This Is Not A Fiction Film Festival

Schedule of Events:

12:00 PM: HOMELAND: IRAQ YEAR ZERO
$8.00 (member) ; $13.00 (general admission)

Aero Theatre | Co-presented by the Arab Film and Media Institute

‘This Is Not A Fiction’

HOMELAND: IRAQ YEAR ZERO is a monumental accomplishment, a two-part, five-and-a-half hour documentary following the life of everyday Iraqis before and after the 2003 American invasion. In February 2002 Iraqi filmmaker Abbas Fahdel traveled home from France to capture daily life as his country prepared for war. He concentrated on family and friends, including his 12-year-old nephew, Haidar, as they went about their daily lives, which had come to include planning for shortages of food, water and power. When Fahdel resumed filming in 2003, two weeks after the invasion, daily activities had come to a near standstill, the city was overrun with foreign soldiers, and many areas of Baghdad had been closed off to ordinary citizens. Fahdel’s epic yet intimate HOMELAND: IRAQ YEAR ZERO paints a compelling portrait of people struggling to survive while their civilization, dating back to ancient times, is destroyed around them.

FORMAT: DCP

DISTRIBUTOR: Kino Lorber

COUNTRY: Iraq / France

7:30 PM: HARLAN COUNTY, USA / AMERICAN DREAM
$10.00 (member) ; $15.00 (general admission)

Aero Theatre | Q&A with filmmaker Barbara Kopple

‘This Is Not A Fiction’ and and ‘Barbara Kopple: An American Cinematheque Tribute’

HARLAN COUNTY USA, 1976, Dir. Barbara Kopple, 103 Min, Janus Films, USA

Barbara Kopple’s Academy Award–winning HARLAN COUNTY USA unflinchingly documents a grueling coal miners’ strike in a small Kentucky town. With unprecedented access, Kopple and her crew captured the miners’ sometimes violent struggles with strikebreakers, local police, and company thugs. Featuring a haunting soundtrack-with legendary country and bluegrass artists Hazel Dickens, Merle Travis, Sarah Gunning, and Florence Reece-the film is a heartbreaking record of the thirteen-month struggle between a community fighting to survive and a corporation dedicated to the bottom line.

FORMAT: 35mm

HARLAN COUNTY, USA was preserved in 2004 by the Women’s Film Preservation Fund of New York Women in Film and Television and the Academy Film Archive.

AMERICAN DREAM, 1990, Dir. Barbara Kopple, 100 Min, USA/UK

An examination of the six-year labor dispute at a Minnesota meat-packing plant.

FORMAT: 35mm

AMERICAN DREAM Print courtesy of the Academy Film Archive.