PROGRAM DETAILS

Fig Trees

Isabel Bader
Thu May 21 9:30pm


	Tickets are STILL AVAILABLE for this screening
	This program has 2 FILMS.

Secret Weapons

Negotiating between his queer and Aboriginal identities, Adam Garnet Jones reflects upon growing up in fear of AIDS and upon the lasting effects of colonization in his community.

THIS PROGRAM IS RATED 14A Language: English

From our perennial favourite, John Greyson, and from composer David Wall, comes a video opera/documentary that on its premiere in Berlin became an award-winning hit. Blending scathing critique with humour and spellbinding visuals, the film is based on the opera Four Saints In Three Acts(1934) by Gertrude Stein and Virgil Thomson.

Toronto´s Tim McCaskell (founding member of AIDS Action Now) and Zackie Achmat (founder of Treatment Action Campaign) of South Africa are the central subjects of this important work. Through their fearless and continuing activism, they ensure that the fate of prevention and treatment is not left in the hands of frustratingly ineffective governments and mind-blowingly greedy corporations. From Bush to Bono, no one escapes Greyson´s critical eye. The brunt of the critique is aimed at the major pharmaceutical companies whose profit motives outweigh the value of human lives in the developing world.

The most visually and politically daring work at this year´s festival, Fig Trees is not easy to categorize. Art cinema, documentary and opera meld in a complex and compelling essay on the continuing fight for treatment and justice for people living with AIDS everywhere.

BEST DOCUMENTARY/ESSAY TEDDY AWARD (BERLIN INTERNATIONAL FILM FESTIVAL)

DIRECTOR IN ATTENDANCE Language: English