[CIMC-work] [Fwd: 3/15 & 3/22 screenings - Tragedy in the Holy Land & Palestine Is Still the Issue]

[Ian Bicking]

FYI, a competing showings

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From: programming <programming@chicagofilmmakers.org>
Subject: [Imc-chicago] 3/15 & 3/22 screenings - Tragedy in the Holy Land & Palestine Is Still the Issue
Date: 07 Mar 2003 12:17:46 +0000

[ please forward!! ]



CHICAGO FILMMAKERS PRESENTS



Saturday, March 15  --  7:00 pm     Chicago Filmmakers  (5243 N. Clark
St.)

War & Peace Series
Tragedy in the Holy Land: The Second Uprising
Director Denis Mueller in Person!
Co-presented by Citizens for Independent Public Broadcasting Chicago

Tragedy in the Holy Land: The Second Uprising (2001, 71 mins., video),
by Chicago filmmaker Denis Mueller, fills a void in the conventional
accounts of the Israeli/Palestinian struggle.  It gives the viewer
access to the voices and background of one of the most misunderstood and
misinterpreted conflicts of the last century.  This provocative
documentary addresses the core issues of land and identity.  It probes
the evolution of the seemingly incurable conflict in Palestine from a
historical perspective that is typically unknown to American audiences.
Using rarely seen archival footage and interviews with various experts
and scholars, Tragedy in the Holy Land offers vital information about
the roots of the current conflict and the ongoing struggle for survival
and dignity.  Admission: $7 general; $3 Chicago Filmmakers Members.


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Saturday, March 22  --  7:00 pm     Chicago Filmmakers  (5243 N. Clark
St.)

War & Peace Series
Palestine Is Still the Issue
Co-presented by Citizens for Independent Public Broadcasting Chicago

Palestine Is Still the Issue (2002, 53 mins., video) directed by Anthony
Stark; written and presented by John Pilger (Paying the Price: Killing
the Children of Iraq).  In 1977, the award-winning journalist and
filmmaker, John Pilger, made a documentary called Palestine Is Still the
Issue.  He told how almost a million Palestinians had been forced off
their land in 1948, and again in 1967.  In this new in-depth
documentary, he has returned to the West Bank of the Jordan and Gaza,
and to Israel, to ask why the Palestinians, whose right of return was
affirmed by the United Nations more than half a century ago, are still
caught in a terrible limbo -- refugees in their own land, controlled by
Israel in the longest military occupation in modern times.  In a series
of extraordinary interviews with both Palestinians and Israelis, Pilger
weaves together the issue of Palestine.  He speaks to the families of
suicide bombers and their victims; he sees the humiliation of
Palestinians imposed on them at myriad checkpoints; he goes into the
refugee camps and meets children who, he says, "no longer dream like
other children, or if they do, it is about death."  Admission is free
but a $7 donation is suggested.




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