[IPSM] QPIRG's Annual Film Festival- February and March

[Nyssa McLeod]

*QPIRG MCGILL'S ANNUAL WORKING GROUP FILM FESTIVAL*


*All screenings held at the Cultural Studies Screening room at 3475 Peel
Street.*
*For more information contact: 514-398-7432 or
**qpirg at ssmu.mcgill.ca*<qpirg at ssmu.mcgill.ca>


*Thursday Feb 1st, 6:30-8:30pm, Sponsored by Greening McGill*
*Oil On Ice* is a documentary connecting the fate of the Arctic National
Wildlife Refuge to decisions America makes about energy policy,
transportation choices, and other seemingly unrelated matters.
*In The Quiet and Still Air of Delightful Studies: A Study of Recycling At
McGill University* is a short documentary that explores the innerworkings of
recycling at McGill University and the reasons for its successes and
limitations.


*Tuesday Feb 6th, 8-10pm, Sponsored by Q-Team*
Transgender women are incarcerated in men's prisons across the U.S., are
denied medical and psychological treatment, and at times are victims of rape
and violence. The documentary *Cruel and Unusual* tells these women's
stories.


*Thursday Feb 8th, 6:30-8:30pm, Sponsored by Students Taking Action in
Chiapas*
*Plan Puebla Panama: La Conquista Sigue *is a documentary on the latest
neoliberal "development program," the Plan Puebla Panama, for Latin America.
The PPP is aimed at increasing the profits of transnational corporations, by
using military force to steal land, polluting the environment, putting
workers in sweatshop conditions, and privatizing biological resources.
Spanish, with English subtitles.
*Victoria de Todos Los Santos*, a short montage of footage from Oaxaca City,
Mexico, portraying the November 2 2006 popular reclamation of the local
university from federal police forces. Film produced by a Oaxacan Video
Collective.


*Tuesday Feb 13th, 8-10pm, Sponsored by Tadamon!*

*In the Shadows of the City*. Jean Chamoun's film revisits the decade and a
half of civil war in Lebanon which ended in 1990. Chamoun brings us into the
complexities of Lebanon's civil war, through the lives of Rami, a
twelve-year-old boy on the cusp of adulthood, and his family. This film
explores the political and social complexities of the 15 year civil war,
while addressing the consequences of war on Lebanon's youth. Arabic /
English subtitles.
*Thursday Feb 15th, 6.30-8.30pm, Sponsored by Campus Climate Challenge*
*The End of Suburbia* explores the American Way of Life and its prospects as
the planet approaches a critical era, as global demand for fossil fuels
begins to outstrip supply.


*Tuesday Feb 27th, 8-10pm, Sponsored by Research for Social Change*
*Kitchen Stories* is about one scientist's job of observing  an old
cantakerous single man's kitchen habits and how this is complicated by their
growing friendship.  This dramatic comedy points to the absurdity of some
established research methods and assumptions about objectivity.


*Thursday March 1st, 6.30-8.30pm, Sponsored by Childcare Network*
*Free to Learn* invites you to reconsider your long held assumptions about
how and why children learn. This documentary is a powerful tool for bringing
together like-minded families, teachers, community workers, and activists to
create their own network of culture and support.


*Tuesday March 6th, 8-10pm, Sponsored by McGill Global Aids Coalition*
*Night Stop*. Shot mostly at night in central Mozambique, the Corridor of
Death, a long-distance trucking route, where more than 30% of the population
are HIV+, the film charts a series of interwoven stories about the lives of
women who wait for the arrival of truck drivers at an overnight trucking
station.


*Thursday March 8th, 6.30-8.30pm, Sponsored by the International Solidarity
Movement *
*500 Dunam on the Moon*. A critical look at the art of dispossession and the
creativity of the dispossessed, the film tells the story of Ayn Hawd, a
Palestinian village that was captured and depopulated by Israeli forces in
1948. In 1953 Marcel Janco, a Romanian painter and a founder of the Dada
movement, helped transform the village into a Jewish artists' colony, and
renamed it Ein Hod. This documentary tells the story of the village's
original inhabitants, who, after expulsion, settled only 1.5 kilometers away
in the outlying hills.


*All screenings held at the Cultural Studies Screening room at 3475 Peel
Street.*
*For more information contact: 514-398-7432 or
**qpirg at ssmu.mcgill.ca*<qpirg at ssmu.mcgill.ca>
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 Quebec Public Interest Research Group at McGill University
3647 University, 3rd Floor
Montreal, Quebec, H3Z 2P8
Tel. 514-398-7432
Fax. 514-398-8976
http://ssmu.mcgill.ca/qpirg
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