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Friday, March 28, 2008
6:00 PM		My Home - Your War Shot in Baghdad over three years that span the time before, during and after the invasion of Iraq, My Home – Your War employs insightful interviews with Layla Hassan, an ordinary Iraqi woman, and her family as well as vibrant scenes of Baghdad and intimate footage shot by Layla herself to paint a compelling picture of how the war has created a situation where the rise of fundamentalism is putting women’s rights increasingly at risk.		dir. Kylie Grey 2006, Australia/Iraq, 52 min Arabic with English subtitles website
6:55 PM		Los laberintos de la memoria This lovingly hand-made documentary from director Guita Schyfter (“Novia que te vea”) examines parallel stories of the search for identity and origin. Beginning with the image of giant turtles making their slow march back to the sea, the narrator reminds us that these animals always return to the beach of their birth. This symbolic image becomes the backdrop for intriguing cross-generational tales of political exile, displacement and the search for roots.		dir. Guita Schyfter 2007, Mexico, 95 min Spanish with English subtitles
8:30 PM		Lost in Beijing Like a lot of young women her age, Liu Ping Guo struggles to get by. Between her income as a foot masseuse and her husband's as a high-rise window cleaner, the two can barely afford a dingy apartment and life's most sacred essentials. Set against the frenzied backdrop of Beijing, where a fast growing economy has created a new class of urban socialites, this film epitomizes the struggle of working a class woman in China’s new money-obsessed society.		dir. Li Yu 2007, China, 112 min Mandarin with English subtitles trailer