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Borders and
Nazareth 2000
Showing: Sunday July 15th at 1.00pm
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| Daily life
is reflected in Nazareth |
A double bill
which focuses on life in the Middle East. Borders is a documentary
which records personal accounts of life along the borders of Israel,
Lebanon, Syria and Jordan.
Violence, prostitution,
smuggling, war and death are all subjects of conversation.
Nazareth
2000 sees filmmaker Hany Abu-Assad returning to his home city
just months before the new millennium.
His vision of
the modern city is seen through the eyes of two petrol station attendants
who have lived there for decades. They describe the tension surrounding
Nazareth, a city where 72 percent of the population is Muslim but
most of the land is owned by Christian institutions.
Good Kurds,
Bad Kurds
Showing:
Monday July 16th at 6.00pm
A controversial
film which was nine years in the making. Controversial because it
has a pop at the media and America.
Photojournalist
Kevin McKiernan initially set out to record an uprising in northern
Iraq against Saddam Hussein.
He then discovered
a war no-one else was bothering to cover - a campaign of ethnic
cleansing against Kurdish minorities by the Turkish military using
weapons made in the US.
A Long Night's
Journey into Day
Showing: Sunday July 22nd at 1.30pm
A film of apartheid
in South Africa. It concentrates on four events which came before
the country's Truth and Reconciliation Commission.
They include
the black killers of a US student and the ANC fighters who bombed
a Durban bar on a Saturday night.
The film records
the testimonies of those involved but also looks at the healing
process in overcoming such acts of violence.
The Diplomat
Showing: Sunday 29th July at 1.30pm
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| Fighting
for East Timor |
A portrait of
the East Timorese Independence leader Jose Ramos Horta.
A man who doesn't
mince his words, the film covers two years in the struggle for his
country.
In the mid-70's
Horta was foreign minister for the country. He was en route to New
York, looking for support, when the land was invaded by Indonesia.
He was forced
into exile and spent the next quarter of a century lobbying the
United Nations to recognise the rights of the Timorese people.
Jung: In
the land of the Mujaheddin
Showing: Monday 30th July at 6.00pm
A modern day
view of Afghanistan through the eyes of a surgeon and a war correspondent
who join forces and set up a hospital in the country.
Afghanistan
has suffered the ravages of war for the past 20 years. It's riddled
with burnt out houses and schools and families which have lost loved
ones.
It's a land
where women are beaten if they're seen in the street showing any
parts of their legs.
The countryside
is covered with mines; innocent victims stand on them everyday.
The hospital
has to cope with all these casualties of war and religion - a never
ending uphill struggle.
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