16 Timbuktu Director: Abderrahmane Sissako (97 minutes)Kidane, a cattle herder and his family, live peacefully not far from the Malian city of Timbuktu. In town the people suffer, powerless from the regime of terror imposed by the Jihadists who are determined to control their faith. Although Kidane and his family have been spared the chaos in Timbuktu their destiny changes suddenly. Nominated for an Academy Award as Best Foreign Language Film 2015. Presented in partnership with cIneIMAGINE.

This Sundance Film Festival award-winning film is based on Professor Robert Reich’s best-selling book, “Aftershocks, The Next Economy and America’s Future”. It is a passionate argument on behalf of the middle class. Professor Reich uses humour and a wide array of facts to explain how globalization, technology, and deregulation are the reasons for the economic inequality affecting each and every one of us.

17 Inequality for All Director: Jacob Kornbluth (90 minutes)

Half Of A Yellow Sun, an Academy Award nominee for Best Actor, the film was previewed at both the BFI London Film Festival and TIFF Toronto Film Festival. This adaptation of Chimamanda Ngozi Acichies’s novel is an extraordinary movie about two sisters who have returned home to Nigeria in 1960 after studying abroad. Their lives soon diverge in different paths as the beginnings of a civil war break out and both women join the fight to establish an independent republic.

18 Half Of A Yellow Sun Director: Biyi Bandele (111 minutes)

This film exposes Canada’s secret trials and brilliantly captures the tragic stories of five Muslim men detained under the Canadian Government’s security certificates, an immigration process that allows the indefinite jailing of non-citizens without charge – unless they agree to be deported to countries where they face serious risk of torture. Amnesty International and hotDOCS awards. Panel discussion with Sophie Harkat from Ottawa and Dr. Maureen Duffy from Calgary after the screening.

19 The Secret Trial 5 Director: Amar Wala (84 minutes)

Buddhist monk, Lobsang Phuntsok, leaves his life as a spiritual leader in the U.S. and returns to the region of his birth where he creates a unique community in the foothills of the Himalayas. Lobsang has wrestled his own unhappy childhood into an opportunity for 85 orphaned and neglected children to become part of a loving and compassionate family. Within the community Tashi Dralma is especially vulnerable as she struggles with her saddest memories.

20 Tashi and the Monk Director: Andrew Hinton (75 minutes)

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March 16 - 20, 2015 at 7:00 p.m.Lethbridge Public Library

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