Edinburgh Film Festival announces programme
ab | 08.05.2008 10:07 | Culture | Education
The Edinburgh Film Festival takes place this year from 18th till 29th of June. Politically interesting films are also offered, like on Israel/Palestine and the Abu Ghraib prisoner abuse.
Recommended for viewing seem to be following socio-political films:
- Angels in the Dust
Marion Cloete gave up her privileged life in a wealthy suburb of Johannesburg to build an orphanage where she now houses, feeds, educates and cares for more than 500 children whose lives have been shattered, one way or another, by AIDS. - To See if I'm Smiling
Six young Israeli women talk with extraordinary candour about the things they did and saw during their compulsory two years of military service. - 14 Kilometres
The film’s title refers to the distance between North Africa and Spain: the final stretch of the journey towards a life where “nobody dies of hunger”, here undertaken by three young Africans. - Standard Operating Procedure
Errol Morris (The Thin Blue Line, The Fog of War) here obtains the firstperson testimony of the soldiers charged with prisoner abuse at Abu Ghraib in 2004 (including the notoriously camerafriendly Lynndie England). - Emmanuel Jal: War Child
Emmanuel Jal learned how to fire an AK47 at the age of eight, after he was taken from his family and forced to fight in the Sudanese civil war. - Lemon Tree
A Palestinian widow finds her beloved lemon grove threatened when an Israeli government minister moves in next door.
Also interesting are following dramas:
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