TIMBUKTU DEMONSTRATES WHY JIHAD MASKS FOR COLONIZATION Directed by Abderrahmane Sissako, but filmed in nearby Oualata, also dating back to the 12th century, Timbuktu begins by showing the peaceful lives of citizens of rural Mali—cattle farming, fishing, and an open market amid sand dunes and ruins of ancient structures. Arabic-speakers with weapons have arrived in
POLITICAL FILM SOCIETY AWARDS ANNOUNCED Members of the Political Film Society chose the following films as the best in each of four categories: DEMOCRACY Kill the Messenger (directed by Michael Cuesta) EXPOSÉ Difret (directed by Zeresenay Mehari) HUMAN RIGHTS César Chavez (directed by Diego Luna) PEACE Diplomacy (directed by Volker Schlöndorff) TIMBUKTU DEMONSTRATES WHY JIHAD
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FINAL VOTING ON NOMINEES FOR BEST POLITICAL FILMS OF 2014 CONTINUES Members of the Political Film Society have narrowed the nominated films to no more than five in each category for 2014. Members now have the opportunity to pick the very top film in each of four categories, with a deadline of February 28 to
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FINAL VOTING ON NOMINEES FOR BEST POLITICAL FILMS OF 2014 BEGINS Members of the Political Film Society have narrowed the nominated films to no more than five in each category for 2014. Members now have the opportunity to pick the very top film in each of four categories, with a deadline of February 28 to
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VOTING CONTINUES ON NOMINEES FOR BEST POLITICAL FILMS OF 2014 During 2014, 21 films were nominated in the 4 categories for Political Film Society awards, though only 3 for Democracy (César Chavez, Free the Nipple, Kill the Messenger) and 4 for Peace (César Chavez, Diplomacy, Giovanni’s Island, The Railway Man). Our rules require final balloting for only the
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VOTING BEGINS ON NOMINEES FOR BEST POLITICAL FILMS OF 2014 During 2014, 21 films were nominated in the 4 categories for Political Film Society awards, though only 3 for Democracy (César Chavez, Free the Nipple, Kill the Messenger) and 4 for Peace (César Chavez, Diplomacy, Giovanni’s Island, The Railway Man). Our rules require final balloting
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AMERICAN SNIPER REVEALS COMBAT IN IRAQ, TROUBLE AT HOME Clint Eastwood, in directing American Sniper, wants the world to know the patriotism, fog of war, difficulty of avoiding the killing of women and children, and how the war experience makes life difficult for a wife and family back home. Based on the autobiography of Chris
SELMA RECALLS THE HEROES OF THE CIVIL RIGHTS STRUGGLE Selma is intended to show the conflicts that Martin Luther King, Jr., (played by David Oyelowo) faced before the Selma to Montgomery March in 1965. One conflict was with Malcolm X (Nigel Thatch), another with the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee in Selma led by John Lewis
SELMA RECALLS THE HEROES OF THE CIVIL RIGHTS STRUGGLE Selma is intended to show the conflicts that Martin Luther King, Jr., (played by David Oyelowo) faced before the Selma to Montgomery March in 1965. One conflict was with Malcolm X (Nigel Thatch), another with the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee in Selma led by John Lewis
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AN EXTRAORDINARY ATHLETE SURVIVES AS A POW OF JAPAN IN UNBROKEN Louis Zamperini (played by Jack O’Connell) learns how to endure, first as a boy picked on for being Italian, then as a runner who wins in the 1938 Olympics, next as a life raft survivor of an airplane crash in the middle of the