in their quest to participate in the annual Kampala Music Festival. For over 20 years, Northern Uganda has been a war zone, as a vicious rebel force, the Lords Resistance Army, has run rampant, destroying villages, kidnapping children, and murdering parents. The survivors are forced to live in refugee camps, where conditions are bleak and resources are scarce.
Start: 19:00
End: 21:00
The government of New Brunswick has handed the management of millions of acre of Crown land to six multinational corporations. In Forbidden Forest, we meet two very different men united by a passion to save the forest and to bring some of this public land under community control. Jean Guy Comeau is an Acadian woodlot owner who fought his way out of poverty and retired after nearly 40 years in a pulp mill. Born to a wealthy family, Francis Wishart is a painter and winemaker with homes in France and New Brunswick.
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10 / 18
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10 / 19
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10 / 20
Start: 19:30
End: 22:30
SYNOPSIS - THE WORLD ACCORDING TO MONSANTO:Monsanto is the world leader in genetically modified organisms (GMOs), as well as one of the most controversial corporations in industrial history. This century-old empire has created some of the most toxic products ever sold, including polychlorinated biphenyls (PCBs) and the herbicide Agent Orange. Based on a painstaking investigation, The World According to Monsanto puts together the pieces of the company’s history, calling on hitherto unpublished documents and numerous first-hand accounts.
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10 / 21
Start: 19:00
Fourteen centuries after the revelation of the holy Qur'an to the Prophet Muhammad (peace be upon him), Islam today is the world's second largest and fastest growing religion. Muslim gay filmmaker Parvez Sharma travels the many worlds of this dynamic faith discovering the stories of its most unlikely storytellers: lesbian and gay Muslims.
Start: 19:36
Learn about the search for identity, community conformity, organic farming, and the joys and dangers of driving a tractor while wearing a pink boa.
“My ancestors have farmed this land generation after generation, and I just about ended the whole thing. What do you do when nothing is left? And in a rural community where you aren’t welcome because you’re kind of different.” —Farmer John Peterson
Start: 20:00
SYNOPSIS - GARBAGE WARRIOR: What do beer cans, car tires and water bottles have in common? Not much unless you're renegade architect Michael Reynolds, in which case they are tools of choice for producing thermal mass and energy-independent housing. For 30 years New Mexico-based Reynolds and his green disciples have devoted their time to advancing the art of "Earthship Biotecture" by building self-sufficient, off-the-grid communities where design and function converge in eco-harmony.
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10 / 22
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10 / 23
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10 / 24
Start: 19:00
End: 21:00
View From a Grain of Sand is a journey through the last 30 years of Afghanistan's history as lived by three Afghan women. Shot over the last three years in Pakistan and Afghanistan, a doctor, teacher and social activist tell how their lives were violently affected by wars of international making and three different regimes in Afghanistan. Yet through all their loss, and the destruction of their homes and country, these women have endured.
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10 / 25
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10 / 26
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10 / 27
Start: 19:30
End: 22:30
This double-bill screening is co-sponsored by Tadamon! Filmmaker Mary Ellen Davis will be in attendance.
Click here to read an article about the film featured in Concordia's independent student newspaper, The Link.
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10 / 28
Start: 19:00
End: 21:00
This Is What Democracy Looks Like weaves together gripping video with narration by SUSAN SARANDON and music by RAGE AGAINST THE MACHINE to tell the real story of what happened in the streets of Seattle
during the 1999 WTO protests.
Start: 19:00
End: 21:00
What do beer cans, car tires and water bottles have in common?
Start: 20:00
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.
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10 / 29
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10 / 30
Start: 13:30
End: 15:00
In Collaboration with London Indymedia.
The Big Sell Out is a political film. In various episodes the abstract phenomenon of privatization 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 privatization 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 Organization (WTO).
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10 / 31
Start: 19:00
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.
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11 / 1
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11 / 2
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11 / 3
Start: 19:00
End: 22:00
The epic tale of a maverick Midwestern farmer. Castigated as a pariah in his community, Farmer John bravely transforms his farm amidst a failing economy, vicious rumors, and arson. He succeeds in creating a bastion of free expression and a revolutionary form of agriculture in rural America.
Featuring Guest Speaker, Ralph Martin of the Organic Agriculture Center of Canada (OACC)
Start: 19:30
A JIHAD FOR LOVE will be preceded by the short film A GIRL NAMED KAI (Kai Ling Xue / Canada / 2004 / 8 min): Using Super-8 and 16mm footage, filmmaker Kai Ling Xue opens her personal diary to us to reveal a journey about relationships, self-discovery, passion, secrets and dreams.. Thanks to Video Out for distributing this great short!
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11 / 4
Start: 15:45
End: 17:30
Imagine a home that heats itself, that provides its own water, hat grows its own food. Imagine that it needs no expensive technology, that it recycles its own waste, that it has its own power source. And now imagine that it can be built anywhere, by anyone, out of the things society throws away. Thirty years ago, architect Michael Reynolds imagined just such a home - then set out to build it. A visionary in the classic American mode, Reynolds has been fighting ever since to bring his concept to the public.
Start: 19:00
End: 21:00
In every corner of the globe, we are polluting, diverting, pumping, and wasting our limited supply of fresh water at an expediential level as population and technology grows. The rampant overdevelopment of agriculture, housing and industry increase the demands for fresh water well beyond the finite supply, resulting in the desertification of the earth.
Start: 19:34
End: 22:34
TENTATIVE SCREENING- TO BE CONFIRMED.
THE FILM
Start: 20:00
Wal-Mart: The High Cost of Low Price is the documentary film sensation that's changing the largest company on earth. The film features the deeply personal stories and everyday lives of families and communities struggling to survive in a Wal-Mart world. It's an emotional journey that will challenge the way you think, feel... and shop.
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11 / 5
Start: 19:00
End: 21:00
The accessibility of clean drinkable water supplies is a problem in many countries. In Argentina, California and South Africa, attempts to privatize this common good gave very mixed and even explosive results. Dead in the Water is an investigation on these efforts of privatization and on the alternative solutions brought by citizens.
After the screening, MIE members will discuss water privatization in Africa and in Montreal, and its consequences on the local population.
The event is organized in partnership with Cinema Politica and the Société environnementale de Côte-des-Neiges.
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11 / 6
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11 / 7
Start: 19:00
End: 21:00
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.
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11 / 8
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11 / 9
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11 / 10
Start: 17:00
End: 18:40
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.
Start: 19:30
End: 20:30
In time for Remembrance Day...
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. Narrated by actor and activist Sean Penn, the film exhumes remarkable archival footage of official distortion and exaggeration from LBJ to George W. Bush, revealing in stunning detail how the American news media have uncritically disseminated the pro-war messages of successive presidential administrations.
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11 / 11
Start: 15:45
End: 17:30
Please note: this screening is closed to the public and an in-class Cinema Politica screening.
Start: 20:00
The Times of Harvey Milk, directed by Rob Epstein, documents the political career of Harvey Milk, who was San Francisco's first openly gay supervisor. The film, at times humorous, at times nostalgic, and at times tragic, documents the rise of Milk from a neighborhood activist to becoming a symbol of gay political achievement, through to his assassination at San Francisco's city hall.
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11 / 12
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11 / 13
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