[CivilSoc] Chechnya Film Festival, NYC and DC

[CSI]

Chechnya Film Festival, Visions Cinema in DC, Sept. 16-18, and New York
City, two venues, Sept. 23-25
Amnesty International USA will be cosponsoring a Chechnya Film Festival from
Sept. 16-18 at Visions Cinema near Dupont Circle. Check out p. A18 of
today's Washington Post for a 1/4 page advertisement. The film festival will
also continue in New York on Sept. 23 and 24 at Symphony House and on Sept.
24 and 25 at Helmsley Hotel.
See below for film schedule and descriptions or see
www.chechnyafilmfestival.org. Film festival sponsors include Foundation for
Civil Liberties, International Helsinki Federation for Human Rights, Andrei
Sakharov Foundation and The Memorial Society, Moscow.
FILM FESTIVAL SCHEDULE
WASHINGTON DC
* Visions Cinema, 1927 Florida Ave., NW, Wash DC
www.visions.com
Sept. 16
6 pm Deadlock: Russia's Forgotten War
7 pm Dance, Grozny, Dance
8:30 pm Assasination of Russia
Sept. 17
6 pm Chechen Lullaby
7:15 pm Terror in Moscow
8:15 pm Babitsky's War
Sept. 18
6 pm Greetings from Grozny
7:15 Murder with International Consent
8:30 pm Terror in Moscow
NEW YORK
* Helmsley Hotel, 212 E. 42nd St
* Symphony Space, 2537 Broadway, corner of 95th St
Sept. 23 at Symphony Space
6:30 pm Chechen Lullaby
8:20 pm Greetings from Grozny
Sept. 24 at Helmsley Hotel
10 am Chechen Lullaby
11:10 am Terror in Moscow
12:15 pm Greetings from Grozny
2:30 pm Dance, Grozny, Dance
4:00 pm Deadlock: Russia's Forgotten War
4:50 pm Murder with International Consent
5:40 pm True Stories.... Babitsky's War
Sept. 24 at Symphony Space
6:30 pm Dance, Grozny, Dance
7:50 pm Terror in Moscow
8:50 pm Assassination in Russia
Sept. 25 at Helmsley Hotel
10:00pm Greetings from Grozny
11:10pm True Stories? Babitsky's War
12:30pm Assassination of Russia
1:30pm Murder with International Consent
1:10pm Terror in Moscow
2:10pm Dance, Grozny, Dance
3:45pm Deadlock:  Russian Forgotten War
4:15pm Chechen Lullaby
FILM DESCRIPTIONS:
 * Terror in Moscow, Channel 4/Mentorn, UK. An account of the hostage crisis
in a theater ending in the controversial and ultimately tragic Russian
decision to use a nerve gas, leading to the deaths of more than 125 innocent
victims
 * Chechen Lullaby, Unite Documentaires, France. Testimony of five veteran
reporters frustrated by watching civilians slaughtered in a war largely
ignored by the West
 * DEADLOCK: Russia's Forgotten War, CNN/ Azimuth Media. The war as seen
through the eyes of Russian soldiers and their families, the Chechen
fighters and refugees. Reported by Michael Gordon of the New York Times
 * Greetings From Grozny, Wilton/PBS. Includes unique footage of a Russian
"mopping-up" operation of a Chechen village.
 * Babitsky's War, Channel 4, UK. The story of a journalist who was
kidnapped by the Russian secret service and owes his release to
international outcry.
 * Dance, Grozny, Dance, Zeppers Film&TV, The Netherlands. A dance teacher
leads a Chechen children's folk ensemble from the ruins of Grozny to a
triumphant tour of Western Europe.
 * Assassination of Russia, Transparences Productions, France. A
controversial documentary accusing the Russian secret services of staging
the terror attacks in Moscow that triggered the war and propelled Vladimir
Putin to power.
 * Murder with International Consent, POLSAT-TV, Poland. Referendum under
the barrel: footage of the empty streets of Grozny contradicting the
purported 96% turnout.
Caution: films contain scenes of extreme violence
Maureen Greenwood
Advocacy Director for Europe and Eurasia,
Amnesty International USA,
600 Pennsylvania Ave, SE, Ste. 500,
Washington, DC 20003
(202) 544-0200 ext. 222,
(202) 546-7142 fax
mgreenwood at aiusa.org, www.amnestyusa.org
part-time schedule: Mon, Wed, Thurs