Let Them Stay & Occupation: Dreamland
Monday
Jan 16
07:30 pm
For this special Cinema Politica event we will have some US war resisters present to introduce the films and to answer any questions from the audience.
Let Them Stay
Alex Lisman / CA / 2005 / 28 ' / English
Will Canada give US war resisters refuge from a war they deem illegal?
Synopsis
"Let Them Stay" features exclusive one-on-one interviews with U.S. war resisters in Canada, documenting their life-changing experiences in Iraq and the hidden realities of U.S. military recruitment and warfare. It also documents the War Resisters Support Campaign, a pan-Canadian coalition of labour, faith and peace groups, Vietnam war resisters, and individuals who are working with these war resisters to put pressure on the current federal government to let them stay.
Occupation: Dreamland
Garrett Scott and Ian Olds / US / 2005 / 88 ' / English
An unflinchingly candid portrait of a squad of American soldiers deployed in the doomed Iraq city of Falluja during the winter of 2004.
Synopsis
Occupation: Dreamland is an unflinchingly candid portrait of a squad of American soldiers deployed in the doomed Iraq city of Falluja during the winter of 2004. A collective study of the soldiers unfolds as they patrol an environment of low-intensity conflict creeping steadily towards catastrophe. Through the squads activities Occupation: Dreamland provides a vital glimpse into the last days of Falluja. The film documents the citys waning stability before a final series of military assaults began in the spring of 2004 that effectively destroyed it. Filmmakers Garrett Scott and Ian Olds were given access to all operations of the Armys 82nd Airborne.
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