~ Films About Peace ~
at Anthology Film Archives: 32 Second Ave. New York, NY 10003
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Saturday, September 27, 2008
Animation Short / Directed by Seiji Arihara, Animation Production by Mushi Production
Tomoko is a young school girl living in Hiroshima. One day during her summer vacation, she visits the Hiroshima Peace Memorial Museum alone. It was for a project called “My Adventure” as part of her homework. The unbelievable facts about atomic bombing of Hiroshima overwhelm Tomoko. Shocked and exhausted, she strolls to the Peace Memorial Park and there she meets a mysterious girl. The girl’s name is Sadako. She was exposed to radiation at the age of 2 and died when she was 10. Sadako guides Tomoko to strange tour.
PEACE (17 min) – 4:00pm – NY Premiere
Documentary Short & Student Film / A film by Stephen Sotor / Trace Gaynor
Stephen and Trace, two 15 year olds from Chicago, ask the question “What is Peace?”. They send one-time use video cameras to students in
ORIGINAL CHILD BOMB (57 min) – 4:45pm
Documentary Feature / Directed by Carey Schonegevel McKenzie
ORIGINAL CHILD BOMB reveals the human cost of nuclear weapons. Declassified footage, photographs, drawings of
On Paper Wings (67 min) – 6:15pm – NY Premiere
Documentary Feature / A film by Illana Sol
In 1945, a Japanese balloon bomb claimed the lives of the only people killed on the continental U.S. as the result of enemy action during WWII. Forty years later, the decision to fold a thousand paper cranes would unite the Japanese and American civilians who were affected by the incident.
*Q&A session with filmmaker
The Town of Evening Calm, Country of Cherry Blossoms (118 min) – 8:15pm –NY Premiere
Feature / Directed by Kiyoshi Sasabe, Production by Art Port, Produced by Toji Kato, Masaaki Usui, Shin Yoneyama, Cast: Rena Tanaka, Kumiko Aso, Masaaki Sakai
Since the atomic bomb, Hiroshima has finally recovered its energy, after 13 years of rebuilding the town. Minami, who lives in Hiroshima together with her mother, has just been proposed to by her co-worker, Uchikoshi. But she has difficulty accepting it. The bomb had taken the lives of her family, and left her with the unforgettable nightmarish experience which is now a deep sar in her heart. Uchikoshi tries to tenderly hold her and the scar, but Minami starts to show effects of radiation exposure.
Present day: Half a century after Minami died at the age of 26, Nanami lives with her retired father Asahi and her brother in Tokyo. One day, she follows Asahi, who left without a word, to Hiroshima. Following her father’s footsteps, she experiences the lives of her family, and discovers her roots…
*Q&A session with Producer/Art Director
（C）2007「夕凪の街 桜の国」製作委員会
Sunday, September 28, 2009
Hidden in the Sand (38 min) – 3:00pm – NY Premiere
Documentary Short / Student film / A film by Vasia Markides
Famagusta, a city in the Turkish-occupied part of Cyprus, was evacuated during the 1974 invasion and still remains surrounded by barbed wire and under surveillance by the Turkish military. While examining the fate of this “hostage ghost city”, the film explores the ugly effects of nationalism and propaganda in the Greek and Turkish Cypriot communities.
*Q&A session with filmmaker
Listen to Iran's People: A Call for Peace (30 min) – 3:50pm – NY Premiere
Documentary Short / A Video by Margot Smith
Peace delegates from Fellowship of Reconciliation visited Iran in March, 2007. The 23 were welcomed by Iran's vice president, and were told by students, professors and imams, and people on the street that Iranians all want peace. The video shows historic religious diversity--Zoroastrians, Jews and Christians-- the controversial Holocaust Conference, their desire for nuclear power (but not nuclear weapons). Iranians sent a message to the United States that they desire to maintain peace.
*Q&A session with filmmaker
Arid Lands (98 min) – 5:10pm
Documentary feature / A film by Grant Aaker / Josh Wallaert
Sixty years ago, the Hanford nuclear site produced plutonium for the atomic bomb dropped on Nagasaki. Today, it is the focus of the largest environmental cleanup in history. Arid Lands takes us into a world of sports fishermen, tattoo artists, housing developers, and radiation scientists living and working in a unique landscape of the American West.
*Q&A session with filmmaker
Wings of Defeat (89 min) – 7:30pm
Wings of Defeat: Another Journey (39 min) – 9:15pm
Documentary Feature / A film by Risa Morimoto / Linda Hoaglund
Wings of Defeat brings viewers behind the scenes of World War II’s Pacific theater to reveal the truth about the Kamikaze—the “suicide bombers” of their day. Interviews with surviving kamikaze, rare battle footage and Japanese propaganda reveal a side of WWII never before shown on film. American vets from the greatest generation tell harrowing tales of how they survived attacks. Wings of Defeat shatters the myth of the fanatical kamikaze to reveal a generation of men forced to pay for an empire’s pride with their lives.
*Q&A session with filmmaker
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Advance tickets available at www.smarttix.com
General Admission: $10 / $12 at the Door
Students/Senior: $ 7 / $ 8 at the Door
"On Paper Crane: Tomoko's Journey" / "PEACE" : $ 5
Wings of Defeat & Wings of Defeat: Another Journey Combined: $ 12 / $15 at the Door
All Pass: $30 / $35 at the Door
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Access to Anthology Film Archives: 32 Second Avenue, New York, NY 10003
(corner of 2nd Ave. & 2nd Street)
SUBWAY: 2 min. walk from 2nd Avenue Lower East Side Station – F, V
5 min. walk from Bleeker Station – 6
7 min. walk from Broadway-Lafayette Station – B, D, F, V
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