Features 2 & 3
Tuesday 6th September, 7-9.30pm @ Raleigh Studios, 5300 Melrose Ave
1.
7 Days in Syria
Dir. Robert Rippberger
Produced. Robert Rippberger, Scott Rosenfelt, Janine di Giovanni, Matthew VanDyke, Nicole Tung
USA | 2016 | 75 mins | Language: Arabic with English subs.
A documentary feature unlike any other as Newsweek middle east editor, Janine di Giovanni, risks it all to show us the human side of war in Syria.
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2.
DAZE OF JUSTICE
Dir. Michael Siv
Produced. Donald Young
USA | 2016 | 69 mins | Language: Central Khmer, English subs.
What happens when a 1.5-generation Cambodian American seeks answers about the Khmer Rouge — the ugly reign of terror under Pol Pot’s brutal regime? Filmmaker Mike Siv, finds himself behind the camera on a journey from California to the Khmer Rouge Trials.
Siv is a trusty narrator as he follows a feisty professor who corrals survivors to travel to Cambodia to testify in the trials. Siv is himself a survivor, having fled Cambodia at age 3.
The silence over the decades — Siv says that his own mother, a survivor, never talks about the past — is broken by the brave Cambodian American survivors. Yet, the true hero of the film is an unlikely one. The documentary takes an unexpected turn when the son of a high-profile convicted war criminal, who oversaw the killings of thousands, joins the Cambodian American refugees on a journey to seek justice.
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