[Indigsol] May 14 & 15: THE MAPUCHE SOLIDARITY FILM FESTIVAL - OTTAWA

[hullabaloo at riseup.net]

THE MAPUCHE SOLIDARITY FILM FESTIVAL - OTTAWA
In memory of our Mapuche WEICHAFE [WARRIORS] MATIAS CATRILEO & ALEX 
LEMUN, & the many others (indigenous and non-indigenous) who have been 
murdered by the repressive forces of the Chilean State.

Saturday May 14th and Sunday, May 15th 2016
Faculty of Social Sciences (FSS at UOttawa) room 4004 – 120 University

*ALL NON-ENGLISH LANGUAGE FILMS WITH ENGLISH SUBTITLES*

Suggested donation $10 per day at the door (No one turned away for lack 
of funds)

Speakers TBA!
Organized by: The Women’s Coordinating Committee for a Free Wallmapu 
[Toronto]

http://wccctoronto.wordpress.com/
Co-Sponsored by: Indigenous Peoples Solidarity Movement Ottawa IPSMO
https://ipsmo.wordpress.com/
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OPENING RECEPTION: 3PM - SATURDAY, MAY 14th (FSS 4004)

4PM - Sewatokwa’tshera’t: The Dish with One Spoon, Six Nations/Turtle 
Island, 2008 (82 minutes).

Commemorating 10th anniversary since the Six Nations Reclamation of 
Kanonhstaton, WCCC [Toronto] proudly presents the screening of 
Sewatokwa’tshera’t: The Dish with One Spoon. We wish the most profound 
NEWEN to our Haudenosaunee sisters and brothers in the ongoing struggle 
against colonial encroachment.

Outlining the intricate history of the Haudenosaunee Peoples, Dr. Dawn 
Martin-Hill depicts the process of indigenous self-governance, colonial 
displacement and resistance to ongoing encroachment in the film, 
Sewatokwa’tshera’t: The Dish with One Spoon. Culminating in the 2006 
reclamation of the Douglas Creek Estates subdivision – Kanonhstaton 
(“the protected place”) – the film explores the development of 
Haudenosaunee nation to nation treaties with the Dutch and English 
Crowns, and the succeeding encroachment of the Canadian State on Six 
Nations land. The film features an intimate view into the events of the 
Six Nations Reclamation, including the Ontario Provincial Police (OPP) 
raid on April 20th 2006, and neighbouring settler backlash/racism. The 
resilience of a community reflected in its youth, is seen through the 
Unity Run and Youth Declaration to the UN Assembly in 2007, following in 
the footsteps of Deskaheh for the next seven generations.

5:30M – NGÜENÉN: The Deceit [El Engaño), Wallmapu, 2012 (81 minutes)

A documentary made by the directors of “El Despojo” (The Plunder) 
focusing on the international political dynamics of the “War on Terror,” 
and the counterintelligence strategies used to criminalize the Mapuche 
struggle for Autonomy and Territorial Reclamation. Lies and deceit are 
as old as war itself. The objective of these intelligence actions called 
“Psychological Operations” (or PsyOps) is to destroy the morale of the 
enemy and assure the approval of the population through propaganda, 
misinformation, manipulation, the fabrication of news, omission, 
decontextualization (etc). Everything to allow for a SETUP, since “to 
convince is to overcome.” Chilean Prosecutor, Mario Elgueta, whom was 
the alleged victim of an annihilating attack in southern Chile, was also 
a student in an FBI and CSIS antiterrorist course in Virginia USA. 
Later, the events became grounds for 17 Mapuche land defenders to face 
trial under the Antiterrorist Law, at first risking a total of up to 800 
years in prison. Four bicentennials on the backs of those who oppose the 
arrogance of the Chilean State. A must see film on the ongoing 
criminalization of the indigenous Mapuche struggle.

https://youtu.be/cALa8z9gIOM

7PM - Trick or Treaty, Turtle Island, 2014 (84 minutes).

This feature documentary by acclaimed filmmaker Alanis Obomsawin 
(Kanehsatake: 270 Years of Resistance) profiles Indigenous leaders in 
their quest for justice as they seek to establish dialogue with the 
Canadian government. By tracing the history of their ancestors since the 
signing of Treaty No. 9, these leaders aim to raise awareness about 
issues vital to First Nations in Canada: respect for and protection of 
their lands and their natural resources, and the right to hunt and fish 
so that their societies can prosper. In recent years, an 
awareness-raising movement has been surfacing in First Nations 
communities. In this powerful documentary, those who refuse to surrender 
are given a chance to speak out.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=g34Ty0nH8O8

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SUNDAY, MAY 15th – FSS Rm 4004

1:30PM – Born in Gaza, Palestine, 2014 (78 minutes).

This Spanish documentary, shot in 2014, examines the effects of the 
Israel-Palestine conflict on Palestinian children. In July 2014, images 
of an air strike on a Gaza beach which killed four soccer-playing 
youngsters went global, prompting Spanish director Hernan Zin to fly in 
and shoot a documentary about the plight of Palestine’s children. The 
result is Born in Gaza, an inevitably powerful and depressing record of 
man’s inhumanity to its own offspring whose primary virtue is in 
retelling a story which constantly needs to be retold.

https://vimeo.com/116471850

3PM – State of Siege, Uruguay/France, 1972 (121 minutes)
Costa-Gavras puts the United States’ involvement in Latin American 
politics under the microscope in this arresting thriller. An urban 
guerrilla group, outraged at the counterinsurgency and torture training 
clandestinely organized by the CIA in their country (unnamed in the 
film), abducts a U.S. official (Yves Montand) to bargain for the release 
of political prisoners; soon the kidnapping becomes a media sensation, 
leading to violence. Co-written by Franco Solinas, the electrifying 
State of Siege piercingly critiques the American government for 
supporting foreign dictatorships, while also asking difficult questions 
about the efficacy of radical violent acts to oppose such regimes.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rjv36b99JXk

5:10PM – Lucio, Spain/France, 2007 (93 minutes).

"The banks are the real crooks," says Lucio Urtubia decisively. "They 
exploit you, take your money and cause all the wars." Directed by Aitor 
Arregi and Jose Mari Goenaga, Lucio is an engaging portrait of the 
anarchist Lucio Urtubia, born in Northern Spain in 1931, and who 
deserted from the Spanish army during his military service, going on to 
work as a tiler in Paris, where he immersed himself in the world of the 
Spanish exiles. Rapidly inter-cut archive images, interview fragments 
and reconstructed impressions are used to look back on his incredible 
life. A meeting with the legendary Quico Sabaté (1915-1960) put Lucio on 
the anarchist path, whereby his talents as a forger of identity papers 
and currency came in particularly useful. His real anarchist nature is 
revealed in his highly particular, carelessly expressed visions of 
phenomena such as Franco, Che Guevara, Fidel Castro, the Black Panthers, 
May 1968 and the institution of marriage. Bringing the most powerful 
bank in the world to its knees, Lucio is a gripping story of how a 
working class brick layer can forge solidarity beyond sectarian lines 
for the liberation of peoples across the world.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tFWqqjckJP0

6:50PM – A Good Day to Die, Turtle Island, 2010 (90 minutes)

Dennis Banks co-founded the American Indian Movement (A.I.M.) in 1968 to 
call attention to the plight of urban Indians in Minneapolis, Minnesota. 
The film presents an intimate look at Dennis Banks' life beginning with 
his early experience in boarding schools, through his military service 
in Japan, his transformative experience in Stillwater State Prison and 
subsequent founding of a movement that, through confrontational actions 
in Washington DC, Custer South Dakota and Wounded Knee, changed the 
lives of American Indians forever.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3ijanExWgIg