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Program 16
Directors Guild of America • 2:15 p.m. • Theatre 2
 
LEST WE FORGET
(USA/Canada, 2003) Dir.: Jason DaSilva
Through critical lenses, this film explores a lesson that history has forgotten in a country that is alienating its citizens and violating their basic rights. During World War II it was Japanese Americans; today it is Muslims and people of Arabic and South Asian descent. LEST WE FORGET examines the post-9/11 roundups and racial attacks that continue to occur in the name of national security. The film contains stories told by individuals who have felt the severity of wartime racism in America and explores the sullied past in the hopes of creating lessons for a different future.
Video, 57 min., color, Documentary, in English and Hindi w/Eng. subtitles
 
Preceded by
AXIS OF EVIL: COWBOYS OR INDIANS?
(USA, 2003) Dir./Scr.: Steven Wong
THE AXIS OF EVIL: COWBOYS OR INDIANS? re-enacts a rare 2001 meeting between Saddam Hussein and George W. Bush months before the World Trade Center bombing, the war in Afghanistan, and the second Iraqi war.
Video, 2 min., color and black & white, Experimental

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