CAIA announces two upcoming film screenings at the Brunswick Theater this month
MASSAKER is a psycho-political study, in content and aesthetics, about six suspects who took part in the massacres of Sabra and Shatila, not only because they were ordered to do so but also for their own motives. The film incorporates the psychological dispositions of the suspects with their political surroundings and approaches the phenomenon of collective violence through the accounts of the perpetrators. GOAL DREAMS is a feature length documentary about national and personal identity as seen through a team like no other. Comprised of multiples cultures, speaking different languages and having no home field, the Palestinian national soccer team and its players must overcome obstacles of a physical, emotional, cultural and geographic nature just to exist.
Tuesday October 23 at 7 pm: Massaker * Wednesday October 31 at 7 pm: Goal Dreams: Journeys of the Palestinian National Soccer Team *
Back by Popular Demand!
The Coalition Against Israeli Apartheid invites everyone to the second screening in Canada of the award-wining documentary: MASSAKER.
Date: Tuesday, October 23
Time: 7 pm
Tickets: $10 waged, $5 students, seniors and unwaged
Location: Brunswick theater (296 Brunswick Ave.)
BUY YOUR TICKETS IN ADVANCE. ONLY ONE SCREENING. The theater has been sold out for previous CAIA film-screenings.
ickets will be available at
** Brunswick theater (296 Brunswick Ave.)
** Toronto Women's Bookstore (73 Harbord st.)
You can also purchase them on line at: http://www.brunswicktheatre.ca/
About the Film:
In 1982 over a single three-day period, 1000 – 3000 Palestinian civilians, mostly women, children and the elderly, were murdered in Sabra and Shatila. The exact number of victims killed, abducted or both between the 16th and 18th of September 1982 is still unknown. The suspected perpetrators are mainly from the Forces Libanaises, a Christian militia allied to Israel. The Israeli army arranged the logistics of the massacre and was commanded by the former Minister of Defence and future Prime Minister Ariel Sharon.
In 1982, the massacre in the Lebanese Palestinian camps shocked the world; today it is (almost) forgotten although it formed the template for subsequent massacres: for example in Rwanda or in the Yugoslavian wars.
Unanswered questions come up over and over again: what drives people to such excesses of cruelty, and how can those who committed such crimes live on?
MASSAKER is a psycho-political study, in content and aesthetics, about six suspects who took part in the massacres of Sabra and Shatila, not only because they were ordered to do so but also for their own motives. The film incorporates the psychological dispositions of the suspects with their political surroundings and approaches the phenomenon of collective violence through the accounts of the perpetrators. Without intending to reconstruct the massacres of Sabra and Shatila verbatim, MASSAKER shows a previously untold version of the atrocities through the intertwined stories of six protagonists: the version of the people who committed the crimes.
Awards: FIPRESCI Prize Berlinale 2005, Prix SRG SSR idée suisse Visions du réel Nyon The Brunswick Theater is located in the former venue of the Poor Alex Theater at 296 Brunswick Ave. at Bloor, West of Spadina.
For More Information: http://www.brunswicktheatre.com/ and tel: 647-282-3627
For more information on the Coalition Against Israeli Apartheid please visit www.caiaweb.org or email us at endapartheid@riseup.net.
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The Coalition Against Israeli Apartheid invites everyone to a screening of the documentary: GOAL DREAMS: Journeys of the Palestinian National Soccer Team.
Date: Wednesday, October 31 Time: 7 pm
Tickets: $10 waged, $5 students, seniors and unwaged
Location: Brunswick theater (296 Brunswick Ave.)
Tickets will be available at
** Brunswick theater (296 Brunswick Ave.)
** Toronto Women's Bookstore (73 Harbord st.)
You can also purchase them on line at: http://www.brunswicktheatre.ca/
About the film:
Goal Dreams is a feature length documentary about national and personal identity as seen through a team like no other. Comprised of multiples cultures, speaking different languages and having no home field, the Palestinian national soccer team and its players must overcome obstacles of a physical, emotional, cultural and geographic nature just to exist.
The film follows the team as it prepared for a decisive match in its attempt to quality for the 2006 World Cup. Together, through the universal language of football, the players of Palestinian origin from around the world are learning to forge a common identity. For a film preview see: http://www.goaldreams.com/.
For More Information: http://www.brunswicktheatre.com/ and tel: 647-282-3627
For more information on the Coalition Against Israeli Apartheid please visit www.caiaweb.org or email us at endapartheid@riseup.net.