Movie

YOL
Turkey, Yilmaz Güney/Serif Gören, 1982

Imprisoned in 1974 with a sentence of 24 years, director Güney continued to write scripts, directed by others, while still in prison. In 1981 he escaped to Switzerland, where he edited Yol, which had been filmed by a collaborator while he was still in prison. Yol ( e Road) recounts the stories of five prisoners on leave as they travel to remote areas of Turkey. Each one returns to a world dominated by feudal tradition where family “honor” imposes obligations on the men, all revolving around the oppression of women who have “dishonored” the family.

The speaker for Yol will be Professor Nebahat Avcioglu of the Hunter College Art department.

Light food and drink provided.

(The theme for LGTM this academic year is "Contesting Islamophobia. Click here for PDF of a poster with a full calendar of 2012-13 screenings. Read more about the Labor Goes to the Movies film series.)

PSC-CUNY Union Hall
61 Broadway
16th Floor
New York

Held at a special location in October and November: CUNY Center for Worker Education, 25 Broadway, 7th Floor.

BAB-EL-OUED CITY
Algeria, Merzak Allouache, 1994

Winner of the International Critics’ Prize at Cannes and the grand prize at the 1994 Arab Film Festival in Paris, the film relates the story of a young man,Boualem, in the Bab el-Oued neighborhood of Algiers, shortly after riots in 1988.

(The theme for LGTM this academic year is "Contesting Islamophobia. Click here for PDF of a poster with a full calendar of 2012-13 screenings. Read more about the Labor Goes to the Movies film series.)

Held at a special location in October and November: CUNY Center for Worker Education, 25 Broadway, 7th Floor.

Nights of the Jackals
Syria, Abdellatif Abdelhamid, 1989

Set in Syria during the 1967 Israel-Arab war, a
peasant father struggles to assert his patriarchal
authority as family and community bonds begin
to unravel.

Dr. Christopher Stone of Hunter College's Arabic Program and the Middle East Studies program at CUNY Graduate Center will be the guest speaker.

Light food and drink provided.

Join us for the first film in 2012-2013 Labor Goes to the Movies series!

A first film by Palestinian-American director Cherien Dabis, Roger Ebert wrote that "Amreeka is a heartwarming film, not a political dirge.”

Light food and drink provided.

Charulata (Satyajit Ray, India, 1964)

The Organizer (Mario Monicelli, Italy, 1963)

Fast Times at Ridgemont High (Amy Heckerling, USA, 1982)

NightJohn (Charles Burnett, USA, 1996)

Jonah who will be 25 in the year 2000 (Alain Tanner, Switzerland, 1976)

This film looks forward to the possibilities of
this, our new millennium, from out of the shadows of May '68. A group of young people in and around Geneva tries to pick up the pieces of their
hopes in the wake of the 'clampdown' and corporate retrenchment.
Alain Tanner's cinematic channeling of the utopian energies playing through the everyday lives of post-60s activists, and in their classrooms, too.

High School (1968) 75 min. Frederick Wiseman
Cited by the Library of Congress as a National Treasure, Wiseman’s documentary of a Philadelphia high school quietly presents the effects of institutional education and the inevitable clash of generations. The themes and situations are specific to the late 1960’s and its social and political turmoil, and yet they resonate with anyone who has ever been to high school.