[IPSM] (13 may, montreal) LDS Film Festival

[decolonization at riseup.net]

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    xLand, Decolonisation and Self-Determination x
    x             Film Festival                  x
    x   Friday may 13th 2005, 11:30am-6:15pm     x
    x            UQAM university                 x
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    x    Pavillon Hubert Aquin, room A M050      x
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11:30 am Power: One River Two Nations, 1996, (77min)

When Hydro-Québec announced its intention to proceed with the enormous
James Bay II hydroelectric project, the 15,000 Cree who live in the region
decided to stand up to the giant utility. Power is the compelling,
behind-the-scenes story of the Cree's five-year battle to save the Great
Whale River, their land, rights, and their traditional way of life.
>From the early days of the James Bay Agreement to the 1995 Quebec
referendum on independance, Power chronicles an historic period in the
Cree drive to self-determination. In uniting to stop a hydro project, the
Cree of Northern Quebec discover their own power as a nation.

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1:00 pm Rocks at Whiskey Trench, 2000, (106min)

On August 28, 1990, a convoy of 75 cars left the Mohawk community of
Kahnawake and crossed Montreal's Mercier Bridge--straight into an angry
mob that pelted the vehicles with rocks. The targets of this violence were
Mohawk women, children and elders leaving Kahnawake, in fear of a possible
advance by the Canadian army. In Rocks at Whiskey Trench, Mohawks remember
the terror as windows shattered around them. Police had orders not
to arrest anyone--and though they stood by during the rock-throwing, they
were able to prevent the mob from reaching the cars and attacking their
occupants. This video is the fourth in Alanis Obomsawin's landmark series
on the Mohawk rebellions that shook Canada in 1990. A painstakingly
researched social document, the film looks back at the events surrounding
the August 28 attack, and delves into the history of Kahnawake and the
consequences of the appropriation of land that have shrunk its territory
by more than two-thirds over the last 300 years. Time and healing circles
have helped close the wounds, but it will take much longer for Kahnawake
residents to forgive and forget.

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3:00 pm The Business of Fancy Dancing, 2002, (104min)

This film explores the disintegrating relationship of 2 best friends who
have chosen different paths. Seymour and Aristotle graduated from high
school as co-valedictorians and left the Spokane Indian Reservation for
college. While Seymour became a world-famous gay Native American poet
(revered by whites, ridiculed by Indians), Aristotle dropped out of
college to return to the rez. They haven’t spoken for six years when
Seymour is called home for the funeral of a mutual friend. Seymour, is met
with resentment on “the rez”. At the wake, tensions are heightened, and
Aristotle’s long festering bitterness is dangerously exposed. Written,
directed and featuring poetic works by Sherman Alexie, “The Business of
FancyDancing” is a powerful story of growth, death, and the choices that
define us all.

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5:00 pm Self Respect, Self Defense & Self Determination (72min)

Mabel Williams, with her late husband Robert F Williams (author of Negroes
With Guns), met with Malcolm X, Ho Chi Minh, Che Guevara and Mao Tse Tung
to help internationalize support for the Black Liberation Movement.
Kathleen Cleaver was Communications Secretary and the first woman Central
Committee member of the Black Panther Party, also lived in exile,
gathering worldwide support for the BPP. These two inspiring women of the
60s Black liberation struggle share their personal experiences - resisting
the KKK and police repression, forced exile and their international
experiences in Third World nations - And how their history relates to the
struggle today. Moderated by Rachel Herzing of Critical Resistance, and
introduced by Angela Davis

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