Evanston's Talking Pictures Festival presents an exceptional lineup of independent films from March 8-11.
FREE EVENT!
In our rapidly changing world, countless refugees are displaced from their homes on a daily basis. In December 2011, students from Medill School of Journalism’s “Refugee Lives” project traveled to Jordan, a locus of Palestinian, Syrian and Iraqi refugees. The students came back with an impressive slate of short documentaries that strive to faithfully capture the refugee experience. Also screening are works by young Jordan-based Palestinian filmmakers documenting their own refugee stories. The plight of internally displaced Cambodians represents just one of the harrowing moments in filmmaker Tim Sorel’s THE TRAP OF SAVING CAMBODIA. The film examines the struggles of NGO workers as they try to help the poor while facing a resistant government that annually receives more than a billion dollars in foreign aid from a host of countries like the United States and China.
Followed by a Q&A with the filmmakers.
