[tadamon-l] Montreal: Anti-colonial films - under the stars! Sunday June 29th.

[Tadamon!]

* Tadamon! Montreal presents.
Anti-colonial films - under the stars!

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SUNDAY, JUNE 29th, 9pm, 2008
in the lot beside l'Insoumise
2035 St-Laurent
(between Ontario and Sherbrooke)
metro St-Laurent
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http://tadamon.resist.ca/index.php/post/1559

Join us for a double-bill of fabulous documentary films under the moon in 
downtown Montreal. Tadamon! will be presenting two excellent films reflecting 
on struggles against land theft and colonization in Palestine and Turtle 
Island. The films are being presented as part of the mobilization for the 
demonstration '400 years of colonialism and militarism: nothing to celebrate!' 
in Quebec City on July 3rd.

this event is free, but a donation of $5 is encouraged.
please bring your own blanket or lawn chair to sit on.

---> featuring the screenings of:

* Kanehsatake: 270 Years of Resistance
Directed by Alanis Obomsawin. 119 minutes.

On a hot July day in 1990, an historic confrontation propelled Native issues in 
Kanehsatake and the village of Oka, Québec, into the international spotlight 
and into the Canadian conscience. Director Alanis Obomsawin endured 78 
nerve-wracking days and nights filming the armed stand-off between the Mohawks, 
the Québec police and the Canadian army. A powerful feature-documentary emerges 
that takes you right into the action of an age-old aboriginal struggle. The 
result is a portrait of the people behind the barricades, providing insight 
into the Mohawks. unyielding determination to protect their land.

(English with subtitles in French)

---> view a trailer for this film:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LtPNqLtR4BI

* Bil'in My Love - Bil'in Habiti
Directed by Shai Carmeli Pollak. 84 minutes

A Palestinian village peacefully stands up to an opposing force when they're 
forced with being split in two by a demarcation wall in this inspiring 
documentary. Filmmaker Shai Carmeli Pollak started as an activist when he came 
to the village, but ended up chronicling an amazing moment in time when the 
Israelis and Palestinians came together to halt the wall.s construction amidst 
the region.s political turmoil. Focusing on one of the village.s local 
committee members and a farmer who risks losing much of his land to the 
proposed barrier, the film takes a look at how these leaders in the movement 
are able to communicate and eventually work with a group of Israeli activists 
that heads the opposing faction.

(Arabic and Hebrew, with subtitles in English)

---> view a trailer for this film:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WynTOY04Ac8

for more information:

Tadamon! Montreal
514 664 1036
http://tadamon.resist.ca
tadamon at resist.ca

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