Sunday 12th February
10.30am for 11am, at the Renoir Cinema.
10.30am for 11am, at the Renoir Cinema.
JUST DO IT
Emily James, UK 2011 [12A], 88 mins
Emily James spent a year within the environmental movement documenting the clandestine activities of the major players. In this feature documentary, she presents an insider's account of the new global movement, an independent group funded by volunteers; inspiring, anarchic individuals with inventive strategies challenge the multi-nationals, frustrate the police and create confusion. This film shows what one group of committed individuals can achieve.
NOT IN OUR NAME
Gabrielle Tierney, Ireland
Nine men were totally acquitted of their £350,000 criminal damage to the International Arms manufacturer in Derry in 2006. The decision became a legal benchmark; an act of deliberate civil disobedience recognised as a weapon in the fight for peace. This film documents the victory and their solidarity with the people in the Lebanese town of Qana
Discussion led by Emily James, Gabrielle Tierney and Anne-Marie O’Reilly, Outreach Co-ordinator, Campaign Against Arms Trade
Sunday 8 January 2012
10.30am for 11am start at the Renoir Cinema.
LOCKED OUT
Joan Sekler, US 2010 [12A], 60 mins
The multinational, Rio Tinto group, historically known for draconian measures, attempted to severely cut the pay and conditions of 570 borax miners in the isolated, desert town of Boron , California
UNDER THE CRANES
Emma-Louise Williams, UK 2011 [12A], 56 mins
Director Emma-Louise Williams has collaborated with Hackney poet and resident Michael Rosen to produce a film-poem that explores the inter-connection between ourselves and where we live, based on his play Hackney Voices. The changing face of Hackney and its residents emerges through current images, urban sounds and rare historical footage, and Rosen's voice illuminates and questions the threats and the choices fostered by the dubious activities of Hackney Council and the regeneration of the area.
Discussion led by Emma-Louise Williams, Michael Rosen and Shane Enright - Amnesty International UK Trade Union Campaigns Manager/ AI Global Trade Union Adviser.
Sunday 11th December
10.30 for 11am start at the Renoir Cinema.
THE COCA-COLA CASE
German Gutierrez/ Carmen Garcia, Canada 2009 (E) 80 mins
Labour rights lawyers Daniel Kovalik and Terry Collingsworth are activists for the 'Stop the Killer-Coke campaign,' which has seen Ray Rodgers put the Coca-Cola empire on trial. Coca-Cola stands accused of the drying of water wells in India and the torture/ murder of union leaders trying to improve working conditions in Columbia, Guatemala and Turkey. Predictably, two courts have already dismissed their claims but the struggle continues to make the giant multinational drinks company accountable for policies of profit over people.
VILLAGE LIVES, DISTANT POWERS
Peggy Froerer, India/ UK (E) 32mins.
Produced by Margaret Dickinson
Focusing on one village in central India, this film asks why the poor are routinely deprived of basic services; how does a culture of bribery impact on their everyday lives. The story is told from the perspective of the anthropologist/ filmmaker who takes up a problem with a senior civil servant and soon finds herself also paying court to a politician. It poses sharply the potential contradiction in the idea that an anthropologist is a 'participant observer.'
Discussion led by Tony Benn, filmmaker Peggy Froerer, Senior Lecturer in Anthropology at Brunel University, and writer and filmmaker Margaret Dickinson.
Sunday 13th November
10.30 for 11am start at the Renoir Cinema.
UK PREMIERE
DEADLY DUST (TODESSTAUB)
Frieder Wagner, Germany 2006 (E) 93 mins
In a science-based documentary, we accompany Prof Gunther, epidemiologist and specialist in tropical diseases, and his expert colleagues as they explore the effects of depleted uranium ammunition used in Iraq, Kosovo and Bosnia, though banned by the Hague and Geneva Conventions. Winds can carry them clear across our planet, leaving behind a path of destruction. The surge in post-war birth defects indicates an epidemic of reproductive abnormalities. We express our gratitude to Frieder Wagner for facilitating today's premiere.
UK PREMIERE
WITH THE LINCOLN BRIGADE IN SPAIN
Henri Cartier- Bresson/ Herbert Kline, US 1938 (E) 18 mins
Internationally acclaimed photographer Cartier- Bresson filmed the Brigade, which had emerged in response to the US policy of non intervention. Drawn from all wakes of life and thought to be the first military unit commanded by a black officer, the volunteers trained alongside Spanish troops and became known for their bravery. In 2010 the Abraham Lincoln Brigade Archive discovered, restored and re-released this cinema treasure.
Discussion led by Rae Street, CND Council member and active in the International Coalition to Ban Uranium Weapons, John Green, former documentary filmmaker, and Helen Graham, Professor of Modern European History at Royal Holloway University of London.
The November programme was co-sponsored by CND and the International Brigade Memorial Trust.
Sunday 11th September 2011
10.30 for 11am, at the Renoir Cinema.
The November programme was co-sponsored by CND and the International Brigade Memorial Trust.
Sunday 9 October 2011
10.30am for 11am,
SYLVIA PANKHURST: EVERYTHING IS POSSIBLE,
Ceri Dingle/Viv Regan, UK 2011 [E], DVD, 90 min
The contribution made by campaigner Sylvia Pankhurst to
human rights is contextualised in this documentary researched and produced by
over 100 volunteers. The film contains interviews with her son Richard
Pankhurst and his wife Rita as well as suffrage historians and rare archival
footage. While her mother Emmeline and sister Christabel focused on a limited
suffrage of upper class women, Sylvia devoted her time to improving women’s
lives during the war in the slums of East London .
Initially establishing nurseries and a free clinic, the movement for universal
suffrage encompassed the women’s struggle, the Irish struggle and the anti war
movement and aroused the wrath of politicians.
AWRA AMBA: UTOPIA IN ETHIOPIA
Paulina Tervo, Ethiopia 2010 [E], DVD, 28.5 mins
Awra Amba is a model village nestling in the hills of northern
Ethiopia
Discussion led by Ceri Dingle and Mary Davis, Professor of Labour History at London Metropolitan
University.
Sunday 11th September 2011
PICCADILLY,
Ewald André
Dupont , UK
Ewald Andre Dupont, a German émigré, voices the sexual and racist tensions in this London London UK
A PALACE FOR US:
Tom Hunter, UK 2010 [Advised E], 18 mins
The artist and filmmaker Tom Hunter entices us to look
afresh at the Woodberry Down Estate in East London . Filmed in and around the Estate, the memories
and experiences of residents, who have lived there since it opened are
beautifully re-captured through dramatisations and evoked through sound and
image. The film challenges the negative stereotypes of working class culture;
these residents present the hopes and dignity that the newly formed welfare
state had offered to communities reeling from the poverty and anxiety of the
30’s and 40’s.
Discussion led by Bryony
Dixon, Curator of Silent Film at the BFI National Archives, Tom Hunter, Senior Research Fellow and
lecturer at the London College of Communication, University of the Arts London,
and Lizzie Woods, Public &
Commercial Services Union (PCS) organiser, with the Royal Cleaners’ Campaign
for the London Living Wage