The Punishment (US Premiere)
Goran Rebic, Austria, 1999, 90m (35mm, doc)
The Punishment uses interviews and cityscapes to describe the conditions in Belgrade immediately after NATO's bombing campaign in the spring of 1999. The film is a cinematic essay about dissidence and destruction, about the loss of hope and home. From the voices of an endangered opposition spoken in impassioned vŽritŽ interviews (including school children, philosophers, human rights activists and combatants), filmmaker Goran Rebic unfolds a startling view of the personal and societal effects of the conflict that the rest of the world was never shown. The Punishment addresses subjective realities because so-called objective realities have long since ceased to have any validity.
Preceded by:
The Job
Johan Eriksson, UK, 1999, 26m (video, doc)
A television reporter's stark confessions from two assignments to Kosovo where he was investigating mass graves before the NATO bombing campaign. Powerful eyewitness interviews and firsthand film footage of the atrocities in Kosovo include an unforgettable scene of one man introducing the viewer to all 22 members of his family, recently massacred and buried in rows on the family's farm.
Tues June 27, 1:00;
Wed June 28, 3:30;
Thurs June 29, 6:00