Change from Flicksheet: Paul Freedman will be unable to attend this screening. Look for his visit later this spring (tentatively April 1)
Combining interviews with campaigners, commentators and people on the ground, Sand and Sorrow is one of the latest documentaries to tackle the crisis in Darfur. Filmmaker "Freedman, whose doc Rwanda: Do Scars Ever Fade? won a Peabody award, is keen to place the Darfur displacement and slaughter in perspective with the Holocaust and other genocides of the late 20th century. As Elie Wiesel points out, 'From knowledge to action, there's an abyss.' Action is hampered not just by international disregard for a distant people, but by the particular realpolitick of the post-9/11 era. When the U.S. declared war on terror, the Sudanese government responded as an ally, bedding down with the CIA in ways that practically guaranteed America would avert its eyes from problems in Sudan's capital, Khartoum. So a population is murdered, 2 million people are displaced, and the world debates whether the term 'genocide' really applies." (Variety) Narrated and co-executive produced by George Clooney. more at sandandsorrow.org Video projection
2007, color, 1 hour 38 minutes, UK