FILM FESTIVAL
Haunted Land | Checkpoint | S.P.I.T. | Promises
Productions B'alba presents
HAUNTED LAND
Showing on March 27th at 8:00 in Frank Dawson Auditorium.
A documentary by Mary Ellen Davis with the participation of Mateo Pablo and Daniel Hernández-Salazar
« A moving work, and a great testimony to keep breaking
the silence about the genocide in Guatemala. »
- Rigoberta Menchú Tum, Nobel Peace PrizeLanza de Amaru Siona Award 2001, IV Festival de la Serpiente, Quito,
Ecuador
Two paths cross
on a tortuous descent into Guatemala's tragic past: that of Mateo Pablo, Maya
survivor of one of many massacres that took place during the country's recent
civil war, and Daniel Hernández-Salazar, Guatemalan artist and photographer
whose work grapples with local human rights violations. Together they travel
to a remote site in the highlands where the community of Petanac once stood,
before its destruction by the Guatemalan army in 1982. The bones found in
this
clandestine cemetery tell their own mute story of agony and terror, once the
dirt has been patiently removed by teams of forensic archaeologists. For those
still alive, the time has come to break the silence.
Canada-Guatemala 2001, 74 minutes
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CHECKPOINT | A documentary
* * * Sponsored by Solidarity for Palestinian Human Rights - MCGILL
Showing
March 26th, 2002 | 14:00 - 16:30 | Clubs
Lounge
Checkpoint
takes a critical look at the Oslo Peace Agreement and its aftermath. With
offbeat humor, warmth and insight, it offers an unorthodox appraisal you wont's
hear from network soundbites. The documentary explores recent events that
seem to herald a collapse of the historic agreement.
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S.P.I.T.
Showing
March 26th, 2002 | 14:00 - 16:30 | Clubs
Lounge
Roach has been living
on the streets since age 14, he's rebellious, loud and defiant. As part of
S.P.I.T., Roach has been given a camera to document his world. The footage
he gets is urgent, because there's a war against squeegee kids. The RoachCAM
is positioned behind enemy lines: living in derelict buildings, squeegeeing
for money, being hunted by police. The viewer is forced to look at the living
reality of Roach and his friends: Hungry on the streets in one of the world's
most prosperous countries, classified as thugs, criminals, and enemies. These
kids refuse to obey, assimilate, and conform to society's values - their beliefs
and realities are scarred into their flesh in the form of piercings, tattoos,
track marks, bruised veins, rotting teeth, gangrene, scurvy...
S.P.I.T. shatters
the windshield between Us and Them. Roach's camera acts as the hammer: hard,
forceful, direct; impacting with the force of an actual life. Daniel Cross'
camera documents the impact: recording the reflections of individual lives,
mirrored upon the shards of flying glass., mirrored upon the shards of flying
glass.
For More information go to www.spit.ca
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PROMISES
To be Shown 8:30, March 25th In the FDA
Rather
than focusing on political events, the seven children featured in Promises
offer a compelling human portrait of the Israeli & Palestinian conflict.
The film draws viewers into the hearts and minds of Jerusalem's children by
giving voice to those captured by the region's hatreds as well as those able
to transcend them.
These seven children are between the ages of 9-13, an age group that rarely
has the opportunity to speak for itself. They are less self-conscious and
polite than teenagers and adults. They speak directly and without self-censorship
and are both true mirrors of their cultures and spokespeople for future generations
of Israelis and Palestinians.
For
more information go to www.promisesproject.org
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