Documentaries on Fallujah to be shown in Anchorage

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From Alaskans for Peace & Justice:


FALLUJAH....ON FILM

One year ago this month, and just days after the U.S. presidential election, American troops attacked Fallujah, Iraq. The city was said to be a resistance stronghold. About the size of Anchorage, 100,000 of Fallujah's residents are still refugees; it is now surrounded by a fence with four military checkpoints and remains devasted. The U.S. recently admitted using white phosphorus, against international law. These three independent films are from those who were there. These are their stories.

OCCUPATION: DREAMLAND
Unflinchingly candid portrait of a squad of American soldiers deployed in the doomed Iraq city of Fallujah during the winter of 2004. A collective study of the soldiers unfolds as they patrol an environment of low-intensity conflict creeping steadily towards catastrophe.
Directors: Garrett Scott and Ian Olds

OCCUPATION:
Dreamland recalls Stanley Kubrick's Full Metal Jacket, except with real kids."
- Adam Sternbergh, New York Magazine
CAUGHT IN THE CROSSFIRE: The Untold Story of Fallujah
A joint production between Iraqi and American filmmakers, Caught in the Crossfire was filmed un-embedded, outside the influence of the military or corporate media. Shot between November 2004 and April 2005, the film captures the conditions experienced by civilians as they endured the consequences of Operation Phantom Fury and became refugees outside the eyes and care of the international community. A new film, the documentary was just released in October.
Directors: Mark Manning and unnamed Iraqis

FALLUJAH: THE HIDDEN MASSACRE

Just released, this Italian documentary interviews U.S. military and citizens from Fallujah about the use of white phosphorus. "A rain of fire fell on the city. The people struck by this multi-coloured substance started to burn; we found people dead with strange wounds, the bodies burned but the clothes intact," states Iraqi biologist Mohamad Tareq, from the film.
Directors: Sigfrido Ranucci and Maurizio Torrealta

Tuesday, 29 Nov @7pm
Anchorage Museum of History & Art
Admission: $5 (suggested donation)

(a benefit for medical supplies to Iraq)