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CID Film Series (2000-2003)
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Past Events and Conferences
In conjunction with the Carr Center for Human Rights Policy, CID hosted a number of film screenings on international development and human rights issues. The film series provided a forum for learning about topics in international development through fictional characters and documentary films. Admission was free of charge and open to the entire Harvard community. Films were introduced and discussed by speakers with expertise in the topic.
Academic Year 2002-2003 Schedule
| Sept 23 |
First They Killed My Father: A documentary film based on Loung Ung's memoir of her ordeal during the brutal Pol Pot regime in Cambodia when an estimated two million people were murdered. This vivid film also looks at Loung's remarkable personal rebuilding of her life in the US as well as her continued link to contemporary Cambodia. SPEAKERS: Loung Ung: author of First They Killed My Father and the VVAF National Spokesman for the Campaign for a Landmine-Free World. Her book was reviewed to wide acclaim for bearing witness to the slaughter that occurred during the Kmer Rouge regime. Kayoko Mitsumatsu: producer of documentaries for Japanese Television including First They Killed My Father. Bob Nesson: Independent producer/camerman who filmed First They Killed My Father. |
| Oct 10 | Life and Debt: Produced and directed in 2001 by Stephanie Black and narrated by Jamaica Kinkaid who laments the disappearance of the Jamaica she knew as a child. Desperate for investment dollars, Michael Manley, Prime Minister of Jamaica, turned to the International Monetary Fund, in particular its Deputy Director, Stanley Fisher. In this controversial but widely shown film, Manley argues that intervention by the IMF has helped destroy Jamaican industry and agriculture and furthered the end of Jamaica as a self-sufficient economic entity. Stanley Fisher provides counterpoint to these arguments. running time:86 minutes. |
| Oct 24 | The Pinochet Case: -directed by Patricio Guzman. Augusto Pinochet was the first dictator to be humbled by the international justice system since the Nuremberg Trials. In September 1998, Pinochet flew to London where he was arrested by the London police. This film explores how a small group of people in Madrid laid the groundwork for his arrest, using victim testimonies to bolster their case. "Both a legalistic thriller and a searing documentary" - the Guardian Best Picture - 2002 San Fransico International Film festival SPEAKER; SARAH SEWALL - Carr Center affiliate: "The International Criminal Court" |
| Nov 7 | "Armed and Innocent" Narrated by Robert DeNiro and directed by Kati Marton, "Armed and Innocent" vividly documents the tragic plight of children forced to fight in conflicts on every continent. SPEAKER: KATI MARTON Journalist, Author and Human Rights Advocate, and former Chief of Outreach for the Secretary General of the United Nations |
| Nov 12 | "Wedding in Ramallah" SPEAKER: SHERINE SALAMA, DIRECTOR "I was hoping to make a film that told the story of a wedding, a story that reflected the richness of Palestinian traditions. I wanted to concentrate on the personal, to reveal politics where it is least expected - in the heart of relationships and family life… I had no idea I would be filming the last summer of peace in the Palestinian territories..." Sherine Salama "Wedding in Ramallah", the winner of various awards including the Canadian National Film Board Best Documentary Award, the Australian Film Critics Best Documentary Award, and the Chicago International Film Festival Award, explores the challenges of marriage through the eyes of Palestinian women. |
| Nov 25 | "Afghanistan Year 1380" This
film vividly documents Dr. Gino Strada and the work of Emergency, a
non-profit humanitarian organization dedicated to providing assistance to
civilian victims of war. The film records the work of this dedicated team
of doctors as they return to war-torn Afghanistan a week after 9/11.
Featured at the 2002 International Human Rights Film Festival. SPEAKERS: DR. GINO STRADA, surgeon, specialist in war surgery and founder of Emergency. GINA COPLON-NEWFIELD, Coordinator of US Campaign to Ban Landmines DR. JENNIFER LEANING, board member of Physicians for Human Rights, Director of Humanitarian Crises and Human Rights and Professor of International Health at the Harvard School of Public Health |
Academic Year 2000-2001 Schedule
| Sept 25 | CID Film Series: Before Night Falls Julian Schnabel directs this moving drama about the life of a Cuban poet and novelist, Reinaldo Arenas, 1943-1990. Imprisoned due to his writing and gay life style, he leaves Cuba for NY in the Mariel boat-lift. |
| Oct 16 | CID Film Series: Behind Closed Eyes A documentary that explores how four children of war learn to survive and build a future despite their past. |
| October 23 | CID Film Series: Cabaret
Balkans -a 1998 release by director Goran Paskaljevic showing the
craziness of war in Bosnia when 20 people 's paths cross one night in rage
in the mid 1990's. Speakers include actress Maryanna Jokovich with possibly the filmmaker or Elizabeth Rubin or David Rhodes |
| Nov 14 | CID Film Series: Lumumba At the Berlin Conference of 1885, Europe divided up the African continent. The Congo became the personal property of King Leopold II of Belgium. On June 30, 1960, a young self-taught nationalist, Patrice Lumumba, became, at age 36, the first head of government of the new independent state. He would last two months in office." |
| Nov 27 | CID Film Series:
Trial in Prague This documentary film tells the story of the trial of 14 communists in 1952, who confessed and were convicted of treason although innocent. Directed by Zuzana Justman |
| November 30 | CID Film Series: East
is East - feature by director Damien O'Donnel . A Pakistani family
caught between religious adherence and assimilation. Speakers: student panel |
| December 14 | CID Film Series: Well
Founded Fear - Filmmakers Michael Camerini and Shari Robertson
enter the closed corridors of Immigration and Naturalization Services to
reveal the dramatic real-life stage where human rights and American ideals
collide with the nearly impossible task of trying to know the truth. Speaker: Deborah Anker, Director, Harvard Law School Immigration & Refugee Clinic. |
| January 30 | CID Film Series: Silence
Broken: Korean Comfort Women Silence Broken shatters a half-century of silence for Korean women forced into sexual servitude by the Japanese Imperial Army during World War II. Special Guest: Director/Producer/Writer Dai Sil Kim-Gibson |
| February 1 | CID Film Series:
100
DAYS CID, WAPPP and the Carr Center proudly present a sneak preview with comments by Director Nick Hughes This feature film drama, was shot in Rwanda with actors who experienced the genocide and a Director who witnessed the genocide first hand. The script is based on real events and gives an intimate glimpse into the anguish of the individuals who experienced the genocide. It is a grim, compulsive tale of horror. Co-sponsored by Carr Center for Human Rights Policy and Women and Public Policy Program |
| February 21 | CID Film Series: East/West
A dazzling and highly acclaimed film made in 1999 by Regis Wargnier. Oscar nominee for Best Foreign Film 2000. The writer is Sergei Bodrov (Prisoner of the Mountain) It's the end of World War II and Soviet Premier Joseph Stalin has
extended the hand of friendship to his emigre countrymen scattered around
the world. Come home, brothers and sisters, he says. help build the
motherland, all is forgiven. While thousands of homesick fools did accept
the invitation to return , most of them were summarily imprisoned or
murdered upon their arrival by a despot too paranoid to trust his own
people. East/West is the fictional story of Alex Golovin who naively
gathers up his pretty French wife and young son to return to the land of
his birth, only to discover a living hell.
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| April 3 | CID Film Series:
Sixteen
Decisions: A Poor Woman's Social Charter |
| May 1 | CID Film Series: Borders Borders was made in 1999 and focuses on the 1171 km of land borders that Israel shares with Lebanon, Jordan, Syria, Egypt and more recently, the Palestinian Authority in Gaza and the West Bank. The film's lively footage shows Arabs, Jews and Druze struggling to live normal lives despite the chaos caused by border restrictions and military activity. Julian Beinhart will introduce the film. He is the director of the Joint Program in City Design and development at MIT. He has worked on border cities including the Mexican/American border and recently gave a lecture series on the form of divided cities at the Hebrew and the Al Quds Universities in Jerusalem. |
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