A low-budget labor of love for documentary filmmakers Carole and Richard Rifkind, THE VENETIAN DILEMMA takes a look at the ancient city of Venice, Italy. Venetian Dilemma video The most commonly known fact about Venice is that it is slowly being engulfed by the waterways that make the city such a spectacular sight to behold. In their film, the Rifkind's identify a threat to the city that is lesser known, but equal in magnitude to the terrible natural disaster that threatens to completely erode the streets ...See Full Description
The decision by the United Nations to maintain only a minimal military presence in Rwanda in 1994 proved fatal for the native Tutsi people. As the UN floundered, some 800,000 Tutsis perished at the hands of powerful Hutu guerillas, who wreaked havoc on the country. A cinematic take on these calamitous events was provided by 2004's HOTEL RWANDA, which dramatized the story of a secret Tutsi refuge camp constructed by brave hotel manager Paul Rusesabagina. A much darker side to the tale unfolds in SHAKE HANDS WITH THE DEVIL, with filmmaker Peter Raymont constructing a fascinating documentary about Roméo Dallaire, the UN general in charge of the nominal UN military effort in Rwanda. Although drawing on footage from 1994, which depicts some horrific scenes of bloodshed, the most significant portion of Raymont's film sees Dallaire returning to Rwanda some 10 years after the atrocities occurred. Once there, he is given an unforgettable tour of the country, and explains how he tried, and failed, to coax the UN into providing him with enough soldiers to prevent the genocide which followed. A crestfallen man who appears to have a genuine love for Rwanda, Raymont closely follows Dallaire's memoir (entitled SHAKE HANDS WITH THE DEVIL: THE FAILURE OF HUMANITY IN RWANDA), leading to a highly sympathetic depiction of a once-great military man. Dallaire confesses that his post-Rwandan life has been littered with suicidal thoughts and generous doses of anti-depressants--clearly he still believes he could have prevented this terrible event from happening. Raymont's film is a compassionate, eye-opening summation of a life forever tainted by a hugely regrettable experience.
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In 1972 Belfast, Ireland, a Catholic family moves into a rowdy housing estate where they are constantly surrounded by chaos and violence--much of it driven by the troubled state of affairs between the IRA and the British Government. However, when ...
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