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25 Basque men and women bravely express their condition as victims of the situation in the Basque Country, the nationalist power, the lack of freedom, insolidarity, the equidistance, the fear.

Keys to understand the cruel reality of what has been going on for more than 30 years in the Basque Country. The silent voices of the citizens and victims of ETA are the only protagonists of this work.

Directed by Iñaki Arteta. English subtitles.
Best Director of Documentary- New York International Independent Film and Video Festival.

ETA has annouced a ceasefire from March 24th 2006.

Experimental video artist Michelle Dizon comes to San Francisco Cinematheque from Los Angeles for her first solo screening.  Working with home movies shot in California and the Philippines, low-end video, numerous found images from the web and other films, and carefully culled and original texts, Dizon articulates a compelling political and aesthetic vision that constantly questions the status quo of language, images, and the power embedded in them.   In our current context of globalization and war, pieces such as Calibrate; Département des Arts de l’Islam; We, the Undersigned, Girls of Hiroshima; and her newest piece, The Great Wall compel us to re-think representational and political practices. We will also screen earlier, more intimate, works including My Child, Anak and A Family Sick.

Admission

$5 Cinematheque members, students, seniors, disabled;

$8 general

In May/June 2004, Walkley-award winning investigative reporter Carmela Baranowska was embedded with U.S. Marines in one of the most dangerous and remote parts of Afghanistan, beyond the reach of UN and aid agencies.

Frustrated by the limitations imposed on what she could report, Baranowska decided to travel back to Oruzgon Province independently of the U.S. Marines and Afghan militia that she had journeyed with up to that point. Western media outlets reported her kidnapping by the Taliban; a ‘fact’ the documentary dispels. (The source of reports of an abandoned vehicle and Taliban abduction of a western woman has never been uncovered.)

More importantly, Baranowska’s footage offers disturbing first-person accounts of the treatment being dealt Afghans by U.S. marines in the war on terror and has led to the opening of two U.S. military investigations.Carmela Baranowska, 45 mins, Australia, 2004

With a report and discussion on the history of U.S. involvement in Afghanistan and the continuing occupation.

Info: http://www.actionsf.org/#local6