Sun May 27 | 2:00 pm | VIFC

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Four beautiful, artistic films reminding us of the ugliness of violence and the immorality of war, accompanied by the music video One Gun (Artist: 54-40, Canada, 1987), presented as part of our Rockumentary series.

Even if she had been a criminal…/Eût-elle été criminelle…

Director: Jean-Gabriel Périot, France, 2006, 9 minutes
In only minutes, this stunning short film shows the diverse impacts of the
WW II armistice –  the faces of happy, liberated citizens, contrasted with the cruel spectacle of women being publicly taunted, beaten and having their heads shaved for allegedly engaging with Germans.

The Bleeding Heart of It/L’Éclat du mal

Director: Louise Bourque, Canada, 2005, 8 minutes
Bourque explores a psychic terrain from her own childhood, yet the film is much more than simply personal.

The Big Lie

Director: Peter Everett, Scotland, 2006, 13 minutes
One of the last surviving members of the Scottish International Brigades, Steve Fullarton tells of his experiences fighting fascism in the 1930s. His story is heartfelt, and as the images change from Spanish peasants weeping over the dead to footage of the Middle East today, Fullarton exhorts us not to believe everything that is told to us by the mass media. A point that has been made before –  humankind is ever unwilling to learn from its history and governments will always be willing to lie to their people.

No More Hiroshima, No More Nagasaki

Director: Yuki Nakamura. Producers: Yuki Nakamura, Timothy Richards, Canada, 2007, 52 minutes
World Premiere. Director and producers in attendance.
A powerful telling of the horrendous disaster of the August 1945 nuclear bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki by the United States. Hundreds of thousands of people were killed and/or died of radiation and few are still alive to tell the tale. In No More Hiroshima, No More Nagasaki we meet several survivors of that nuclear war and hear the stories of their personal experiences being on the ground in those cities while under nuclear attack. When so many countries are currently stockpiling and building nuclear weapons, the film reminds us about the reality of warfare of this magnitude.
No More Hiroshima, No More Nagasaki was made possible with 100% funding from the OMNI Television Independent Producers Initiative.

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