Cinema of Resistance (Kolkata) & People's Film Collective welcomes you to its
2ND MONTHLY FILM SCREENING & DISCUSSION
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Sunday, 6th April 2014
Time: 5 pm to 7 pm
No Fire Zone
Genre: Documentary
Dir: Callum Macrae/49 mins/Colour/UK/2013/Simhala, Tamil, English with Eng. subs.
Venue: Near Patuli PS, EM Bypass.
Entry: Free and Open to All
NB. Please respond at cor.kolkata@gmail.com or send an SMS to 9163736863 or 8902550931 to confirm that you would be coming. This is an indoor screening and so there is only limited space
Synopsis:
No Fire Zone is a feature length documentary about the final awful months of the 26 year long Sri Lankan civil war told by the people who lived through it. It is a meticulous and chilling expose of some of the worst war crimes and crimes against humanity of recent times - told through the extraordinary personal stories of a small group of characters and also through some of the most dramatic and disturbing video evidence ever recorded. The footage contained in the film documents the day to day horror of this war in a way almost never done before: Footage recorded by both the victims and perpetrators on mobile phones and small cameras viscerally powerful actuality from the battlefield, from inside the crudely dug civilian bunkers and over-crowded makeshift hospitals. Footage which is nothing less than direct evidence of war crimes, summary execution, torture and sexual violence. This was supposed to be a war conducted in secret. The Government excluded the international press, forced the UN to leave the war zone and ruthlessly silenced the Sri Lankan media literally dozens of media workers were killed, exiled or disappeared. While the world looked away in the first few months of 2009 around 40,000 to 70,000 civilians were massacred mostly by Sri Lankan government shelling, though the Tamil Tigers also stand accused of war crimes.
TRAILER: http://www.youtube.com/watch?
2ND MONTHLY FILM SCREENING & DISCUSSION
_____________________
Sunday, 6th April 2014
Time: 5 pm to 7 pm
No Fire Zone
Genre: Documentary
Dir: Callum Macrae/49 mins/Colour/UK/2013/Simhala, Tamil, English with Eng. subs.
Venue: Near Patuli PS, EM Bypass.
Entry: Free and Open to All
NB. Please respond at cor.kolkata@gmail.com or send an SMS to 9163736863 or 8902550931 to confirm that you would be coming. This is an indoor screening and so there is only limited space
_____________________
Synopsis:
No Fire Zone is a feature length documentary about the final awful months of the 26 year long Sri Lankan civil war told by the people who lived through it. It is a meticulous and chilling expose of some of the worst war crimes and crimes against humanity of recent times - told through the extraordinary personal stories of a small group of characters and also through some of the most dramatic and disturbing video evidence ever recorded. The footage contained in the film documents the day to day horror of this war in a way almost never done before: Footage recorded by both the victims and perpetrators on mobile phones and small cameras viscerally powerful actuality from the battlefield, from inside the crudely dug civilian bunkers and over-crowded makeshift hospitals. Footage which is nothing less than direct evidence of war crimes, summary execution, torture and sexual violence. This was supposed to be a war conducted in secret. The Government excluded the international press, forced the UN to leave the war zone and ruthlessly silenced the Sri Lankan media literally dozens of media workers were killed, exiled or disappeared. While the world looked away in the first few months of 2009 around 40,000 to 70,000 civilians were massacred mostly by Sri Lankan government shelling, though the Tamil Tigers also stand accused of war crimes.
TRAILER: http://www.youtube.com/watch?
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