Montana Peace & Justice Film Series, Spring, 2007

<BODY BACKGROUND="images/autumn_background.jpg"> <P>Note: This web site is designed to be viewed by a web browser that supports "Frames." If you see this message it means that your browser does not. Soon, this site will be updated so that those with older browsers that don't support frames may use it too. Until then, here is a simple listing of the films to be displayed in Barre Fall Film Series:</P> <h1 align="center"> <strong></strong><strong><br> Welcome to the Peace & Justice Film Series!</strong></h1> <p align="left" class="list-description">We will be showing documentary and historical films every Thursday from February 1st, through April 26th, 2007. The films examine many important questions of our time from a variety of perspectives.</p> <p align="left" class="list-description"><strong>Admission:</strong> By Donation</p> <p align="left" class="list-description"><strong>There will be a lively and respectful discussion after each film.</strong> Please come to learn what each film has to offer and to share your thoughts. We encourage participants with all points of view to attend: diversity of opinion leads to richer discussions and deeper understanding.</p> <p align="center"><span class="list-title"><img src="images/orangebar.gif" alt="Orange Bar" width="445" height="8"></span></p> <p align="center"><span class="list-title"><a href="frames/sugihara.html" target="Main_Frame">Sugihara:<br> Conspiracy of Kindness<br> </a></span><span class="list-year">(USA: 2000, 103 mins.)<br> </span><span class="list-date-time">Thursday February 1, 2007, 5:30pm and</span><span class="list-date-time"> 7:30pm</span><br> <span class="list-credits"> Written & Directed by Robert Kirk</span></p> <p class="list-description">Fall, 1939: Hitlers regime was sweeping through Eastern Europe. As Japanese consul to Lithuania, Chiune Sugihara saved thousands of lives of fleeing Jewish refugees. How? At great risk to himself he wrote them transit visas. </p> <p align="center"><span class="list-title"><img src="images/orangebar.gif" alt="Orange Bar" width="445" height="8"></span></p> <p align="center"><span class="list-title"><a href="frames/zinn.html" target="Main_Frame">Howard Zinn :<br> </a></span><span class="list-subtitle"><a href="frames/sugihara.html" target="Main_Frame">You Can't Be Neutral on a Moving Train</a></span><span class="list-title"><a href="frames/sugihara.html" target="Main_Frame"> <br> </a></span><span class="list-year">(USA: 2004, 78 mins.)<br> </span><span class="list-date-time">Thursday February 8, 2007, 5:30pm & </span><span class="list-date-time"> 7:30pm</span><br> <span class="list-credits">Directed by Deb Ellis & Denis Mueller, Narrated by Matt Damon </span></p> <p class="list-description">Documents the life and times of Howard Zinn, historian, activist and author of the classic <em>A People’s History of the United States</em>. Featuring archival materials and interviews, this film is “an excellent introduction to a man whose thoughts on war, peace and dissent have become increasingly influential in ever more confusing times” (Tvguide.com). As Noam Chomsky has said, “it is no exaggeration to say he has changed the consciousness of a generation.”</p> <p align="center"><span class="list-title"><img src="images/orangebar.gif" alt="Orange Bar" width="445" height="8"></span></p> <p align="center"><span class="list-subtitle"><a href="http://www.bigskyfilmfest.org/" target="_blank">Big Sky Documentary Film Festival</a></span><br> <span class="list-date-time">February 15 - 21, 2007 </span><br> <span class="list-description">We'll take a break this week because there are <br> too many other great films being shown around Missoula!</span></p> <p align="center"><span class="list-title"><img src="images/orangebar.gif" alt="Orange Bar" width="445" height="8"></span></p> <p align="center"><br> <span class="list-title"><a href="frames/ancient_futures.html" target="Main_Frame">Ancient Futures:</a><br> </span><span class="list-subtitle">Learning From Ladakh</span><span class="list-year"><br> (UK: 1993, 60 mins.)</span> <em>and</em><span class="list-title"> <br> <a href="frames/ancient_futures.html" target="Main_Frame">Paradise with Side Effects</a></span><br> <span class="list-year">(UK: 1999, 40 mins.)</span><br> <span class="list-date-time">Thursday February 22, 2007, 5:30pm and 7:30pm</span></p> <p align="center">Produced by The International Society for Ecology and Culture</p> <p class="list-description">Ladakh, a beautiful land high in the Western Himalayas, struggles to deal with “development.” <strong>Ancient Futures</strong> forces us to reexamine what we mean by “progress,”both in the developing world and at home. </p> <p class="list-description"><strong>Paradise with Side Effects</strong>, the sequel to Ancient Futures, is a documentary that follows two women from Ladakh as they visit England. We learn a lot about our own culture from their reactions to what they see.</p> <p><span class="list-title"><img src="images/orangebar.gif" alt="Orange Bar" width="445" height="8"></span></p> <p align="center"><span class="list-title"><a href="frames/doctor_du.html" target="Main_Frame">The Doctor, <br> the Depleted Uranium<br> and the Dying Children</a></span><br> <span class="list-year">(Germany: 2004, 70 mins. German with English Subtitles)</span><span class="list-date-time"><span class="list-year"><br> </span>Friday October 28, 2005, 7:30pm</span><br> </p> <p class="list-description">Since the mid-1990s the US Army has been using artillery shells tipped with Depleted Uranium. What are the human and environmental costs of such weapons? </p> <p class="list-description">(© 2004 by Telepool. Produced by Freider Wagner and Valentin Thurn, ÖKOMEDIA)</p> <p align="center"><span class="list-title"><img src="images/orangebar.gif" alt="Orange Bar" width="445" height="8"></span></p> <p align="center"><span class="list-title"><a href="frames/conviction.html" target="Main_Frame">Conviction</a></span><span class="list-title"><a href="frames/sugihara.html" target="Main_Frame"> <br> </a></span><span class="list-year">(USA: 2006, 48 mins.)<br> </span><span class="list-date-time">Thursday March 8, 2007, 5:30pm & </span><span class="list-date-time"> 7:30pm</span><br> <span class="list-credits">Directed by Brenda Tuelson Fox </span></p> <p class="list-description">A documentary about three Dominican nuns convicted and sentenced to Federal Prison for their non-violent protest at a Minuteman III missile site in Northern Colorado. This film evokes important conversations about the role of religion in politics, the role of nuclear weapons in national defense and the role of International Law in the Federal Courts.</p> <p align="center"><span class="list-title"><img src="images/orangebar.gif" alt="Orange Bar" width="445" height="8"></span></p> <p align="center"><span class="list-title"><a href="frames/zero.html" target="Main_Frame">Zero Degrees of Separation </a></span><span class="list-title"><a href="frames/sugihara.html" target="Main_Frame"> <br> </a></span><span class="list-year">(Canada: 2005, 89 mins.)<br> </span><span class="list-date-time">Thursday March 15, 2007, 5:30pm & </span><span class="list-date-time"> 7:30pm</span><br> <span class="list-credits">Written & Directed by Elle Flanders </span></p> <p class="list-description">A unique journey through the complex lives of Israeli and Palestinian gays and lesbians in inter-ethnic relationships. Living on the margins of society, these couples defy the odds, existing in the midst of conflict with a gentle humanity and mutual respect.  Interwoven into these stories is director Elle Flanders’ own rich narrative of growing up with Zionist grandparents intimately involved in the founding of the state of Israel.</p> <p align="center"><span class="list-title"><img src="images/orangebar.gif" alt="Orange Bar" width="445" height="8"></span></p> <p align="center"><span class="list-title"><a href="frames/liberty.html" target="Main_Frame">Liberty Bound </a></span><span class="list-title"><a href="frames/sugihara.html" target="Main_Frame"> <br> </a></span><span class="list-year">(USA: 2004, 90 mins.)<br> </span><span class="list-date-time">Thursday March 22, 2007, 5:30pm & </span><span class="list-date-time"> 7:30pm</span><br> <span class="list-credits">Written & Directed by Christine Rose </span></p> <p class="list-description">An entertaining look at America’s ongoing struggle to keep a comfortable balance between democracy, capitalism, and fascism. This is a film about historic events that shape history. It is a film about courage and fear; ignorance and knowledge; propaganda and rhetoric. </p> <p align="center"><span class="list-title"><img src="images/orangebar.gif" alt="Orange Bar" width="445" height="8"></span></p> <p align="center"><span class="list-subtitle">University of Montana Spring Break!</span><br> <span class="list-description">No Film This Week.</span></p> <p class="list-title"><img src="images/orangebar.gif" alt="Orange Bar" width="445" height="8"></p> <p align="center"><span class="list-title"><a href="frames/life_and_debt.html" target="Main_Frame">Life and Debt</a></span> <br> <span class="list-year">(USA: 2001, 80 mins.)<br> </span><span class="list-date-time">Thursday April 5, 2007, 5:30pm and </span><span class="list-date-time"> 7:30pm</span><br> <span class="list-credits">Directed by Stefanie Black, Narrated by Belinda Becker</span></p> <p class="list-description">How the IMF, the World Bank and globalization affected Jamaica’s economy. A Documentary look at the effects on Jamaican industry and agriculture. A riveting and accessible description of the effects of the global economy on a third world country. </p> <p align="center"><span class="list-title"><img src="images/orangebar.gif" alt="Orange Bar" width="445" height="8"></span></p> <p align="center"><span class="list-title"><a href="frames/sir.html" target="Main_Frame">Sir! No Sir! </a></span><span class="list-title"><a href="frames/sugihara.html" target="Main_Frame"> <br> </a></span><span class="list-year">(USA: 2005, 85 mins.)<br> </span><span class="list-date-time">Thursday March 22, 2007, 5:30pm & </span><span class="list-date-time"> 7:30pm</span><br> <span class="credits">Written & Directed by David Zeiger </span><span class="credits"></span></p> <p class="list-description">The Vietnam War has been the subject of hundreds of films, both fiction and non-fiction, but <em>this </em>story–the story of the rebellion of thousands of American soldiers against the war–has <em>never</em> been told in film. Sir, No Sir is the story of one of the most vibrant and widespread upheavals of the 1960’s–one that had profound impact on American society, yet has been virtually obliterated from the collective memory of that time.</p> <p align="center"><span class="list-title"><img src="images/orangebar.gif" alt="Orange Bar" width="445" height="8"></span></p> <p align="center"><span class="list-title"><a href="frames/central_asia.html"><a href="frames/central_asia.html">Conference</a> on Central Asia <br> </a></span><span class="list-date-time">Thursday April 19, 2007, 5:30pm & </span><span class="list-date-time"> 7:30pm</span><br> <span class="credits">Sponsored In Conjunction With The Office of International Programs </span><span class="credits"></span></p> <p class="list-description">Central Asia, with its westward extension into Southwest Asia, is a vast region rich in history, natural resources, and geopolitical importance. The birthplace of many of the ancient world’s religions and empires, it was the home to remarkable centers of learning, and the arena of devastating conflicts.</p> <p align="center"><span class="list-title"><img src="images/orangebar.gif" alt="Orange Bar" width="445" height="8"></span></p> <p align="center"><span class="list-title"><a href="frames/ground_truth.html" target="Main_Frame">The Ground Truth<br> </a></span><span class="list-subtitle"><a href="frames/ground_truth.html" target="Main_Frame">After the Killing Ends</a></span> <span class="list-title"><a href="frames/sugihara.html" target="Main_Frame"> <br> </a></span><span class="list-year">(USA: 2006, 72 mins.)<br> </span><span class="list-date-time">Thursday April 26, 2007, 5:30pm & </span><span class="list-date-time"> 7:30pm</span><br> <span class="list-credits">Directed and Narrated by Patricia Foulkrod</span></p> <p class="list-description">We follow the lives of men and women who heeded the call for military service in Iraq as they experience recruitment and training, combat, homecoming, and the struggle to reintegrate with families and communities. As their struggles unfold, each soldier becomes a new kind of hero, bearing witness and giving support to other veterans, and learning to fearlessly wield the most powerful weapon of all — the truth.</p> <p align="center"><span class="list-title"><img src="images/orangebar.gif" alt="Orange Bar" width="445" height="8"></span></p> <p><strong>Contact Us! We Want to Know What You Want to See</strong></p> <p>To be on our mailing list, please send your e-mail address:  <a href="mailto:info@barrefilmseries.org">Info@PeaceAndJusticeFilms.org</a></p> <p>To send requests for next season's films, please mail us at  <a href="mailto:info@barrefilmseries.org">Info@PeaceAndJusticeFilms.org</a></p> <p></p> <p align="center"> </p> </BODY>