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Dear Film Friends and Art Lovers!
Don't miss our weekend cinema
feat. two "Oscar" winners...

* FRIDAY DOC
FRI, 28/09/07, 7PM: BORN INTO BROTHELS
by Ross Kaufman and Zana Briski (USA)

Born into Brothels, by Ross Kauffman and Zana Briski, is the winner of the 77th annual Academy Award for Best Documentary Feature. A tribute to the resiliency of childhood and the restorative power of art, Born into Brothels is a portrait of several unforgettable children who live in the red light district of Calcutta, where their mothers work as prostitutes. Zana Briski, a New York-based photographer, gives each of the children a camera and teaches them to look at the world with new eyes.

* FOCUS CAMBODIA
SAT, 29/09/07, 7PM: BATTLE FOR LIFE
by Nico Mesterharm (GER)

Nico Mesterharm's  TV Documentary was filmed in 2001/2002 for the European Cultural Program "ARTE" It shows the work of different NGOs combatting HIV/AIDS – such as the outstanding "Wat Opod Project": In Takeo province the American Missionary and Vietnam-veteran Wayne Matthysse and Vandin San, a Khmer Buddhist, co-founded the first multi-religious AIDS-Center in Cambodia - located on the temple-grounds of Wat Opod, 45 Kilometer from Phnom Penh.

* SET IN ASIA
SUN, 30/09/07, 7PM: APOCALYPSE NOW
by Francis Ford Coppola (USA)
Apocalypse Now is a 1979 Academy and Golden Globe award winning American film set during the Vietnam War. It tells the story of Army Captain Benjamin L. Willard who is sent into the Cambodian jungle to assassinate United States Army Special Forces Colonel Walter E. Kurtz, who is said to have gone insane. The film has been viewed as a journey into the darkness of the human psyche. The film was directed by Francis Ford Coppola and was in large part based on Joseph Conrad's famous novel Heart of Darkness (1899). PRESENTED BY FLORIANNE WILD, PH.D.

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posted by Jinja @ 7:57 PM