Worldbridger Film Series at VIU:Parksville Campus

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Wednesday, March 31st, 2010
7:00 PM

LOCATION: VIU Parksville Campus, Room 129 (The Forum)

JAN 27

Home

(2009/France/120 min/English) – Featuring stunning aerial footage from 54 countries, Home is a must see on the big screen. Beginning with the creation and evolution of the animal species, the documentary shows the diversity of life on Earth and chronicles the present day state of the planet’s climate and the life it supports.


FEB 3

Meaning of Life

(2008/Canada/82 min/English) – This documentary showcases Kwikwexwelhp, a unique prison located in British Columbia with an unusual model of rehabilitation.

FEB 10

The Syrian Bride (subtitled)

(2004/Israel, Germany, France/97 min/English, and Arabic, Hebrew, and Russian w/ Eng subs Eran Riklis) – Beautiful Mona is engaged to be married to Tallel, a popular television comedian. It’s the eve of her wedding, and this should be the happiest day of Mona’s life. But Mona lives in Majdal Shams, the largest Druze village in Golan Heights, and Tallel lives and works in Damascus, Syria.


FEB 17

Rabbit Proof Fence

(2002/Australia/94 min/Aboriginal and English) – Based on the book Follow the Rabbit-Proof Fence by aboriginal author Doris Pilkington Garimara, this film tells the tale of Australia’s “Stolen Generation”. It recounts the real life story of the author’s own mother and two other mixed-race Aboriginal girls, who ran away from the Moore River Native Settlement in order to return to their Aboriginal families.


FEB 24

Food Inc.

(2008/U.S.A/94 min/English) – Controlled mostly by a handful of multinational corporations, the global food production business has as its unwritten goals the production of large quantities of food at low cost. This results in enormous profits, and greater control of the global food supply by fewer and fewer companies.


MAR 3

Sin Nombre (subtitled)

(2009/Mexico and U.S.A/96 min/Spanish (w/ Eng subtitles)) – Seeking the promise of America, a beautiful young Honduran woman joins her father and uncle on an odyssey to cross the gauntlet of the Latin American countryside en route to the United States. While stowing away on a train, she crosses paths with a teenaged Mexican gang member who is manoeuvring to outrun his violent past and elude his unforgiving former associates.


MAR 10

Tibet: Cry of the Snow Lion

(2002/U.S.A/104 min/English) – Ten years in the making, this documentary was filmed during nine journeys throughout Tibet, India and Nepal. It brings audiences to the long-forbidden “rooftop of the world” with an unprecedented richness of imagery: from rarely-seen rituals in remote monasteries, to horse races with Khamba warriors; from brothels and slums in the holy city of Lhasa, to magnificent Himalayan peaks still traveled by nomadic yak caravans.



MAR 17

Irina Palm

(2007/Belgium, Luxembourg, U.K., Germany, and France/103 min/English) – Maggie, a 50-year-old widow, desperately needs some money to pay for a medical treatment for her ill grandson. After several unfruitful attempts to find a job, Maggie finds herself roaming the streets of London Soho. Her eye is caught by a small poster in the window of a “shop” called “Sexy World” which reads: “Hostess wanted.” Too desperate, dazed, and naïve to realize what she’s doing, she takes the job. Soon, she transforms herself into the much sought after and highly paid “Irina Palm.”


MAR 24

Who Killed the Electric Car?

(2006/U.S.A/92 min/English) – It was among the fastest, most efficient production cars ever built. It ran on electricity, produced no emissions and catapulted American technology to the forefront of the automotive industry. The lucky few who drove it never wanted to give it up. So why did General Motors crush its fleet of EV1 electric vehicles in the Arizona desert? Who Killed the Electric Car? chronicles the life and mysterious death of the GM EV1.


MAR 31

Amal (subtitled)

(2007/Canada/101 min/Hindi and English) – Auto rickshaw driver Amal is content with the small, but vital, role he serves—driving customers around New Delhi as quickly and safely as possible. But his sense of duty is tested by an eccentric, aging billionaire, who, moved by Amal’s humility, secretly bequeaths him his entire estate before passing away.