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7 TUESDAY



Westbourne Grove Church
6.30pm
Ideas in Motion
Martin Robertson brings his International Ecology Film Festival – Ideas In Motion – over from Canada.


6.30–7pm
BLUE GOLD 24 mins
Director: Najwa Naijar
English/Arabic/Hebrew. English subtitles.
Water – its scarcity, ownership and exploitation is a ticking time bomb for global conflict. Blue Gold explores this contentious issue on the West Bank, in particular the Hebron area where the Israeli government control the supply of water to the Palestinians.

7.00–8pm
TIME & TIDE 60 mins
Director: Julie Bayer
English/Tuvalu. English subtitles.
Last year, PFF showed The Disappearance of Tuvula which spotlighted how this small South Pacific island was being slowly submerged by rising sea levels. Time & Time explores what happens when a group of islanders who had fled the relentless loss of their homes to settle in New Zealand, return for a nostalgic final look.

8.00–9pm
FROM DUST 56 mins
Director: Dhruv Dhawan
English/Sinhala. English Subtitles.
In the aftermath of the devastation of Sri Lanka by the Tsunami, two survivors and their families struggle to rebuild their lives and homes and the unexpected opposition of their own government who have forbidden building closer than 100 metres from the ocean.

9.00–9.30
Panel Discussion Participation t.b.a.

9.30–10.45
TOTAL DENIAL 74 mins
Director: Milena Kaneva
English/Burmese/Karen. English subtitles.
Over five years, Milena Kaneva followed a native born Karen, on the death list of secret police both in Burma (Myanmar) and Thailand – Ka Has Wa, who systematically and secretly gathered evidence of human abuse before launching a lawsuit in the US with Earth Rights International against Unocal. The results of this court case that may set standards for multinational corporate conduct worldwide.

WALKING TO WERNER 95 mins. Director: Linas Phillips. English.
Orson Welles said a great director should be part actor, part writer, and part producer; which might well describe Linas, the subject of his own journey with a hand held camera, by foot from Seattle to Los Angeles where he hopes to meet the man who inspired him to make films – Werner Herzog.


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