Cultures Of Resistance Mini-Season
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Iara Lee, a Brazilian of Korean descent, is an activist, filmmaker, and founder of the Cultures of Resistance Network, an organization that promotes global solidarity, supports peace with justice projects and brings together artists and changemakers from around the world.
The season includes Iara's most recent projects: The Suffering Grasses: When elephants fight, it is the grass that suffers, which explores the Syrian conflict through the humanity of the civilians who have been killed, abused, and displaced to the squalor of refugee camps; and a short film The Kalasha and the Crescent on the Kalash indigenous resistance movement in northern Pakistan, which chronicles how the Kalashas are responding to the challenges facing their culture. We will also show a number of other films from Cultures of Resistance highlighting the response of indigenous peoples to oppression.
Films in the Cultures Of Resistance Mini-Season:
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Film: The Suffering Grasses
6 Oct 2013, 3:30 p.m.
A film documenting the words of refugees who have fled from the bloody fighting in Syria. Seeking to understand the feelings and experience those exiled in camps the film presents the complex realities of international politics and the suffering of those who bear the brunt of war. Followed by discussion hosted with The Canny Little Library. Screening free but donations to Syria appeal requested.
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Film: Cultures Of Resistance
10 Nov 2013, 7 p.m.
A stunning trio of short films by Director Iara Lee highlighting indigenous cultures facing oppression. With Q&A and opportunity to discuss how to support indigenous communities.