Amnesty International Film Festival

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Saturday, January 19th, 2013
2:00 PM to 10:00 PM

Join is for the Amnesty International Film Festival - Hidden Truths

Afternoon Times - Doors open at 1.30, music by West My Friend
2 pm film: Ai Weiwei: Never Sorry, the inside story of a dissident for the digital age who inspires audiences and blurs the boundaries of art and politics.
Film: Third World Canada, following the life of one First Nations family deeply affected by the suicides of their parents and how the surviving children, separated from one another, cope.

Evening Times - Doors open at 6.30, music TBA
7 pm film: UMOJA - No Men Allowed tells the life-changing story of a group of impoverished tribal Samburu women in Northern Kenya who turn age-old patrimony on its head by setting up a women-only village of women who were raped by British soldiers and cast out be their own Samburu families.
Film: The War You Don't See - a powerful and timely investigation into the media's role in war, from the carnage of World War One to the destruction of Hiroshima, and from the invasion of Vietnam to the current war in Afghanistan and disaster in Iraq.