Burning Memories

Burning MemoriesRated: n/a
Director: Sritharan Someetharan
Length: 45 min
Documentary
India

Saturday: 2:30pm – Hendricks Art Center 1

Sunday: 2:30pm – Bagels & More

*subtitled*

Part 1 of Double Feature Goddesses
Part 2 of Double Feature – Burning Memories (NOTE: tickets for this double feature sold on Goddesses page)

One of the most traumatic events of the early stages of the civil war in Sri Lanka that has been raging for more than 25 years is the burning of Jaffna Public Library, which housed more than 97,000 books and irreplaceable palm leaf manuscripts, the wanton burning of the most important library of the Tamils was a major loss to the cultural heritage.

This film attempts to document the war-scarred life of the library and the socio-political violence connected with it. The Jaffna Public Library was the major repository of literary source materials of the Tamil people and Tamil language. By 1981, it had over 97,000 books and rare, old manuscripts and papers. It was a place of historic and symbolic importance to the local minority Sri Lankan Tamil people. In 1981, Sinhalese policemen and government sponsored thugs set fire to the Jaffna Public Library, thus destroying it completely.

The film narrates the entire history of the library, since its inception in 1933, by juxtaposing voiceover and interviews of the former employees of the library. Mr Sabaratnam, who had been the member of the library since 1948. The archival video footage (1981) of the interview of Mr Rasa Viswanathan, Mayor of Jaffna at the time, recollects the entire incident including the involvement of armed constabulary in the devastation.

This documentary film focuses on the cultural tragedy during the ethnic strife in Sri Lanka.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BposIze1w_g

Goddesses

Rated: n/a
Director: Leena Manimekalai
Length: 45 min
Documentary
India

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Note: One ticket is for both films

Part 1 of Double Feature Goddesses
Part 2 of Double Feature – Burning Memories

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Website: Goddesses the Film
The Indian film is one of the best documentaries seen in years. Director Leena Manimekalai may be an engineer by profession, but she has worked in the media and knows all about the creative aspects of digital filmmaking, production and editing.

This is no ordinary film. Filmed in HD in 2007, it runs for only 42 minutes and still jolts you, interests you and, above all, enlightens you on what women in India can achieve in spite of the bare minimum they have to live on.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=t4Hyb9BVjXw

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Never Winter

Rated: R
Director: Moe Charif                 Producer: Ingrid Gonzalez
Length: 30 min
Drama | Short
USA

filmmaker on siteThursday: 5:00pm – La Casa Grande
filmmaker on siteSunday: 2:30pm Beloit Library

Part 1 of Double Feature Craig’s Story
Part 2 of Double Feature – Never Winter (NOTE: tickets for this double feature sold on Craig’s Story page)

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Website: It’s Never Winter

Based on a true story, Never Winter is the heart wrenching drama of an only child, Chloe Hammond, who seeks a better life away from her drug addict mother. The 11-year old decides to take matters into her own hands and stand up to her abusive mother. When her plan backfires she finds herself in a situation that gets progressively worse.

Chloe’s only hope is a school counselor, Amira Yaseen, who fights to give her a chance at a normal life. Ms. Yaseen tries her best to keep Chloe’s hope alive as she faces complications that prevent her from keeping a promise she made to Chloe.


http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hmHLOppsH9M

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Craig’s Story

Rated: PG13
Director: Aaron Williams    Producer:Aaron Williams
Length: 38 min
Documentary | Short | Biography
USA

filmmaker on siteThursday: 5:00pm – La Casa Grande  Buy Tickets
filmmaker on siteSunday: 2:30pm Beloit Library  Buy Tickets

Note: One ticket is for both films

Part 1 of Double Feature – Craig’s Story
Part 2 of Double Feature – Never Winter

 

Craig Buege was a very talented and athletic young man that everyone liked. He had a great stable family and lived in a nice suburb in a small Midwestern town. His smile and laugh were in infectious. Craig died of a heroin overdose in 2009 at the age of 20. This emotional film, made from home movies and interviews from friends and family, share how trying Oxycontin easily leads to shooting heroin. Former addicts also share how addiction is a painful struggle with yourself and hurts the others around you who love and care about you.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pRhTxj9YFEo

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