Event info: Friday 10 October 2008 – 7:00pm to 9:00pm
They went to Iraq as cooks, clerks, and mechanics and returned a year later as part of America’s first generation of female combat veterans. Despite an official government policy that states that women are not supposed to partake in direct ground combat, the five women featured here most certainly did. LIONESS, tells the story of [...]
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gender,
Middle East,
military,
peace,
trauma,
war
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Event info: Friday 30 May 2008 – 7:00pm to 9:00pm
Born in a Thai refugee camp on Cambodian New Year, filmmaker Socheata Poeuv grew up in the United States never knowing that her family had survived the Khmer Rouge genocide. In NEW YEAR BABY, she embarks on a journey to Cambodia in search of the truth and why her family’s history had been buried [...]
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militarism,
peace,
reparations,
social movements,
South East Asia,
war
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