Screenings for October 2009
Theme Focus: Africa

Wednesday, October 7, 2009

Sometimes In April

Dir: Raoul Peck

France / 2005 / 140min

In April 1994, after the Hutu Army begins a systematic slaughter of Tutsis and more moderate Hutus, Augustin and a fellow Army officer named Xavier, defying their leadership, attempt to get their wives and children to safety. Seperated from his wife Jeanne and their two sons (whom he entrusts to the care of his reluctant brother), Augustin gets caught in a desperate struggle to survive. Barely escaping the purge, he's haunted by questions about what happened to his wife, sons and daughter (Who was a student at a local boarding school). In 2004, looking for closure and hoping to start a new life with his girlfriend Martine (who taught at his daughter's school), Augustine visits the United Nations Tribuanl in Arusha, where Honore awaits trial for the incendiary role he and other journalists played in the genocide.

Wednesday, October 14, 2009

Yesterday

Dir: Darrell Roodt

S. Africa / 2004 / 96min

After falling ill, Yesterday learns that she is HIV positive. With her husband in denial and young daughter to tend to, Yesterday's one goal is to live long enough to see her child go to school.

Wednesday, October 21, 2009

No Screening.

Inauguration of Chetana Studio Floor and Audio Workshop By Resul Pookutty.

Contact: 0487-2330830

Wednesday, OCtober 28, 2009

Hotel Rwanda

Dir: Terry George

USA / 2004 / 121min

Ten years ago some of the worst atrocities in the history of mankind took place in the country of Rwanda--and in an era of high-speed communication and round the clock news, the events went almost unnoticed by the rest of the world. In only three months, one million people were brutally murdered. In the face of these unspeakable actions, inspired by his love for his family, an ordinary man summons extraordinary courage to save the lives of over a thousand helpless refugees, by granting them shelter in the hotel he manages.