Week 48 - The road to Guantanamo & March of the Penguins

Thursday - 30/11 - 19.00 - The road to Guantanamo
Michael Winterbottom. 2006. UK. 95 min.

Den brittiske regissören Michael Winterbottom (Welcome to Sarajevo) har gjort en dokumentär om tre brittiska fångars väg till Guantanamobasen. Filmen har visats på Berlin Filmfestival 2006 där den vann Silverbjörnen för bästa regi. Filmen berättar historien om The Tipton Three, en trio brittiska muslimer som hölls fångna i Guantánamo Bay i två år innan de släpptes utan åtal. /bio.nu

English: In 2001, four Pakistani Britons, Ruhal Ahmed, Asif Iqbal and Shafiq Rasul and another friend, Monir, travel to Pakistan for a wedding and in a urge of idealism, decide to see the situation of war torn Afganistan which is being bombed by the American forces in retaliation for the 9/11 terrorist attacks. Once there, with the loss of Monir in the wartime chaos, they are captured by Northern Alliance fighters. They are then handed them over the American forces who transport them to the prison camps at the Guantanamo Bay base in Cuba. What follows is three years of relentless imprisonment, interrogations and torture to make them submit to blatantly wrong confessions to being terrorists. In the midst of this abuse, the three struggle to keep their spirits up in that face of this grave injustice. /imdb.com
Sunday - 3/12 - 19.00 - March of the penguins
Luc Jacquet. 2005. France. 85 min.

Enifascinerande film om ettiav naturens mest intressantaidjur i en miljöifå av oss lärifå besöka.
Pingvinresan är en hisnande vacker film omikejsarpingvinen som en gångiom året, i tusental,ivandrar från havet 20imil upp på landii Antarktis för attipara sig. När honanilagt ägget ger honisig tillbaka till havetiför att hämta matimedan hanen ruvar ägget.iI 40 dagar hållerihan ägget i sinaiklor och äter ingenting.iNär ägget kläcks kaniungen överleva i fyraidygn utan mat ochidet gäller att honanikommer fram i tidimed fisken hon fångat. /discshop.se

English: Each winter, alone in the pitiless ice deserts of Antarctica, deep in the most inhospitable terrain on Earth, a truly remarkable journey takes place as it has done for millennia. Emperor penguins in their thousands abandon the deep blue security of their ocean home and clamber onto the frozen ice to begin their long journey into a region so bleak, so extreme, it supports no other wildlife at this time of year. In single file, the penguins march blinded by blizzards, buffeted by gale force winds. Guided by instinct, by the otherworldly radiance of the Southern Cross, they head unerringly for their traditional breeding ground where--after a ritual courtship of intricate dances and delicate maneuvering, accompanied by a cacophony of ecstatic song--they will pair off into monogamous couples and mate. /imdb.com