The Delta International Film and Video Festival
 

2009 Delta International Film and Video Festival

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Thursday April 2 - Friday April 3, 2009
Delta State University, Cleveland, Mississippi

Program #2 | Friday, April 3 3:30 | Running Time: 83:09 minutes

Location for all Screenings: the Recital Hall at the Bologna Performing Arts Center, Delta State University, Cleveland Mississippi

ROADS

Roads (Israel; 22:00; 2007)
Director: Lior Geller
Thirteen-year-old Ismayil searches for a new life for him and his younger brother outside of the Arab drug slums of the city of Lod. When a traumatized Israeli ex-soldier comes to the neighborhood looking for drugs in escape of his own reality, an unusual opportunity arises.

eye witness war

Eye-Witness-War (USA; 15:00; 2008)
Director: Dave Johnson
This film is an intimate and lyrical portrait of Robert J. Galbraith’s experience as a freelance photojournalist, and eyewitness accounts of his recent travels to cover the perils of war. It reveals Robert’s personal philosophies, political agenda, and the repercussions of being a freelance war photojournalist.

memorize-you-saw-it (USA; 46:09; 2008)
Director: Jon Betz
A college student discovers the complications of short term aid-work when he interns with a small U.S. aid agency and travels to Uganda to live at a rural orphanage alongside former-child soldiers and AIDS orphans in the aftermath of a 20-year civil war.

* Best Student Documentary