[Reader-list] BFS Presents:' The Conflicts of our Histories'

[Bangalore Film Society ,]

'He still digs humanity, but it bothers Him to see the shit that gets
carried out in His name - wars, bigotry, but especially the factioning
of all the religions. He said humanity took a good idea and, like
always, built a belief structure on it.'

-       Kevin Smith on God's feelings towards humanity in 'Dogma'

 The predicament is of the past as it winds through the present into
the future. The past is not history but many histories, each one of us
carrying our own separate baggage of values and prejudices into the
future. As the world closes in on itself our paths and pasts collide
in a vulnerable and decisive moment of change, a moment that may seem
to care not for your values, prejudices even existence but is actually
a moment of immense possibility. It is a moment that calls for
reckoning- does one negotiate one's beliefs and histories to 'fit in'
'adjust' and fall in harmony with the new future or does one cast
one's beliefs in stone, histories in identities and humans in
categories? It is the ink in which the future will be written.

 Bangalore Film Society presents 'The Conflicts of Our Histories',
three incidents of times of change made turbulent and bloody by the
dirty hands of so many histories.

 Friday 22nd February, 2008                                  Time: 6.30pm

Bloody Sunday (2002/110min)                Dir: Paul Greengrass

 Acclaimed director Greengrass's breakthrough film is a modern
classic, a gritty, eyewitness account of the controversial 1972
shootout in Derry, Northern Ireland as soldiers of the British
Parachute Regiment opened fire on a group of civil right
demonstrators. Shooting in cinema verite style, Greengrass tracks both
sides of the conflict as he tries to recreate the reason, horror and
the consequences of the violence.  Winner of Audience Award at
Sundance 02 and Golden Bear at Berlinale 02.

 Saturday 23rd February, 2008                                 Time: 6.30pm

 Attila 74: The Rape of Cyprus (1975/101min)   Dir: Michael Cacoyannis

 Director Cacoyannis rushed with a two man crew from London to Cyprus
on hearing new of the Turkish invasion to craft this poignant and
candid chronicle of his motherland reeling under death and
displacement of over 200,000 Cypriots. Never released theatrically,
Attila 74 was used by the director to generate funds for the refugees.


Sunday 24th February, 2008                                     Time: 6.30pm

 Pretty Village, Pretty Flame (1996/115min)     Dir: Srdjan Dragojevic

 Shot in times of actual conflict, Director Dragojevic's brutal yet
absurdly comic tale of the Yugoslavian conflict turns a common parable
of friends forced into opposite factions of war into a melancholic
yearning for the pre-war idyll of their childhoods as also by showing
both sides of the conflict, a searing anti-war plea.

Venue: Ashirvad, 30, St. Mark's Road cross, Op. State Bank of India

Tel: 2549 2774/ 2549 3705/ 9886213516

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