[Mitai-announce] Come to the Genocide in Film Series! Starting TONIGHT (fwd)

[Elan Pavlov]

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Date: Wed, 14 Jan 2009 12:42:28 -0500
From: Stephen Fried <sdfried at MIT.EDU>
To: mit-stand at mit.edu
Subject: Come to the Genocide in Film Series! Starting TONIGHT

Hey everyone!

MIT-STAND (A Student anti-Genocide Coalition) and Amnesty International are 
sponsoring a film series focusing on awareness of genocide during IAP. The 
movies that we have selected highlight lesser-known episodes and aspects of 
genocide in modern history to illustrate that the phenomenon is not insulated 
or exclusive to a single group but a recurrent theme of our times that must be 
addressed in its various contexts.  We will have dinner and a movie in 6-120 at 
6:00PM during the Wednesdays of IAP, starting tonight!  Extra details about the 
individual films can be found below.
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Wed Jan 14, 06-08:00pm, 6-120
"Amen." (2002)
"Amen." (2002) examines the complex nature of Jews in Christian narratives, and 
what effect this had on the deteriorating position of European Jews in the 
1940s. This film raises the question of complicity of the Catholic Church with 
the Holocaust.
IMDB: http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0280653/


Wed Jan 21, 06-08:00pm, 6-120
"The Great Silence" (2007)
Since the late 1990s, more people have died in war-torn Congo than in any 
conflict since World War II. "The Great Silence: Rape in the Congo" (2007) 
exposes the use of sexual violence as a weapon of war in this perennially 
war-torn region.
IMDB: http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1157650/


Wed Jan 28, 06-08:00pm, 6-120
"Las Madres de la Plaza" (1985)
"Las Madres de la Plaza" (1985) discusses the massive disappearances and 
kidnappings that occurred from 1976-1983 in Argentina during the tumultuous 
rise of a military dictatorship.
IMDB: http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0089460/

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| Stephen D. Fried
| sdfried at mit.edu
| Class of 2009
| Dept. of Chemistry | Dept. of Physics