UWM Union Theatre
2007 Milwaukee Asian Film Festival
Friday, March 30 – Thursday, April 5
7pm ** FREE **
Drug Story
(Luu Hong Sôn , Vietnam , 20 min., Video, 1999)
In the mountains of Lai Chau in northwest Vietnam lives a small community of army veterans, ex-farmers, mothers, grandparents and children. They all use opium - including the children - on a regular basis. Impervious to government programs that discourage the drug's consumption, they have no existence outside of foraging for the food and scraps of firewood they trade for a fix, then getting high in their cave homes.
Shown with
Fear and Hope in Cambodia
(Isabelle Abric , Cambodia, 56 min., Video, 1993)
Fear and Hope in Cambodia chronicles Cambodia 's recent history, from the Paris Peace Agreement to the elections and finally the signing of a new Constitution. Written and narrated by well-known British journalist and author William Shawcross , the film includes previously unseen footage of massacres, intimidation, and human rights abuses.
