>> (Thursday) Film Showing: IN THIS WORLD
Friday, January 23, 2009 - 09:02 PM
KEEPING IT REEL! QPIRG-Concordia’s Subversive Cinema Series (January-April 2009)
feature film: IN THIS WORLD
by Michael Winterbottom
(director of
“The Road to Guantanamo" and the upcoming
“The Shock Doctrine”)
THURSDAY, JANUARY 29, 7pm
1455 de Maisonneuve West, H-110
(metro Guy-Concordia)
IN THIS WORLD follows the hazardous journey of two Afghan boys as they travel from Pakistan through Iran, Turkey, Italy, France and the UK in search of refuge in London. A moving and dramatic story that reveals the desperate measures people take to escape persecution and the life-threatening conditions they find themselves in along the way. (2003; 88 minutes; subtitles in English).
The feature film will be preceded by a short film about local migrant justice struggles in Montreal, and followed by a discussion period involving local migrant justice groups.
Info: 514-848-7584 – info@qpirgconcordia.org - www.qpirgconcordia.org
Welcome to all. FREE. Wheelchair accessible.
Upcoming films in the Subversive Cinema Series:
- February 12:
FLOW: For the Love of Water (2008 award-winning documentary)
- March 18:
P4W: Prison for Women (NFB classic film); followed by special guest speaker Anne Hansen (former inmate at the Kingston Prison for Women)
- April 15:
AMERICAN OUTRAGE (2008 award-winning film about indigenous sovereignty)
All showings at 1455 de Maisonneuve Ouest, H-110 at 7pm. Feature films are preceded by a short film. More info below about upcoming films (click on title to read more).
Wednesday, February 11, 7pm
theme: water
feature film:
FLOW: For the Love of Water
Award-winning 2008 documentary by Irina Salina
FLOW (For the Love of Water) is a documentary investigation into what experts label the most important political and environmental issue of the 21st Century - The World Water Crisis. FLOW builds a case against the growing privatization of the world's dwindling fresh water supply with an unflinching focus on politics, pollution, human rights, and the emergence of a domineering world water cartel. Interviews with scientists and activists intelligently reveal the rapidly building crisis, at both the global and human scale, and the film introduces many of the governmental and corporate culprits behind the water grab, while begging the question "Can anyone really own water" (2008 release; 93 minutes)
Wednesday, March 18, 7pm
theme: women, prison, justice & direct action
feature film:
P4W: PRISON FOR WOMEN
followed by special guest speaker: Anne Hansen (former inmate at Kingston’s Prison for Women; and author of “Direct Action: Memoirs of an Urban Guerrilla”)
P4W: Prison for Women is a shattering look at love and isolation in the most desperate of places. The film centres on five women inmates - their stores, their relationships and their lives - inside Canada's only Prison for Women in Kingston, Ontario. The complex fabric of this invisible community is revealed through the use of interviews, monologues and powerful verité sequences. (Canada, 1980, 90 minutes)
Wednesday, April 15, 7pm
theme: indigenous sovereignty
feature film:
AMERICAN OUTRAGE
Two elderly Western Shoshone sisters, the Danns, put up a heroic fight for their land rights and human rights. AMERICAN OUTRAGE asks why the United States government has spent millions persecuting and prosecuting two elderly women grazing a few hundred horses and cows in a desolate desert? (2008 release, USA, 55 minutes)
[All feature films preceded by a short film, and followed by a discussion period involving working groups of QPIRG-Concordia.]
