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Friday Nov. 14 Schedule 7:00 pmSAND AND SORROW A look into Darfur, killing and crimes against a nation’s own people, hear the call to be their hope Conversation

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Friday Nov. 14Friday Nov. 14ScheduleSchedule

7:00 pm SAND AND SORROWA look into Darfur, killing and crimes against a nation’s own

people, hear the call to be their hope

Conversation with Ameera Abbo and Adam Abdalla,

Darfurian Congress of Canada; whose lives are shaped by the ongoing conflict. Hear their passion, share in their effort.

Friday Nov. 14Friday Nov. 14ScheduleSchedule

9:00 pm NEW YEAR BABYA journey to Cambodia to discover a family’s past

Conversation with Dom Eam,

Vice-President of the Calgary-Cambodian Association

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Saturday Nov. 15 ScheduleSaturday Nov. 15 Schedule1:00 DEVOTION AND DEFIANCE

The struggle for religious freedom in Tibet

Conversation with Tsering Chodon

a member of the local Tibetan community

Saturday Nov. 15 ScheduleSaturday Nov. 15 Schedule

2:00 THE FORGOTTEN WOMAN Calgary Premiere

after Deepa Mehta’s Water…this beautiful depiction of the harsh reality of widowhood

in India

Conversation with Aradhana Parmar

Associate Professor of Development Studies, University of Calgary

Saturday Nov. 15 ScheduleSaturday Nov. 15 Schedule

4:30 TAR SANDS: THE SELLING OF ALBERTAQuestions abound: from the pipefitter, to Peter Lougheed, to

Washington lobbyist

Conversation withSid Dykstra,

President, Opti Canada Andrew Nikiforuk,

Author of “Tar Sands: Dirty Oil and the Future of a Continent”

Saturday Nov. 15 ScheduleSaturday Nov. 15 Schedule

7:00 THE BATTLE OF CHERNOBYL Calgary Premiere The little known, dramatic story that followed the Chernobyl Nuclear

Power Plant explosion

Conversation with David Marples,

Professor, Dept of History & Classics, University of Alberta

Mary Nokleby, Member, Citizens Advocating the

Use of Sustainable Energy (CAUSE)

Saturday Nov. 15 ScheduleSaturday Nov. 15 Schedule

9:00 A LESSON OF BELORUSSIAN Calgary PremiereBe inspired by youth organizing to be free, to achieve democracy for

Belorussia

Conversation with David Marples

Professor, Dept of History & Classics, University of AlbertaSandra van den Brink

Founder, Ayudamos Foundation

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Sunday Nov. 16 Sunday Nov. 16 ScheduleSchedule

1:00 TANGIER TREEHOUSE Calgary PremiereMoroccan street children build a treehouse and find themselves

transformed

Conversation with Michael Lickers

Executive Director and Founder of Ghost River Rediscovery

Sunday Nov. 16 Sunday Nov. 16 ScheduleSchedule

2:30 WE ARE TOGETHER (Family Film)The moving story of South African children overcoming hardship with

music

Conversation with the Pritchard family

from Calgary who’ve volunteered in a similar situation and region in South Africa

Sunday Nov. 16 Sunday Nov. 16 ScheduleSchedule

4:30 THE UNFORSEEN Calgary PremiereWhen land development threatens Barton Spring, a fragile limestone

aquifer, a community fights back

Conversation with Mark Bennett

Bow River Basin Council Brian Pincott

City of Calgary AldermanModerated by Jim Brown

Host of the Calgary Eyeopener, CBC Radio One and

Co-Director of the film Radiant City

Sunday Nov. 16 Sunday Nov. 16 ScheduleSchedule

Conversation with

Anne Aspler who stepped out to make a difference,

founding the University Of Alberta Chapter Of Dignitas International

7:00 TRIAGE: DR. JAMES ORBINSKI’S HUMANITARIAN DILEMMA

Orbinski revisits Somalia, Rwanda and the Congo and reflects on lives lost and lives saved, seeking to make sense of it all

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