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Film Series
The Killing Fields
The winner of three Academy Awards, "The Killing Fields"
is a riveting story of Cambodia's brutal Khmer Rouge Regime, told
from the perspective of an American journalist. The film details his
struggle to extricate himself from a country in crisis, and his
reluctance to leave a Cambodian journalist and friend behind. Once out of
the country, he devotes his energy to finding his friend, whose life is at
stake because of his profession. Based on a true story.
Ulysses' Gaze
Theo Angelopoulos' film starring Harvey Keitel is
the story of a filmmaker who returns to his homeland from a self-imposed
exile in America. The problems in his village force him to set off
in search of the truth of a historical dispute, contained on three
cans of film deep in the war-torn former Yugoslavia.
Lone Star
John Sayles' portrayal of cultural collision in the American
Southwest was nominated for "Best Original Screenplay" in 1996.
The film follows Latinos struggling to change the history curriculum to
reflect Anglo imperialism and destroy the myth of a noble "Manifest
Destiny". At the same time, the town sheriff is trying to solve the
mystery of a murder that happened thirty years ago.
The Suitors
A film portraying Iranians living in New York, "The Suitors" examines cultural differences, fears and prejudices. Iranians are engaged in their traditional wedding rituals when a SWAT team descends on them, called in by neighbors fearful of these
"terrorists".
Safe Havens and Chronicle of a Genocide Foretold
These two films examine the ethnic conflicts in
Bosnia and Rwanda, asking hard questions as to the origins of these bloody
conflicts and examining the lack of action in preventing such human
tragedies.
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