Velo Rouge Cafe Documentary Film night

Sun, Apr 2
6pm-8:30pm
free

A documentary film series that will make you think.

Admission is free, beer, wine and real good food will be available =

for sale.

THIS MONTH'S FILMS EXPLORES THE DESPERATE ACTS OF REFUGEES AND THE =

LESS THAN WELCOMING TREATMENT THAT THEY RECEIVE WHEN THEY ARRIVE ON =

FOREIGN SOIL.


SEOUL TRAIN
Jim Butterworth, Aaron Lubarsky, and Lisa Sleeth bull 2005 bull 55 =

minutes

Seoul Train is an emotionally wrenching look at a heroic Underground =

Railroad, an international band of activists who risk their own lives =

to lead North Korean refugees out of China and into countries that =

will give them asylum. The film's verite' footage follows groups of =

refugees and their escorts through safe houses and covert routes to =

uncertain fates. Seoul Train spotlights a harrowing and potentially =

explosive human rights crisis where, in the absence of news coverage =

and international humanitarian aid, a small group works to make a big =

difference in the lives of desperate refugees.
Awards:
- Winner, Film Festival Internazionale di Milano
- Winner, Brooklyn Film Festival
- Winner, Artivist Film Festival
- Winner, Boulder Film Festival
- Winner, Jackson Hole Film Festival


BALSEROS
Carles Bosch & Josep M=AA Dom=E8nech bull 2002 bull 120 minutes

When Fidel Castro told Cubans they wouldn't be punished for leaving =

back in the summer of 1994, some 50,000 men, women and children set =

out for Florida on rafts strung together with rusted out bits of roof =

tops, inner tubes wrapped in canvas, and wood snagged from the back =

rests of park benches.

By the time President Bill Clinton convinced Castro to close the =

coastline in exchange for allowing a set number of Cubans into =

America each year, thousands of the balseros, the rafters, had been =

detained by the U.S. Coast Guard and sent to Guantanamo Bay, Cuba. =

Spanish journalist and documentary film maker Carlos Bosch followed =

seven of the rafters, from the slums of Havana to new lives in the =

new world.

Academy Award Nominee, Best Documentary

Venue:

Velo Rouge Cafe
798 arguello
san francisco
415 752 7799
http://www.velorougecafe.com/#

798 arguello at mcallister

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