Past Events - Spring 2007

Genocide and Peace Studies Film Series 2007

The Killing Fields 2/04
         Filmed in 1984, The Killing Fields is a faithful adaptation 
of article by Pulitzer Prize winning war correspondent Sydney H. 
Schanberg, relating the personal story of friendship, separation, 
survival and reunion set against the atrocities of the genocidal 
revolution in Cambodia. 

    No Man's Land 2/11
          No Man's Land, set during the 1993 Bosnian conflict with 
Serbia, is the story of a Bosnian and a Serbian soldier who find 
themselves trapped in a trench between the warring factions in the 
heaviest time of fighting. 

    Sometimes in April 2/18
           This powerful docudrama, directed by Haitian Raoul Peck,came 
out shortly after Hotel Rwanda. It was filmed in Rwanda, often at the 
actual crime scenes and includes multiple Rwandan actors. Although 
Hotel Rwanda too fills an important void, Sometimes in April perhaps provides a broader picture of the events that occurred in 
Rwanda during the 1994 genocide. 

    Rabbit-Proof Fence 2/25
            Set in 1930s Australia, Rabbit-Proof Fence tells the story of a government policy that required "half-caste" children (Aboriginal mothers and white fathers) to be trained as servants. Based on the true story of Molly Craig, this film follows the odyssey of three young girls who escaped from the government's facility and, using the country's long stretches of rabbit-proof fences as their guide, walked 1500 miles to find their way home.

    Smoke Signals 3/04
            Smoke Signals is an engaging story about a pair of 22-year-old Native American men making the journey from the reservation to Phoenix where one is to pick up his estranged father’s ashes from a caring Native woman who explains why the guilt-ridden father left his tribe.

    Lord of War 3/25
            Although Lord of War is only indirectly about genocide, it does show the ease with which minor actors of conflicts can now acquire weapons, increasing situational and emotional violence in regions across the world. There will be a brief introduction and follow-up question/answer session by Amy Hudnall of the ASU History Department.

**All films are shown in the Greenbriar Theater located in the Student
Union at 2 pm on Sundays.**