at the New Theatre · 43 East Essex Street · Dublin 2
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at the New Theatre · 43 East Essex Street · Dublin 2 |
| Earlier showings |
| Sunday 2 March 2008
7:30 p.m. Sisters in Law (2005) 
Directed by Kim Longinotto and Florence Ayisi. A fascinating and sometimes amusing documentary that follows the work of a state prosecutor, Vera Ngassa, and court president, Beatrice Ntuba, as they help women in Cameroon fight difficult cases of marital abuse, despite pressure from families and the community to remain silent. In Cameroon English, with English subtitles. |
| Sunday 9 March 2008
7:30 p.m. I Saw Ben Barka Get Killed (2004) 
Written and directed by Serge Le Péron. A dramatised account of a notorious political scandal. The Moroccan intellectual and national liberation leader Mehdi Ben Barka disappeared in 1965 after being picked up by the French police in Paris. The official account was that nothing was known about the incident; but the involvement of the criminal world together with the French police tells a different story. In French with English subtitles. |
| Sunday 16 March 2008
7:30 p.m. Fast Food Nation (2006) 
Written and directed by Richard Linklater. A drama loosely based on the book by Eric Schlosser. A researcher goes to the slaughterhouse that supplies the meat for America’s best-selling hamburgers. There he discovers that the industrial production of food involves not only contamination but the exploitation of illegal immigrants as well as other abuses. |
| Sunday 15 June 2008
7:30 p.m. Days of Glory (2006) 
Directed by Rachid Bouchareb. A drama about the plight of North African soldiers who fought for France in the Second World War. It follows a company of Algerian soldiers who fight against fascist Germany in Morocco and Italy and then in France, where their sacrifices for the “Motherland” are rewarded with discrimination. In French and Arabic, with English subtitles. |
| Sunday 29 June 2008
7:30 p.m. Venezuela Bolivariana: People and Struggle of the Fourth World War (2004) 
Directed by Marcelo Andrade Arreaza. Venezuela Bolivariana looks at the Bolivarian Revolution in Venezuela as part of the worldwide movement against globalisation. It shows the evolution of the popular movement from the “Caracazo” demonstrations of 1989 to the massive actions that brought the revolutionary president, Hugo Chávez, back to power forty-eight hours after a US-led coup in 2002. The film ends with an epilogue that shows how the Venezuelan people are not only fighting against the oligarchy and imperialism but are exercising people’s power in the “revolution within the Revolution.” In Spanish, with English subtitles. |
| Sunday 6 July 2008
7:30 p.m. West Beyrouth (1998) 
Directed by Ziad Doueiri. In April 1975 civil war breaks out; Beirut is partitioned along a Muslim-Christian line. Tarek is in secondary school, making super-8 films with his friend, Omar. At first the war is a lark: school has closed, the violence is fascinating, getting from West to East is a game . . . As Tarek comes of age, the war moves inexorably from adventure to tragedy. In Arabic and French, with English subtitles. |
| Sunday 13 July 2008
7:30 p.m. Water (2005) 
Directed by Deepa Mehta. A compelling film that explores the role of women in traditional Indian society. It is set in the 1930s, when Hindu widows were often condemned to live in an ashram or “widows’ house,” where they led a life of little comfort and little hope. But some rebelled, including eight-year-old Chuyia, who becomes a widow after the death of her elderly husband. In Hindī, with English subtitles. |
| Sunday 22 February 2009
7:30 p.m. Jerusalem: East Side Story (2008) 
Directed by Muhammad al‐Atar. In 1948 the western part of Jerusalem, capital city of Palestine, was captured by zionists; in 1967 the eastern part was taken into Israeli occupation. Since then Israel has pursued “Jewish demographic superiority” in Jerusalem, as elsewhere, driving out Muslims and Christians and denying their history, identity, and land rights. This film includes interviews with Palestinian people, Israeli settlers, and human‐rights activists. |
| Sunday 1 March 2009
7:30 p.m. Walking the Line (2008)
Directed by Jeremy Levine and Landon van Soest. This film follows the members of heavily armed vigilante organisations in the United States as they hunt down illegal immigrants from Mexico, hundreds of whom die every year. ★★★★★★★★★★★★★★★★★★★★★ Also ★★★★★★★★★★★★★★★★★★★★★ Tambogrande (2007)
Directed by Ernesto Cabellos and Stephanie Boyd. An inspiring film showing how the people of this Peruvian town successfully resisted the attempts of a Canadian mining company and a corrupt government to destroy it. In Spanish, with English subtitles. |
| Sunday 15 March 2009
7:30 p.m. Paralelo 36 [Latitude 36] (2005)
Directed by José Luis Tirado. Latitude 36, which passes through the Straits of Gibraltar, constitutes the border between Spain and Morocco. This is a compelling film about clandestine immigrants from North Africa and the brutal fate that awaits them in Spain. It is hard to classify: it combines documentary footage with animation, haunting images, words, and music. This is a film that will remain in your mind for some time. In Spanish and Arabic, with English subtitles. |
| Sunday 22 March 2009
7:30 p.m. Granito de Arena [Grain of Sand] (2005)
Directed by Jill Freidberg. For more than twenty years neo‐liberal policies have dictated the dismantling of public education in Mexico. Hundreds of thousands of teachers, pupils, parents and community activists have resisted these policies and as a result have faced brutal repression. In Spanish and English. |
| Sunday 29 March 2009
7:30 p.m. Sir! No, Sir! (2005)
Produced, written and directed by David Zeiger. In the 1960s an American anti-war movement with a difference emerged that altered the course of history. This one was not in universities or on the streets but in barracks and on aircraft-carriers; it penetrated military colleges; and it spread throughout the battlefields of Viet Nam. It was a movement no-one expected, least of all those in it. Hundreds of American soldiers went to prison, and thousands into exile. By 1971 it had (in the words of one officer) “infested” the entire armed services. Yet today few people know about it.
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