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UN
Film Week
In celebration
of the United Nations Week, the Cultural Center of the
Philippines (CCP) and the Foundation for the Support of
the United Nations in cooperation with the Manila Tourism
and Cultural Affairs Bureau, City Government of Manila
present the United Nations Film Week at the CCP
Tanghalang Manuel Conde from October 22-25, 2002.
Films from Israel, Australia, and Russia will be shown.
The controversial and critically acclaimed Late Marriage,
which was not shown at the Israeli Film Festival in
Makati due to censorship issues, opens the UN Film Week
on October 22.
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(Israel) Late Marriage on October 22, 6:30 p.m.
The film
received awards and accolades from Cannes, Greece, Spain,
London, Telluride, Vancouver and Toronto film festivals.
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(Israel) Yana’s Friends on October 22, 4. p.m.
Yana, a young
beautiful and pregnant immigration from Russia, arrives
in tel Aviv and is threatened by poison-gas missile
attack. Without her husband by her side, she is forced to
seek shelter in the only sealed room in the house, in
close contact with her irresistibly charming roommate
Eli.
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(Peru) Courage on October 23, 4 p.m.
A true story based
on the last months in the life of Maria Elena Mayono,
grassroots leader of a women’s organization in a
slum outside of Lima.
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Alias la Gringa on October 23, 6:30 p.m.
The story of a thief
who puts his life at risk, to pay back a favor to friend. La Gringa escapes from jail and is about
to leave the country with his wife. But he is captured by
police and is sent to an island transformed into a prison
of maximum security. In this island, he meets a Professor
inmate accused of terrorism.
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(Australia) Malcolm on October 24, 6:30 p.m.
The film
was Australia’s most popular film at the Cannes Film
Festival the year it was released.
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(Russia) Ruslan Ludmila on October 25, 4 p.m.
Based on the novel
of Alexander Pushkin
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Barbers from Siberia on October 25, 6:30 p.m.
Manila
Bulletin/October 19, 2002
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