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"Genoa Red Zone" screening in Cambridge

IMC Cambridge | 04.05.2004 17:40 | Globalisation | Repression | Cambridge

Hi folks, another film offering for your discerning vision, 7.30pm this Sunday (May 9th) in the back room of the Locomotive on Mill Road.

Genoa Red Zone
Indymedia
80 minutes

In July 2001 leaders from the world's eight most powerful nations (G8) met in the Italian port of Genova. Encircled by a vast steel fence and declared 'off limits' - the city centre became the forum for a brutal and bloody weekend. Despite unprecedented levels of security over 300,000 protesters joined forces to highlight their frustration at increasingly dictatorial, profit-hungry systems of government spearheaded by the G8.

This film does not hide from the truth: Staggering images of violence provide gritty realism yet the beauty of resistance shines through. Despite the repression, a multitude of voices were heard in Genova: Landless Peruvian peasants stood side by side with Sicilian cheesemakers; national boundaries were overturned as an global body of people demanded a world built on social and environmental equality. That flame - it appears - is impossible to extinguish.

Working with over 160 hours of protest-based footage recorded by scores of D.I.Y video teams, an international group of film-makers from Italy, Ireland and the UK set out to unpick the events surrounding those brutal Genova days. This film presents a radical narrative of the build-up to the events, presents the protests at street level and concludes with the long-term struggle for justice in the aftermath of the demonstrations.


If anyone is interested in the background to this, the events depicted in the film and the movement against the G8 then there's loads of information at  http://www.urban75.org/genoa/, and even more scattered around the Internet in general...

Cheers, hope to see you there.

IMC Cambridge
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