Dance House & Maryhill Integration Network
Gita Sahgal
PEN Writing Workshop
The Sex Worker’s World Cup: Christina Schaefer
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Making A Difference:
Shatila Camp – AlaaIddin Helou & Visible Human Beings – Fatima Helou
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Bloody Sunday, Margo Harkin
The Immediate Broth presents…
The Romany King – Viliam Poltikovic
Scottish Documentary Institute Masterclass: Presumed Guilty
Young People’s Programme: JCC Lunch
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Mixed Shorts:
The Road To Drumleman, Jan Nimmo:
Suddenly Last Winter, Luca Ragazzi & Equality Discussion:
Unravel – The Longest Hand Painted Film In Britain:
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Document 8′s grand finale takes place in Sarajevo this Saturday, as our Making a Difference project and Projecting Scotland programme take part in the Pravo Ljudski festival. Heading over with us are Darren Hercher, director of the brilliant Sighthill Stories, Nick Higgins the executive producer of the New Ten Commandments and critically acclaimed novelist Alan Bissett, the writer of Accidental Media’s award winning short, The Shutdown. Cannae wait!
Aisheen – Still Alive in Gaza
Nicolas Wadimoff, Switzerland, 2009, 1hr25min
“Where is the ghost town?” inquires the little boy. "It's there, right there….but it has been bombed. Do you want to see it?” asks the theme park attendant. It is with these words that Aisheen Still Alive in Gaza begins its impressionist journey through a devastated Gaza.
The film tells the story about the wait after the invasion. The wait for a better future inside the biggest prison in the world, where planes still prowl overhead, where bombings don't stop, men and women wandering through the ruins and fishermen savour the few fish caught by their nets in this now forbidden sea.
Through encounters in ordinary places, Aisheen portrays a different Gaza from the one we see on television news; a Gaza in which everything takes on a different meaning. Poetic and surreal, at times, the film questions the meaning of life and the reality that the men, women and children of Gaza face on a daily basis while simply trying to survive. Condemned to living under atrocious conditions where basic human rights are denied and death lurks round every corner, the residents of Gaza begin to rebuild, brick by brick.
Aisheen – Still Alive in Gaza is a tribute to life – to freedom and against injustice.
International Berlin Film Festival 2010, Ecumenical prize of the jury. International Nyon Documentary Film Festival 2010, Award Buyens/Chagoll and a special mention of the Youth Jury. Screened at HotDocs (2010)
The Legacy Issue: Putting the wrongs of the Northern Ireland conflict to rights
Eamonn McCann will trace the way a local campaign against injustice and inequality in Derry sparked a more generalised revolt against the State and led on to 30 years of Trouble. He will assess the extent to which the events which detonated the Troubles can be seen as part of the global upsurge of ‘60s radicalism and whether, if at all, the subsequent course of the Northern Ireland conflict fitted into any wider pattern. Was “the struggle” always a matter of communal rivalry and hostilities? If the Good Friday Agreement is now seen as the answer, what was the question?
One of the early organisers of the NI civil rights movement, Eamonn McCann has been active in radical politics for more than 40 years. He currently contributes political columns to the Belfast Telegraph, the Derry Journal, the music magazine Hot Press and Socialist Worker. He is chairman of the Bloody Sunday Trust, a member of the National Executive of the NUJ and of the Northern Committee of the Irish Congress of Trades Unions.
In collaboration with the School of Fine Art, Glasgow School of Art.
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