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    Oct 23, 2016 @1:00 pm - 6:00 pm

    Social Justice and Film Showcase

    The Syracuse Int’l Film Fest. and Le Moyne’s Film Program present the annual Social Justice and Film Showcase.

    1 p.m. Ghost Town to Havana (2015, USA/CUBA, documentary, 86 minutes) by SIFF Bassel Shehade Award for Social Justice winner Eugene Corr

    A film about baseball. A story of mentorship and everyday heroism in tough circumstances. An inner city coach's son, estranged in his youth from his father, spends five years on ball fields in inner city Oakland and Havana, following the lives of two extraordinary youth baseball coaches, Roscoe in Oakland and Nicolas in Havana. The coaches meet on videotape and two years of red tape later, Coach Roscoe and nine Oakland players travel to Havana to play Coach Nicolas' team. For one week, the players and coaches eat, dance, swim, argue and play baseball together. But when the parent of an Oakland player is murdered back home, it brings back the inescapable reality and challenges of life in an American inner city.

    3:15 p.m.

    Deadlock (2016, Armenia, documentary, 115 minutes) by Harutyun Khachatrya (many festival awards winner, including the Paris Film Festival, Karlovy Vary International Film Festival, Torino Film Festival, and Fribourg International Film Festival)

    Deadlock is the second installment in the five-documentary film series dedicated to the Armenian diaspora by filmmaker Harutyun Khachatryan. The film’s main character is a longtime friend of the director. After having obtained a green card for the United States, he leaves his homeland to search for a brighter future in the land of the free and the brave. Unfortunately, the U.S. is not what it pretends to be through advertisement and pop culture. A world dominated by the rule of profit constantly crushes hopes and lives. Working in a car yard and barely scraping by to survive on a daily basis, he starts longing for his birthplace. Even though he yearns to go back to Armenia and works relentlessly and tirelessly, he cannot afford it. Deadlock is a painful musing on exile and disillusionment, as well as a political inquiry into what it means to live in a capitalist country. Khachatryan’s approach is a deeply humanistic one and his sensitive observational way of filming allows the material to resonate and reverberate in all its poetic and political complexity.

    Free with a Le Moyne student ID.
    Location : W. Carroll Coyne Center for the Performing Arts
    Category : Film Screening