Calendar of Events - Spring 2007
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Wednesday, Feb. 14 - Quilombo Country
Leonard Abrams
2005, Brazil
7:00 PM, Uris Auditorium
2005, Brazil
7:00 PM, Uris Auditorium
Provides a portrait of rural communities in Brazil that were either founded by runaway slaves or began from abandoned plantations. This type of community is known as a "Quilombo", from an Angolan word that means "encampment." As many as 2,000 quilombos exist today.
Wednesday, Feb. 21 - Viva Zapata
Elia Kazan
2001, United States
7:00 PM, Uris Auditorium
2001, United States
7:00 PM, Uris Auditorium
Emiliano Zapata, an ally of Pancho Villa, leads the Mexican peasants in a bloody revolt against an oppressive government and overthrows Porfirio Díaz.
Wednesday, Feb. 28 - FALN
Peter Gessner and Robert Kramer
1965, United States
7:00 PM, Uris Auditorium
1965, United States
7:00 PM, Uris Auditorium
A critical examination of the reasons for the guerrilla struggle of the Armed Forces of National Liberation in Venezuela, beginning with the 1958 overthrow of dictator Pérez Jiménez, and the flawed attempts at social reform by Romula Betancourt's government, to the 1962 emergence of the national liberation movement, the FALN.
Wednesday, Mar. 7 - Our brand is crisis
Rachel Boynton
2005, United States
7:00 PM, Uris Auditorium
2005, United States
7:00 PM, Uris Auditorium
Follows James Carville, Jeremy Rosner and a team of political consultants as they launch a media-savvy campaign for Bolivian presidential candidate Gonzalo Sánchez de Lozada. Witness a shocking example of America 'spreading democracy' overseas and its earth-shattering aftermath.
Wednesday, Mar. 14 - Chile, obstinate memory
Patricio Guzmán
1997, Canada
7:00 PM, Uris Auditorium
1997, Canada
7:00 PM, Uris Auditorium
Patricio Guzmán, former bodyguard of Salvador Allende and creator of the documentary film of the 1973 Chilean coup, The battle of Chile, returns to his homeland and shows his film to a group of students who have grown up with no knowledge of the event.
Wednesday, Mar. 28 - Una casa con vista al mar
Alberto Arvelo Mendoza
2001, Venezuela
7:00 PM, Uris G08
2001, Venezuela
7:00 PM, Uris G08
In the foothills of the Andes, the dreams of a widowed father and his son shelter their quiet relationship from the cruelty of neighbors, until a desperate act of violence tears them apart. It takes the brave intervention of a stranger to reunite them once again in the place of their dreams.
Saturday, Mar. 31 - La Cosecha/The Harvest
1:30 PM, Willard Straight Hall Memorial Room
JUSTICE FOR FARMWORKERS:
Celebrate César Chávez's birthday!
"La Cosecha/The Harvest" Mask and Puppet Theater:
This performance by Arm-of-the Sea theater presents the story of a migrant farmworker sold into debt peonage in the U.S., and how he is able to re-assert his humanity. The drama, presented in Spanish and English, features dozens of mask and puppet characters along with live music. Learn about and join in efforts to support farmworker rights after the show.
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Monday, Apr. 2 - Roy Bourgeois
The Struggle for Hope in Latin America
7:00 PM, McGraw Hall 165
7:00 PM, McGraw Hall 165
HUMAN RIGHTS IN LATIN AMERICA
Father Roy Bourgeois, founder of School of the Americas Watch, presents "The Struggle for Hope in Latin America". The U.S. Army School of the Americas (SOA) has used U.S. taxpayers' money to fund training for Latin American military officers in repressive techniques for the past 50 years. Many SOA graduates have been linked to political assassinations, massacres, disappearances, and other human rights violations, including the murder of Archbishop Oscar Romero. Father Bourgeois was instrumental in starting the movement to demand that the SOA be closed down.
View coverage in the Sun
Wednesday, Apr. 4 - Men with Guns
John Sayles
1997, United States
7:00 PM, Uris G08
1997, United States
7:00 PM, Uris G08
Dr. Fuentes is a man in search of his legacy--seven medical students he trained to work in impoverished native villages. But early in his odyssey he begins to suspect that "men with guns" got there first, and with every step he is confronted by bloody realities he had long ignored. Now, his is an almost desperate quest, but for a mythical village deep in the rainforest--one last refuge of hope called Cerca del Cielo.
Wednesday, Apr. 11 - Amores perros
Alejandro González Iñárritu
2000, Mexico
7:00 PM, Uris Auditorium
2000, Mexico
7:00 PM, Uris Auditorium
Three different people are catapulted into dramatic and unforeseen circumstances in the wake of a terrible car crash: a young punk stumbles into the sinister underground world of dog fighting; an injured supermodel's designer pooch disappears into the apartment's floorboards; and an ex-radical turned hit man rescues a Rotweiler with a gunshot wound.
Wednesday, Apr. 25 - Visa U.S.A.
Lisandro Duque Naranjo
1986, Colombia
7:00 PM, Uris Auditorium
1986, Colombia
7:00 PM, Uris Auditorium
Adolfo, a chicken farmer's son, dreams of leaving the small town of Sevilla to seek fame as a radio announcer in the United States. To raise funds for his journey he tutors Patricia, the daughter of the local bank manager. The lessons lead them into a relationship that her parents are determined to block. Eventually Adolfo obtains his visa and begins an adventure of false starts.
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