GRATUIT. Bienvenue à toutes et tous!

24 mai: Hibakusha at the End of the World (2003) à 18h. (en anglais, arabe, et japonais avec sous-titres en anglais)

25 mai: Ashes to Honey (2010) à 18h. (en japonais avec sous-titres en anglais et français)

Both events will take place on the campus of McGill University in the Leacock Building, Room 219 starting at 6pm.

Both events are free, and everyone is welcome!

Hitomi Kamanaka, déjà auteur d’un film sur les dangers du nucléaire et l’irradiation atmosphérique avec Hibakusha - At the End of the World (2003), s’était attachée à décrire la lutte de l'île Iwaishima contre la constuction d'une centrale nucléaire dans Ashes to Honey (2010).

Ne manquez pas cet événement spécial avec une militante qui a déjà dit pluseiurs fois au Japon que le nucléaire provoque inévitablement des catastrophes majeures.

"Kamanaka's pursuit of the issue of nuclear power over a dozen year has resulted in three films to date. The first, Hibakusha at the End of the World (2003), followed the ravages of radiation from Iraq (depleted uranium contamination following the Persian Gulf War) to Hanford (downwinders of the plutonium factory) to Hiroshima and Nagasaki. The second, Rokkasho Rhapsody (2006), explored both the health effects of radiation and the social rifts created by the siting of a nuclear reprocessing plant in northern Japan. Her most recent work, Ashes to Honey: Toward a Sustainable Future (2010), depicts the nearly three-decades' long struggle by fishermen on an island in western Japan to block the construction of a nuclear power plant, juxtaposed with a look at communities successfully converting to renewables in Sweden." - Norma Field (http://japanfocus.org/-Kamanaka-Hitomi/3524)

The Department of East Asian Studies at McGill is sponsoring two nights with anti-nuclear activist and filmmaker Hitomi Kamanaka. On May 24 and May 25, screenings of Kamanaka's films will be followed by audience discussions with the filmmaker.

On Tuesday, May 24, there will be a screening of Hibakusha at the End of the World. (English)

Wednesday, May 25 will be the Canadian premiere of Ashes to Honey. (English and French)

Both events will take place on the campus of McGill University in the Leacock Building, Room 219 starting at 6pm.

Both events are free, and everyone is welcome!