MAIN PROGRAM B
Theater 222, Innis College
2 Sussex Street, Toronto, M5S 1J5
7 PM – WEDNESDAY June 22
SD: Keeping Them Safe
Directors: Lauren Sandler, Marrisa Sandler
Australia
0:28:00
Sopheak, a single mother works in one of Cambodia’s many ‘Karaoke Bars’, doing whatever she can to earn a few dollars to support her 7 year-old daughter in a country still reeling from the devastation caused to its people by the barbaric Khmer Rouge regime that ruled only one generation ago. Sopheak must make tough choices to avoid falling into the hands of child traffickers, who prey on the desperation of women like her.
FD: Which Way to the War
Director Sue Useem
United States of America
1:40:00
Indonesia, the world’s most populous Muslim nation, was also becoming the world’s 3rd largest democracy with its free elections in 1998. Filmed over a three-year period, this film delves into the heart of religious conflict in Poso and Indonesia. American filmmaker Sue Useem and her team traveled to some of the most remote regions of Indonesia to understand the dynamics and anatomy of religiously motivated violence in this overwhelmingly tolerant nation
