NOVEMBER 13

November 13, 6 pm
ARMS READY | Do zbraně         
Barbora Chalupová, 2016, Czech with English subtitles, 40 min.

Why do Czech citizens want to possess firearms and how easy are they to acquire? Four young women discuss the phenomenon of the legal and illegal possession of firearms in a wager in which each of them tries to obtain a deadly weapon without owning a license. Buying a gun from a secret website or printing one on a 3D printer proves relatively easy. In the first part of the film, the director makes creative use of a web interface on which reports and interviews with people connected with guns are placed. The documentary then takes viewers on an adventure in which the protagonists head to the dark corners of physical and electronic reality. ~ One World Film Festival  

A Q&A with the director follows the screening.

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November 13, 7 pm
NORMAL AUTISTIC FILM | Normální autistický film

NOVEMBER 14

November 14, 5:30 pm              
LOST IN LEBANON               
Directed by Georgia and Sophia Scott, 2016, in Arabic and English w/English subtitles, 81 min.     

Lebanon is a country of barely five million inhabitants, where more than a million Syrian refugees have found refuge. Fearing that the situation would spiral out of control, in 2015 the Lebanese government began tightening its asylum policy. As a result of new visa restrictions, some 80% of Syrians found themselves in the position of illegal migrants. The film interweaves four stories showing the extreme situations that people who are denied the right to a home are exposed to. What opportunities do fleeing Syrians have left when they cannot go back and neighboring countries Jordan, Turkey and Lebanon cannot afford to take on hundreds of thousands of newcomers? ~One World Film Festival

A reception with light refreshments follows the screening.

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