at the New Theatre · 43 East Essex Street · Dublin 2
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at the New Theatre · 43 East Essex Street · Dublin 2 |
| A selection of 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 8 March 2009
International Women’s Day Film Festival |
11 a.m.
Olga Benario: A Life for the Revolution (2004)
Written and directed by Galip İyitanır. A dramatised documentary about the life of Olga Benario Prestes, a young German anti-fascist. After being arrested in Berlin for “preparations for high treason” she fled to Moscow, where she trained as an underground agent. She then travelled to Brazil, where she helped to organise what was hoped to be an uprising against the Brazilian fascist government. In German, with English sub-titles. Running time: 145 minutes. |
2 p.m.
Women with Balls (2005)
A community-made film. Fatima Mansions were traditionally portrayed as a community stigmatised by drug abuse and crime. The women of Rialto History Group wanted to tell their own stories, showing a different past and at the same time giving an honest appraisal of their lives. They wanted to explore their own culture, especially the humorous rivalry between the two communities of Dolphin’s Barn and Fatima Mansions. Making this film was an opportunity to explore how a community can recover from exclusion by telling its own story in a creative way. Running time: 30 minutes. ★★★★★★★★★★★★★★★★★★★★★ Also ★★★★★★★★★★★★★★★★★★★★★ Making History in Fatima (2006)
Directed by Paula Geraghty. Making History in Fatima is a compelling documentary that explores some of the motivations behind the making of the film Women with Balls. It charts the women’s experience in their own words and in an engaging and sensitive manner. Running time: 30 minutes. ★★★★★★★★★★★★★★★★★★★★★ Also ★★★★★★★★★★★★★★★★★★★★★ Mosquito Bites (2005)
Written and directed by Treasa O’Brien. Consumer culture, corporate policing and the privatisation of public space are explored in this short film about the “mosquito,” a device that emits an extremely irritating sound at a frequency that most older people cannot hear. Two of these devices have been installed by the owners of Paul Street Shopping Centre in Cork to deter teenagers from gathering in Rory Gallagher Square. Running time: 15 minutes. |
5:30 p.m.
The Future of Feminism (2007)
Directed by Cara Holmes. The Future of Feminism is an introduction to the concepts of feminism, how people perceive feminism today, and why it is essential that feminism continue to exist in our consumerist societies. The film was shot in Dublin, Belfast, Copenhagen, and Berlin. The director says that the intention was to keep the film short and to simply portray feminism in a positive light. Running time: 35 minutes. ★★★★★★★★★★★★★★★★★★★★★ Also ★★★★★★★★★★★★★★★★★★★★★ Hablemos del Poder [Talking of Power] (2005)
Sex, race and class in revolutionary Venezuela. From the hills of Caracas to the banks of the Orinoco, grass-roots women’s groups tell how they are changing our world. In Spanish, with English subtitles. Running time: 65 minutes. |
7 p.m.
Schwarzer Kanal (2007)
Directed by Cara Holmes. The Schwarzer Kanal is a space on the bank of the River Spree in Berlin where people traditionally pull up in caravans and live there for however long they want and in the way that they want. However, the site is under constant threat from a gentrification process that threatens to “clean up” such sites in order to build apartment blocks and offices—nowadays mostly empty! Running time: 15 minutes. ★★★★★★★★★★★★★★★★★★★★★ Also ★★★★★★★★★★★★★★★★★★★★★ Tierra de Mujeres [Land of Women] (2003)
Directed by Adriana Estrada. Being indigenous in Chiapas (Mexico) generally means being poor and discriminated against. For indigenous women it’s even worse, because they often have no rights even within their own society. The Zapatista uprising of 1994 was a turning-point. Step by step, indigenous women have struck back, in daily life and in defending their villages against military incursions. Peasant women, teachers, religious activists, craftswomen, midwives—they are all fighting for a better future. Accompanied by expressive pictures, women talk about their lives, their difficulties and fears, and their hopes. In Spanish, with English subtitles. Running time: 57 minutes. |
| 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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