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poor countries without passing on any wealth generated. If the film feels a bit one-sided, it may be because every Western government and corporate spokesperson the filmmakers approached declined to be interviewed. So if you don't mind hearing the underdog speak up for itself for 90 minutes, this movie is a great introduction to a side of the argument not often heard. JC
Fri, Mar 1 (6 pm)
Chasing Ice
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Directed by Jeff Orlowski Metro Cinema at the Garneau
Sun, Mar 30 (3:30 pm)
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Directed by George Gage, Beth Gage Art Gallery of Alberta
In 2008, environmentalist Tim DeChristopher was arrested for making fake auction bids to prevent the US government from selling huge parcels of public land to the oil and gas industry. The tense period leading up to Tim's court date is a cautionary tale of modern civil disobedience, and the stakes feel very high. Clocking in at just over an hour, this doc does a great job of packing a lot of information, contextual background and pure emotional force into a small package. With more time, it could have been more powerful perhaps, but this film will make waves regardless. JC
Chasing Ice tells the story of photographer James Balog's Extreme Ice Survey, a project in which 25 cameras were placed at glaciers in Iceland, Greenland, Alaska and Montana for three years. The resulting time-lapse footage provides irrefutable evidence of the significant receding of each glacier, interpreted as physical proof of climate change and the foundation of Balog's larger argument for immediate, global action to address this issue. The film juxtaposes familiar, tired media coverage of natural disasters and politicians staunchly denying global warming with Balog's stunning photography and video footage. While not everyone will agree with his thesis, no one can refute the physical evidence he captures nor deny that this project was an incredible feat of physical, technological, scientific, artistic and political proportions, with enormous ramifications for society's future. MP
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Sat, Mar 2 (8 pm)
Brother Number One Art Gallery of Alberta
Brother Number One presents a very specific and unique perspective of the impact of the genocidal Khmer Rouge regime in Cambodia, in which millions of people were executed and hardly anyone was ever held accountable. New Zealander Rob Hamill testified at the war crimes tribunal for Comrade Duch, the head interrogator and torturer of the notorious S-21 prison, in which Hamill's brother Kerry was incarcerated and later executed after his boat was attacked by a Khmer Rouge gunship in 1976. Essentially playing out as an extended, visual version of Hamill's testimony, the film acts as a catharsis for Hamill and his family, as well as for the Cambodians he meets during his time there. The intensely emotional subject matter is often difficult to watch, and at times it may sometimes feel a bit like Western voyeurism, but nonetheless this is a fundamentally honest film marking a small step towards both a family's and a country's recovery from past trauma. MP
Sun, Mar 3 (4 pm)
The Gatekeepers
Directed by Dror Moreh Metro Cinema at the Garneau
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Six men, all former heads of Shin Bet, Israel's clandestine, nearly autonomous security agency, which from 1967 onward has focused its resources on counterterrorism and intelligence. The subjects of Dror Moreh's deftly organized and profoundly complex profile of Shin Bet are astonishingly candid about the mire of Israel's seemingly endless tit-for-tat relationship to Palestinian terror, the failings, the human toll, the absence of vision or moral guidance. "No strategy, just tactics," as one subject memorably puts it. Torture, overkill, unsubstantiated motivates for aggression, bad intelligence that leads to the bombing of crowded buildings full of innocents, the inability to prevent the assassination of Yitzhak Rabin: the inside dirt on so much chaos comes to form nothing less than a brief history of Israel—and it is not a history that pats anyone on the back for being in the right. JB
Fri, Mar 1 (12:45 pm)
Gregory Crewdson: Brief Encouters Directed by Ben Shapiro Art Gallery of Alberta
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Sun, Mar 3 (Noon)
The Carbon Rush
Directed by Amy Miller Metro Cinema at the Garneau
This film effectively smashes any utopian delusions of the carbon credit economy for the well-intentioned "First World." The story is the same across the globe: inefficient carbon-credit projects exploit and undermine peasants in
American artist Gregory Crewdson makes haunting largescale still photographs, beautifully composed, crepuscular small-town landscapes inhabited by lonesome figures and a transfixing air of stillness and quiet wonder. His process is less like that of your average art photographer and more like that of a mid-budget independent filmmaker, complete with a small battalion of cinematographers, models, set decorators and fog machines. (It isn't just an
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