Screening Times
Thursday, February 10th 2011, 7:30pm, Moriarty Arts and Humanities Building, Room 104 Thursday Evening Documentary Film Series Sponsored by Afrique Bistro and Queen of Sheba International Foods
All films are free and open to the public on a first-come, first-served basis.
STOLEN
Directed by Violeta Ayala and Dan Fallshaw
Australia, Western Sahara, 2009 , 75 min.
Directors Ayala and Fallshaw set out to make a simple documentary about family reunions in Saharawi refugee camps controlled by the Polisario Liberation Front. Their project became much more complicated when they discovered that many of the dark-skinned refugees were in fact the slaves of those with lighter complexions. Or were they? Was there really widespread servitude or was it something more culturally subtle? The Polisario denied the filmmakers’ assertions, labeled them cultural imperialists, and tried to stop the project. The result is a powerful, suspenseful film, which raises thought-provoking questions about the possibility of documentary objectivity. The film has provoked an ongoing international controversy. Winner of the Best Feature Documentary Prize at the 2010 Pan-African Film Festival in Los Angeles.
In Hassaniya, Spanish, and English with English subtitles.
