Pavee Lackeen

Pavee Lackeen

Date: Tue 19 February 2008

Directed by Perry Ogden
Running time 88 mins, (cert 15)

This event is part of our Behind the Screen series

"Life is like a bank: what you put in you get out." So says a fortune teller in the opening scene of Pavee Lackeen. By rights, the world should lie open before the 10-year-old girl whose palm has just been read. However Young Winnie is an Irish Traveller, and the revelation in the following scene that her mother has just had to hock her own wedding ring for a small amount of cash suggests that Winnie may never have much capital to invest in the bank of life. And if Winnie's existence already seems precarious at the film's beginning, it is far more so by the end.

Played by a largely non-professional cast of Travellers, this is a funny and moving portrait of a community destined to remain in a trap of poverty, illiteracy and petty crime, engendered by uncaring bureaucracy and social exclusion.

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Rosita

Rosita

Date: Tue 18 March 2008

'Horrific and heartbreaking, a must see piece of film making' Eye For Film

Directed by Barbara Attie and Janet Goldwater
Running time 58 mins

This event is part of our Behind the Screen series

In January 2003, news spreads throughout Central and South America that a nine-year-old Nicaraguan girl has become pregnant as the result of a rape. Rosita is the only child of illiterate campesinos working in Costa Rica as coffee pickers at the time of the assault. Fearing for their daughter's life and mental health, Rosita's parents are determined to obtain an abortion for their child.

Their quest pits them against the governments of Nicaragua and Costa Rica, the medical establishment, and the Catholic Church. When their story gains international media attention, the repercussions ripple across Latin America and Europe.

This is a Women's Action Network screening.

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Born Into Brothels

Born Into Brothels

Date: Tue 22 April 2008

Directed by Zana Briski and Ross Kaufman
Running time 82 mins

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Winner of the 2003 Academy Award for documentaries, Born Into Brothels follows the lives of a group of children in Sonagachi in the red light district in Calcutta.

Photojournalist and director Zana Briski gave the children cameras and taught them how to shoot and edit the world they knew: the crowded, filthy boarding house where their mothers live and toil. For this group of bright, energetic, curious kids, the only path out of the brothels leads to a decent boarding school, and Briski sees their photography as a means to fund their education.

The spectre of long odds and narrow choices shades every frame, yet the tone is often buoyant and inspirational, as when the class runs riot during a seaside field trip. Born Into Brothels testifies to the kids untaught resilience and hope, and to their mentor's selfless energy.

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