DORIS DUKE THEATRE
French director Claude Lelouch told his "September 11" story through the life of a deaf woman breaking up with her boyfriend. The woman's prayer for a reconciliatory miracle is answered when the man comes back to her covered in dust after the Twin Towers collapse.
Doris Duke Theatre
offers films tackling
global issues
A film capturing the views of 11 directors from different countries and countries in reaction to the tragedies of Sept. 11, 2001, opens the Doris Duke Theatre fall season of films "provocative and passionate."
Here is the list of films through the end of the month:
"September 11": Eleven international directors offer their viewpoints on the 9/11 tragedies in accordance with their point of view: political, violent, disturbing, abstract, opinionated, angered or forgiving.
The directors include Sean Penn, Mira Nair, Idrissa Ouedraogo, Shohei Imamura, Youssef Chahine and others, to create what Time magazine has described as "a Molotov cocktail of storytelling, journalism, personal essay and agitprop about the country that other people love, envy, resent."
Debuting two years after suicide hijackers killed more than 3,000 people and brought down New York's World Trade Center towers, some of the short films have been accused of anti-Americanism, linking U.S. foreign policy to violence in the Middle East. Others suggest Americans have forgotten pain and poverty elsewhere in the world.
In various languages with English subtitles, 2003. Playing at 7:30 p.m. today and tomorrow.
"Balseros" (Cuban rafters): In 1994 a team of public TV reporters filmed seven Cuban families in the days just before their risky venture at sea in homemade rafts to U.S. shores. When the balseros were finally allowed into the United States, the film crew went with them to a string of cities.
Seven years later, the crew revisits them to discover the immigrants' destinies. Directed by Carles Bosch and Josep Domenech, Spain, 2002. Plays 1 and 7:30 p.m. Wednesday and 7:30 p.m. next Monday and Sept. 16.
"The Day I Will Never Forget": From the director of "Divorce Iranian Style" and "Runaway," this is a gripping feature documentary examining the practice of female genital mutilation in Kenya and the pioneering African women who are reversing the tradition.
Profiled are an inspiring group of runaway girls who seek a court injunction to stop their parents from forcing them to go through with the practice. Winner of dozens of awards worldwide; immensely powerful and ultimately hopeful. Directed by Kim Longinotto, Great Britain, 2003. In Somali, Swahili, Masaai and Kalenjin with English subtitles. Playing at 4 p.m. Sept. 21 and 7:30 p.m. Sept. 22 and 23.
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