DVD Crimes Without Honour

Here's an extract from the movie distributor:

Stop the bad name of the community by preventing it, says Toronto Christian Indian community Aruna Papp who had to marry against her will to a man she had never met.

People have been committing so-called honour crimes since time immemorial. While many of us believed these acts were a thing of the past, reality has bluntly taught us otherwise. Around the world, people are dying by the thousands in the name of honour. The Shafia murders were Canada's wake-up call. Sweden was shocked by the slaying of Fadima by her own father. Honour killings are happening in England, Germany, the Netherlands, France, Sweden, Canada... in ever increasing numbers.

In Crimes Without Honour, the filmmaker explores several lines of enquiry through the stories of Aruna Papp, a Christian from India living in Canada; Necla Kelek, a Turkish woman living in Germany; Sara, a Kurd who has settled in Sweden; and Arkan, a young Kurd who was raised "like a Swede."

Aruna, Necla, Sara and Arkan have all had the courage to stand up against their communities' criminal traditions and denounce these hateful crimes, even at the risk of ostracism.

The DVD contains both English and French language documentary films directed by Raymonde Provencher.



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Maori Event in Montreal

Return of a Toi Moko to the New Zealand Te Papa Tongarewa Museum by the Montreal Museum of Fine Arts.

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EDEN - Pictures

These are stills from the multi-performing-arts-play called
EDEN ...an imaginative journey exposed in the raw

and from the interview with Heather Black

Online Petition About Quebec so-called Justice: Please sign and Invite your friends

The following texte was copied from the Petition page :

In Québec, criminals seem to benefit more from rights and help than do their victims!! Isn't it about time that this changes!! I have recently became friends with women on Facebook who have inspired me to create this cause …they are presently taking steps to have certain Quebec laws modified in order to offer better protection to the victims, especially children victim of aggression and their families. All of Quebec is aware of the story of Guy Turcotte, the ex-cardiologist who was judged not criminally responsible for the slaying of his two young children, stabbing them 46 times, on February 20th, 2009 in Piedmont. Since September, he has been granted unsupervised outings, between 8 and 16 hours per day and is permitted to stay out overnight when lodged by family members. This coming December, the ex-cardiologist may even find himself completely free… the Crown prosecutor has appealed the verdict and asked that Turcotte be retried, arguing that the ex-cardiologist can not be judged 'not criminally responsible' for the simple reason that he voluntarily intoxicated himself before committing his crime. The Appeals Court must decide whether or not a new trial is necessary in early 2013. It is time for us, as a moral society to stand together and have our voices heard. Offer support to these women who are fighting to have the laws of our so-called "Justice System" modified in order to give justice to the victims and stop protecting the criminals. Please sign this petition saying that we want change in our penal system. Yes, we want a retrial for Guy Turcotte…we want justice for these two poor children, Anne-Sophie(3yrs) and Olivier(5yrs), who will never have the chance to grow.

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EDEN ...an imaginative journey exposed in the raw

A 3-part evening on Saturday 3 November 2012 at the Theatre Sainte Catherine (link below) : African drumming and storytelling.at 8:00 ; followed by the theatrical show ; followed by the After Party.

EDEN ...an imaginative journey exposed in the raw
The story is about a girl who struggles to write her story because she is clouded by her attachment to a spoon. Her spoon gets stolen and it's up to her to recover her spoon. Because of this, she goes on a journey that exposes her to her imagination, her shadow and her equal, before realizing that in order to grow, she needs to 'let go' of her attachment.

Music composed By DJ Sheauwen

The doors open at 8pm, with a performance by Denis Keshi, who will be doing African drumming and storytelling. Then the theatrical show starts at 9pm

After Party
After the performance there is an After Party in the Theatre with two DJ's and a African Drummer.

For the whole night's event the cost will be $20.

8thGeneration is a Theatrical Company that uses all forms of artistic expression to convey deep and powerful messages to an audience in a colourful and imaginative way.

http://8thgeneration.co/
http://theatresaintecatherine.com/en/?m=20121103&cat=3

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NFB DVD : In Pieces

The National Film Board of Montreal has recently released a very moving, new, bilingual DVD of feminist artist Paule Baillargeon.

Intimate and rebellious, the movie director tells it like it was for women in Quebec. With the help of her own drawings, sketches, movie extracts and new images she pulls out moments of her life, from a very young age in her natal Abitibi till now at 64.

A Very Personal Film
With music and images, her voice recalls the Montreal Massacre,  Pierre Elliott-Trudeau, blindfolds, the Quebec Quiet Revolution which certainly never was anything but bloody when it comes to women, her dog, her mother, her father, women who have nothing and that go crazy and men who have everything and go idiot, her home region of Abitibi which is so far north and where she had no books or coloring pencils of her own, the women's rebellion, her movies, the invisible women of today who look like walking gaskets, slaving women who used to work like dogs but were said to be unworking mothers, abandonment, postfeminism with perhaps no knowledge of valium-taking grand-mothers, her mother who wore slacks and who was dying from lack of love...

EXTRACTS

I'm nothing now.

A surprise desire for happiness.

... because it's the nightmare of my life.

Apparently I have everything a girl could want, and more.

But acting on my wishes is not for me.

... someone who murders me while I'm not paying attention.  

Anasthasie is me! 

War words become love words in the man's mouth.

 

Know Your Women's History
It's certainly more than worth watching and listening to for if women don't know their history, they are bound to repeat the same mistakes and re-enslave themselves with post-feministic theories and old forgotten blindfolds.
Certainly the City of Montreal won't be of any help - in a recent year it instituted the Women's History Month which lasted 15 days since it was announced 15 days late, and it never came back.

In Pieces can be both purchased in DVD format or downloaded.


Filmographie de Paule Baillargeon (complete list of her movies)

DVD Trente tableaux, film documentaire de l'ONF, artiste, féminisme rarissime au Québec, prise de conscience anti-masculiniste
Paule Baillargeon : « Anasthasie, c'est moi. »

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Montreal Greek Film Festival

4th Edition, from October 25 to November 3, 2012

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This year, the MontrealGreekFilmFestival teams up with Italy.

MGFF will be featuring fabulous movies including film classics like Medea with Maria Callas (her only filmed performance ever), Electra with Irene Pappas, Stella with Melina Mercouri, and Mediterraneo; as well as recent films about musicians, organ trafic, and other social and human matters including migrations from the Ottoman Empire.

Most films and documentaries presented have received awards like Oscars, Golden Globes, public awards or critics awards.

There will be a young directors event on Halloween night, an exhibition, a conference by a Corcordia University Engineering professor about a computer that took 50 years to figure out...

Check out all the details on their web site: MontrealGreekFilmFestival.com

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