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10:00
Summary: This powerful film is an intimate portrayal of the everyday lives of Carthusian monks of the Grande Chartreuse, high in a remote corner of the French Alps.
10:00
Summary: Docs for Kids: documentaries for and about children
13:00
Silent Light

Movie: Silent Light

Country:Mexico

Director:Carlos Reygadas

Program:Contemporary World Cinema

Screening Program:Silent Light

Venues:Auditorium

Summary: In the north of Mexico there is a Mennonite community that tries to lead its simple religiously-inspired farming life as far as possible away from interfering authorities.
15:00
Description: 3 PM Femke and Ilse Van Velzen, Fighting the Silence (The Netherlands, 2007, 53 min) 4 PM Panel discussion 5 PM Lisa F. Jackson, The Greatest Silence: Rape in Congo (USA, 2007, 76 min.)
15:30
A Good Woman

Movie: A Good Woman

Country:Kenya

Director:Edvine Maloba

Program:Eastern Parallels

Movie: Broken

Country:Kenya

Director:Pithon Muchoki

Program:Eastern Parallels

Movie: The Key

Country:Kenya

Director:Marie Mulli

Program:Eastern Parallels

Movie: Machete

Country:Kenya

Director:Natasha Likimani

Summary: Kaka is a wife beater and an alcoholic, who after years of subjecting his wife to violence, is treated to a dose of his own medicine. He changes his wayward behaviour albeit late…
17:00
Summary: Presented by the filmmaker 2005 world news: in a village in northern Afghanistan a 29 year-old woman had been publicly stoned for adultery. The film follows their affair, trial and punishment with piercing candour.
18:15
Summary: A furtive body performs a work that unites the lore of the North Atlantic Minkisi cults and the Nisibidi of the Ejagham while channeling music and speech from the late African American composer Sun Ra.