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ARCANA

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Human Rights Watch special report on Latin American prisons

Wikipedia on the Valech report on Chilean prison conditions

Chile prison statistics

Official website of the Chilean Ministry of Justice

 

BILLY THE KID

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Effects of domestic violence on children and adolescents 

History of cinema verite

 

BUDDHA'S LOST CHILDREN

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About Phra Kru Ba Neua Chai and the Golden Horse Temple

About Thai Buddhism

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Thai government criticizes governments lack of moral courage on Burma

 

DAYS OF GLORY

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The BBC on Jacques Chirac's reaction to the film 

Foreign Policy on racism in North Africa

About the Algerian war for independence

 

DEATH OF A PRESIDENT

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The Wall Street Journal on the film 

The BBC on reaction to the film 

The Hoover Institution on the ethics of assassination 

 

GOAL DREAMS

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The BBC on the Palestinian football team

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Wikipedia on proposals for a Palestinian state

 

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Center for Youth Integration in Serbia 

Save the Children in Serbia

 

IMPORT/EXPORT

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Boris Buden on the future of communication in Europe 

Looking Out from the Margins: an interview with Brian Holmes

 

IN BETWEEN DAYS

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Interactive history of the Korean American experience

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Korean American Museum

 

JESUS CAMP

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Kids in Ministry, the organization that supports the Jesus Camp  

The evangelical magazine Christianity Today 

Slate on the alleged breakup of the evangelical Christian movement 

 

MARK OF CAIN

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The Guardian on British troops in Iraqi torture scandal 

British Army website detailing operations in Iraq

The Times on British troop withdrawals (October 24, 2007)

Seymour Hersh on torture inflicted by American soldiers at Abu Ghraib prison (The New Yorker)

The Middle East Report on policies of torture 

 

PERSEPOLIS

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The BBC on the Iranian Revolution

The Iran Chamber Society on Iranian history and culture 

The Pars Times links regarding arts, history, and news from Iran

Interview with Marjane Satrapi

Persepolis and the literature of the Iranian diaspora

Cultural trauma and the specific expressivity of comics

 

THE PRISONER OR HOW I PLANNED TO KILL TONY BLAIR

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Director Michael Tucker on the film (Vanity Fair) 

The Council on Foreign Relations on Iraqi prisons

Mother Jones on the danger facing Iraqi journalists 

 

SHERRYBABY

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The US National Institute on Drug Abuse on heroin addiction 

The BBC on the effects of addiction on family

Issues in substance abuse treatment for the female convict 

 

SICKO

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More about Michael Moore

Paul Krugman on the health care crisis in America (The New York Review of Books)

A history of American health care 

The Commonwealth Fund, a private foundation advocating new directions in health care

New York Times editorial about the health care proposals of the 2008 Presidential candidates

 

TRUE NORTH

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The Independent on Tunisian sailors arrested for saving illegal immigrants (August 19 2007) 

Greenpeace on overfishing

 

WARM-UP FOR THE 3rd FREE ZONE FESTIVAL BEGINS

The 3rd Free Zone Festival is getting closer and it's time to get in the festival mood! On Wednesday, November 2, at 8 pm in REX Cultural Centre, Jevrejska street, number 16, there was the concert with DVOJAC BEZ KORMILARA - the producer-composer tandem (Dušan Petrović, saxophone, flute, bass, double bass and Boris Mladenović guitar, samplers, computer) who offer a multi-layered musical landscapes combining the music that has been prepared in advance and that which is created on the spot.



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FREE ZONE FINAL REPORT FOR 2006/2007. SEASON

All segments of the FREE ZONE programs doubled the audience attendance numbers compared to the first year. More than 15.000 cinema goers and 700.000 TV audience saw at least one film screened at FREE ZONE in 2006. and the first half of 2007.



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THE FREE ZONE SOCIAL DOCUMENTARY CAMP

From July 15th till 28th on Tara mountain in Western Serbia, the FREE ZONE has organized social documentary workshop for the high-school students from all over Serbia. During the two-week camp, high school students were taught the basics of film direction, dramaturgy, camera, editing, new media, sound recording, the history of documentary film, etc by the film professionals!



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THE THIRD FREE ZONE FILM FESTIVAL

Today, at the press conference, the third edition of the FREE ZONE Film Festival will be announced. The Festival will take place from November 9th till 14th at the cinema of Belgrade Cultural Center. During the six days 32 short and feature documentary and fiction films will be screened. The openning film will be "Persepolis", French animation feature, about childhood in Iran during the Islamist's revolution of a free spirit girl. This film won the Special Jury Award at the Cannes Film Festival.



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