[IPSM] (Final line-up) The Montreal Anarchist Film Festival...Under the Moon!

[aaron at resist.ca]

The Montreal Anarchist Film Festival....Under the Moon!

Thursday, May 24th
9pm, 2035 St-Laurent (metro St-Laurent)
Free!

(Rain date: May 31st, same time and place)

Join us for a lovely outdoor film screening as part of Montreal’s  
Festival of Anarchy. Bring a blanket, a sweater, your friends, and come  
learn about anarchist, anti-authoritarian struggles for freedom in
Montreal and abroad!

For more information, visit www.myspace.com/filmsanarchistesmtl

Featuring (in order of appearance):

"La Rage Vivante... Panic a la Manic" by Maude Prud'homme and
Julien Boisvert
10 minutes (fr)

Les coupes forestières sont rendues au nord du Nord, dans le
réservoir de la Manicouagan, sur l'ile René-Levasseur.  L'oeil du Québec a
cependant inspiré une résistance fertile...

"Raise the Rates" by Neil Cavalier and Liisa Schofield
25 mins (en with subtitles in fr)

Following the Ontario Coalition Against Poverty's (OCAP) campaign   to
raise social assistance rates in Ontario in 2005-2006, this documentary  
features first-hand accounts of 5 women involved in the campaign as well
as   footage from special diet clinics, demonstrations, and occupations.
>From   powerful voices of people directly affected by the welfare system
comes a   demand to raise the rates, and a determination to fight back.

---"Roads Through Palestine" by Brett Story, with musical piano score by
Stefan Christoff.

A cinematic journey through the roads of occupation and resistance in the
West Bank of Palestine.

---"Deportation Canada" by Apatrides Anonymes
5 minutes (en/fr)

Every year, approximately 10,000 people are removed from Canada   towards
countries where their physical well-being is threatened. If you find
yourself on a flight with one such person, you can help stop a
deportation. A video by the Apartrides Anonymes.

---"Surfing the Waste" by Tomoe
20 minutes (en)

Shot on 16mm film, this documentary from filmmakers Sandra Lombardi, Paul
Aflalo and Tomoe Yoshihara features a band of garbage eaters prowling the
snowy streets of Montreal. Starring Allison Trumble, Alden Penner, Mike
Kirk, Liz Whittaker and Owain Lawson, these dumpster divers sing the
praises of all manner of recycling as we see them find a multitude of
culled food and all manner of useful items. Musicians Nick Boshart and
ex-Unicorn Alden Penner composed the score which ranges from the woes felt
by a discarded toaster, to a full-on hand clapping, booty shakin'
garbage-oriented epics complete with choreography by Alli Blakley.  As the
subjects bike around the city they tell us about methods they have
discovered to survive and thrive off of our society's excess. Surfing the
Waste is an all singing, all dancing musical documentary about making
environmental sustainability fun and cost effective and you can't beat a
solution like that.

---"Why I Love Shoplifting from Big Corporations" by Franklin Lopez 5
minutes (en)

Gender-Bending fun inside a big box mega-retailer. Stealing has never been
so much fun! This is subMedia’s second video interpretation of
CrimethInc’s writings.

---"Silent Movie" by Freda Guttman
10 minutes

A family drama acted out in full bloom patriarchy.

---"L'Empire de la Palme" by Projet Accompagnement Solidarite Colombie 20
minutes (sp with subtitles in fr)

"L’empire de la palme : Crimes d’État et résistance civile en Colombie"
présente la lutte des communautés paysannes du Jiguamiandó et du Curvaradó
(Chocó) qui résistent au projet agroindustriel de palme africaine implanté
illégalement sur leur Territoire collectif. À travers plusieurs entrevues,
les communautés afrodescendantes nous montrent clairement la
responsabilité de l'État colombien –et de sa structure paramilitaire– dans
 l'appropriation illégale de leurs terres. Le film fait ressortir toute la
destruction environnementale et sociale qui se cache derrière ce projet
agro-industriel comme exemple concret du développement capitaliste qui
s'implante à feu et à sang.

---"Borderless" by Min Sook Lee
25 minutes (en with subtitles in fr)

"Borderless" gives voice to the struggles and dreams of undocumented
workers in Canada. Geraldo, a Costa Rican construction worker, and Angela,
a second-generation Caribbean domestic worker, struggle
against labour exploitation. Narration by poet Dionne Brand.