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In Rwanda We Say…
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An astonishing testament to the liberating power of speech. In Rwanda we say… is an important examination of whether, and how, people can overcome fear, hatred and deep emotional scars after genocide, to forge a common future. Over the past several years filmmaker Anne Aghion has traveled to rural Rwanda, to chart the progress of the ethic reconciliation programs there. This film continues her quest to learn how the human spirit survives a trauma like the 1994 genocide of the Tutsi minority, which claimed 800,000 lives in 100 days. Aghion’s 2002 film Gacaca, Living Together Again in Rwanda? (Distributed by First Run/Icarus Films) captured the testimonies of survivors and killers in a remote community as the government was preparing a new system of citizen-based justice. In Rwanda We Say… returns to years later, as close to 16,000 suspects are released across the country. Having confessed to their appalling crimes, and served the maximum sentence the tribunals would eventually impose, killers are sent home to plow fields and fetch water alongside the people they victimized. In Rwanda We Say…tracks the effects of one suspect’s return to a hillside hamlet. While the government’s message of a “united Rwandan family” permeates the community’s language, violence seems to lurk just below the surface. What unfolds, however, is astonishing. Little by little, neighbors--killer and victim-- begin to talk, first to the camera, and then to each other. |
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Le Joli Mai
(The Beautiful May)
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Released in 1963, Chris Marker's Le joli Mai was one of the first and finest examples of cinema vérité to come out of France. Poetic, witty, complex, the film uses as its initial focus the spring of 1962, the first spring of peace for France since 1939. With rooftop shots of Paris on the screen, the narrator in the opening commentary tells us: "For two centuries happiness has been a new idea in Europe, and people are not used to it." In the very political film which follows, Marker examines that idea of happiness on the small, private scale and on a larger, societal scale. |
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Les Guignols De L'Info pt 7 and pt 8
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Les Guignols de l'info (English: News Puppets) is a satirical latex puppet show broadcast on Canal+, a French subscription-based television channel. Hosted by a puppet facsimile of TF1 news anchor Patrick Poivre d'Arvor, Les Guignols is similar to the 1984–1996 British show Spitting Image. A segment appeared every weeknight on the Canal+ program Nulle part ailleurs, with a weekly recapitulation on Sundays ("La Semaine des Guignols", best of the week). While Nulle part ailleurs no longer runs, the Guignols are still running inside the Canal+ TV Show Le Grand Journal. |
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Nuit et Brouillard
(Night and Fog)
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One of the most vivid depictions of the horrors of Nazi Concentration Camps. Filmed in 1955 at the post-war site of Auschwitz, the film combines color footage with black and white newsreels and stills to tell the story of not just only the Holocaust, but the horror of man's brutal inhumanity. |
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Pleins Feux Sur La Revolution 1789-1799
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Animated story of the French Revolution made from iconographic documents at the Vizille Museum of the French Revolution, famous sayings of that time, period music, and presented in the form of reports, street scenes, accounts of committee meetings, letters, memoires, etc. |
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Touring France
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The tour begins in Nice, Capital of the French Riviera, whree France to its Roman conquerors began; to Cannes the city of the worlds most glamorous film fest, then to lower Province where some of the world's most beloved painters created their masterpieces. On to the wine country of Languedoc and to the shrine of Lourdes and the magnificent Pyrenees. North to the American war memorials at Verdun and the Normandy beaches of World War II. A visit to Joan of Arc's birth place and the site of her fiery execution at Rouen. Tour the gentle Loire Valley with its famous chateaux, Chambord, Chenonceaux and others. To Dijon, capital of Burgundy's golden coast and Lyon, the home of great French chefs. Finally, to the Ile de France, Paris, the "City of Light," the Louvre, the Arc de Triomphe, Sacre Couer, the Champs-Elysees, and the sights and sounds of the Left Bank and haunts made famous by Americans such as Hemingway, Gertrude Stein, George Gerschwin, F. Scott Fitzgerald and others who believed there is only one Paris. |
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