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Human Rights Watch Film Festival, Boston Jan 24-27
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (KumaLisa@aol.com)
Wed Jan 9 09:56:09 2002
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Lots of interesting possibilities!
-Lisa
www.hrw.org/iff
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> The upcoming Human Rights Watch Film
> Festival will take place January 24-27 at venues around the Boston area.
> The
> festival is a rare opportunity to see how people are viewing human
> rights in
> different regions from a number of different perspectives.
>
> Two of the films showing on Saturday, January 26, PROMISES by BZ
> Goldberg
> and Mai Masri's FRONTIERS OF DREAMS AND FEARS feature the Dheisheh
> refugee
> camp in Bethlehem where Grassroots International supports the work of
> the
> Ibdaa Cultural Center. Both filmmakers will be in town to answer
> questions
> following the screening of their films. Ziad Abbas of Ibdaa will also
> be
> present.
>
> If you wish to attend ANY of the festival screenings, you should
> consider
> purchasing tickets in advance. Last year all shows sold out!
>
> The complete list of screenings is appended below in alphabetical
> order by
> the film title.
>
> Best,
> Kevin Murray
> Grassroots International
>
> ---------------
>
> Human Rights Watch International Film Festival - Boston
> 24th-27th January, 2002 at the Coolidge Corner Movie Theatre, the
> International Institute of Boston and the Museum of Fine Arts
>
> Featuring eighteen films on human rights from around the world ...
>
> "Either human rights are valid for everyone or else they're just
> privileges."
> - Dr. Gino Strada, from JUNG (WAR): In the Land of the Mujaheddin
>
> Tickets are $8 for most shows and $10 for opening and closing shows
> with
> reception. Advanced ticket purchase is encouraged.
>
> For more information, go to www.hrw.org/iff or call 617-641-2881
>
> BARAN - SPECIAL SCREENING Sunday, January 27 at noon at the Coolidge
> Corner
> Movie Theatre
>
> An Iranian youth comes of age as he discovers the secret of an Afghan
> refugee co-worker, leading him on a new and unexpected personal
> journey.
>
> BEHIND CLOSED EYES - Friday, January 25 at 6 PM and 8:30 PM at the
> International Institute of Boston
> Filmmaker Duco Tellegen present
>
> Four war-scarred children - from Cambodia, Kosovo, Liberia and Rwanda
> -triumph over their pasts experiences as child soldiers, refugees and
> victims of violence, rape and slavery and learn to rebuild their
> lives.
>
> CHILDREN UNDERGROUND - Friday, January 25 at 6 PM at the MFA
> Filmmaker Edet Belzberg present.
>
> Five Romanian street children tell their own stories of survival.
>
> DOMESTIC VIOLENCE - Saturday, January 26 at 1:00 PM at the MFA
> Filmmaker Frederick Wiseman present Wiseman's latest release takes a
> hard
> look at police response to domestic violence calls and life in The
> Spring,
> Tampa's primary shelter
> for women and children.
>
> FRONTIERS OF DREAMS AND FEARS - Saturday, January 26 at 6 PM in the
> Coolidge
> Corner Video Room
>
> Two young Palestinian girls, one from the Shatila refugee camp in
> Beirut and
> the other from the Dheisha camp near Bethlehem, correspond and then
> meet at
> the Israeli/Lebanese border.
>
> JUNG (WAR): IN THE LAND OF THE MUJAHEDDIN - Saturday, January 26 at
> 4PM and
> 7 PM at the International Institute of Boston and Friday, January 25
> at 8:20
> and Sunday, January 27 at 3:30 PM at the MFA
>
> Filmmakers Fabrizio Lazzaretti, Giuseppe Petitto, and Alberto
> Vendemmiati present at all screenings.
>
> A penetrating look at survival in the midst of civil war as an Italian
> surgeon and a war correspondent join forces to set up a hospital in
> war
> ravaged Afghanistan.
>
> LIFE AND DEBT - CLOSING NIGHT with reception to follow screening
> Sunday, January 27 at 7:30 PM at the Coolidge Corner Movie Theatre
> Filmmaker
> Stephanie Black present.
>
> Travel to the island of Jamaica for an unapologetic look at
> globalization and IMF policies through the eyes of Jamaican workers,
> farmers, and government officials. Based on a book by Jamaica Kincaid
> and
> with music by Ziggy and Bob Marley, Buju Banton, Mutabarukza and
> others.
>
> LIVING AFTERWARDS: WORDS OF WOMEN - Saturday, January 26 at noon and
> 2PM at
> the International Institute of Boston
>
> An intimate chronicle of three young Bosnian women mourning the loss
> of
> loved ones and home and beginning life anew in the wake of civil war
>
> Preceded by
> POSTCARD FROM PEJE
> Kosovo teenagers create a video postcard of their experiences during
> and
> after the war.
>
> LOIN - OPENING NIGHT with reception to follow the screening.
> Thursday, January 24 at 7:30 PM at the MFA
>
> Serge, a French truck driver and Sarah, a Moroccan Jew, are
> star-crossed
> lovers in Andre Techine's newest film set in Tangiers against the
> backdrop
> of immigration and cross-border smuggling.
>
> MY AMERICAN GIRLS - Sunday, January 27 at noon and 2 PM in the
> Coolidge
> Corner Video Room
> Filmmaker Aaron Matthews present.
>
> A year in the life of three Dominican teenage girls and their parents
> as
> they discover the gains - and costs - of pursuing the American dream.
>
> MY AMERICAN GRANDMOTHER - Saturday, January 26 at 5 PM in the Coolidge
> Corner Video Room
>
> "Love brought our two worlds together. History pulled them apart,"
> narrates
> filmmaker Iraqi-born Aysha Ghazoul in her exploration of her
> relationship
> with her Texan-born grandmother.
>
> NAZARETH 2000 - Saturday, January 26 at 7:30 PM and 9 PM at the
> Coolidge
> Corner Video Room
>
> Two funny, cynical and wise gas station attendants observe the
> controversy
> over their town square, sacred to both Christians and Muslims, on the
> eve of
> the millennium.
>
> PROMISES - Saturday, January 26 at 12:30 PM at the Coolidge Corner
> Movie
> Theater
>
> Seven Israeli and Palestinian children offer a dramatic, touching and
> sometimes hilarious insight into the Middle East conflict and growing
> up in
> Jerusalem.
>
> RALPH BUNCHE: AN AMERICAN ODYSSEY - Friday, January 25 at 6 PM and
> 8:30 PM
> in the Coolidge Corner Video Room -
>
> The compelling personal story of the African American scholar turned
> UN
> statesman, mediator of the 1949 Middle East armistice, 1950 Nobel
> Prize
> winner, humanitarian and advocate for decolonization and human rights
> in
> pre-civil rights America.
>
> SISTERS IN RESISTANCE - Sunday, January 27 at 4 PM and 6 PM in the
> Coolidge
> Corner Video Room
> Filmmaker Maia Wechsler present.
>
> Four French women, who risked their lives to fight Nazi occupation,
> were
> arrested and survived the Ravensbruck concentration camp, recount
> their
> stories of determination and friendship.
>
> TITICUT FOLLIES - Saturday, January 26 at 10:30 AM at the MFA
> Filmmaker Frederick Wiseman present
> The only film ever censored in the US for reasons other than national
> security or obscenity, Wiseman's classic first film offers a stark and
> graphic portrayal of the conditions that existed at Bridgewater State
> Hospital for the Criminally Insane.
>
> UMM KULTHUM, A VOICE LIKE EGYPT - Saturday, January 26 at 3 PM in the
> Coolidge Corner Video Room
> Filmmaker Michal Goldman present.
> She had the musicality of Ella Fitzgerald, the public presence of
> Eleanor
> Roosevelt, and the audience of Elvis Presley. The film puts her life
> in the
> context of the epic story of 20th century Egypt as it shook off
> colonialism
> and confronted modernity.
>
> Tickets are $8 for most shows and $10 for opening and closing shows
> with
> reception. Advanced ticket purchase is encouraged.
>
> For more information, visit http://www.hrw.org/iff or call
> 617-641-2881
> Or contact the individual venues at the coordinates below.
>
> Coolidge Corner Theatre
> 290 Harvard Street
> Brookline, MA 02446
> 617 734 2500 (recorded information)
> 617 734 2501 (office)
> Email: coolcorn@aol.com
> www.coolidge.org
> Coolidge Corner T stop on the C Green line
>
>
> International Institute of Boston
> One Milk Street
> Boston, MA 02109
> 617 338 6022
> Email. chilge@iiboston.org
> www.iiboston.org
> Downtown Crossing, Park Street, or State Street T stops
>
>
> Museum of Fine Arts
> 465 Huntington Av
> Boston, MA 02115
> 617 369 3300
> www.mfa.org/film
> Museum of Fine Arts T stop on the E Green line
>
> For MFA TICKETS ONLY: $8 general admission; $7 for MFA members,
> seniors, &
> students. Tickets may be purchased by visiting or calling the Remis
> Box
> Office at 617 369 3770 (Hours: Sat-Tues, 10 AM - 4:30 PM; Wed-Fri, 10
> AM
> -8:30 PM). Or call the 24-hour automated line at 617-369-3306.
> Cash, checks, and credit cards accepted. $2 processing fee for phone
> orders.
> Nota Bene: All same-day ticket purchases must be made in person at the
> Box
> Office.
>
