Come get your film on for gender justice.

Hey all you movie buffs out there!  The Transitional & Transnational Justice Working Group at the Center for Global Studies is presenting their Second Annual Film Series over the course of April on Women, War & Settling Accounts After Atrocity.  Not exactly rom-com material, but much, much more interesting.

I personally am most excited about Threads of Hope, which is being co-sponsored by Women and Gender Studies.  I am their graduate assistant, and I have had the opportunity to work on the logistics for the film screening.  It is going to be really powerful, I hope you will make time to catch the screening.  Each screening will be followed by a Q&A session led by a Mason faculty member.


Film Schedule: 

Threads of Hope (March 24 @ 12:00 pm—Research I Room 163)

This revealing documentary on the ‘disappeared’ during the reign of terror after the Pinochet
military coup in 1973 tells the story of women left behind, but who have found the courage to
triumph over their terrible past.

This Chilean Arpillera commemorates relatives that 'disappeared' during Augusto Pinochet's dictatorship in Chile.  The women left behind use these powerful visual depictions to convey the atrocities committed during Pinochet's rule. 

War Don Don (April 5 @ 7:30 pm—Founders Hall 134, Arlington Campus)

In 2002, Sierra Leoneans celebrated, when after 10 years of violent civil conflict, the war finally
came to a close. This award-winning film is based on unprecedented access to prosecutors,
defense attorneys, victims and perpetrators, and highlights the challenges justice is facing in
an attempt to cope with past mass atrocities when rebuilding lawless and war torn nations.

Burma VJ (April 13 @ 4:30 pm—Research I, Room 163)

This footage about high-risk journalism and dissidence in a police state follows courageous
young Burmese activists who despite the risk of torture and imprisonment, engage in journalistic
video reporting to keep up the flow of news from their oppressive and closed country.

Milk of Sorrow (April 19 @ 4:30 pm—Mason Hall, Meese Room)

Milk of Sorrow, a runner up for last year’s Academy Awards for best foreign film, follows the
story of Fausta who suffers from “La Teta Asustada” (The Milk of Sorrow), an illness transmitted
through the breast milk of women who were raped during Peru’s war of terror. This capstone
event will feature a presentation by Kimberly Theidon, an anthropologist from Harvard
University whose research inspired the film.