THE VENERABLE W
Co-sponsored by Belmont Against Racism
Directed by Barbet Schroeder
France, Switzerland | 2017 | 100 min. | English, French, Spanish & Burmese with subtitles
New England premiere
Barbet Schroeder (Reversal of Fortune, Single White Female) paints a terrifying portrait of the Buddhist monk Ashin Wirathu, leader of the anti-Muslim movement in Myanmar, with this documentary about the religious tensions between the country’s Muslims and Buddhists.
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SITTWE
Directed by Jeanne Hallacy
Myanmar, USA, Bangladesh | 2017 | 20 min. | Burmese with subtitles
Two teenagers from opposing sides of the conflict in Myanmar, who were both displaced in Rakhine state during communal violence in 2012, were filmed over two years to explore their ideas about each other’s communities, the root causes of the conflict, and the possibility of reconciliation and peace.
Speaker: Yee Htun, a clinical instructor in the Harvard Law School's International Human Rights Clinic and formerly the director of the Myanmar Program for Justice Trust, who was born in Myanmar and left the country after the pro-democratic uprising in 1988.
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Part of the Month of Francophonie
