Armageddon of the 21st century
In this 21st century, when in every place every person easily advocate love, peace and environmental protection, atrocities are happening in reality. People become victims unobserved. It must be the true way not to avert our eyes from these facts. All three films are shown for the first time in Japan and only seen in Kanazawa.
Program
"Señorita Extraviada"
English tittle:"Missing Young Woman
2001/Mexico/76min./color/DVD/Spanish/Japanese subtitles
Director:Lourdes Portillo
As a result of NAFTA(North American Free Trade Agreement) in the early 1990s, many American companies advanced into Ciudad Juárez, a border town in Mexico. Poor women, from all over the country, work for these factories as a cheap labor. One day they disappeared and were found dead in the desert. The victims are now more than hundred but it remains unsolved. What is happening in this town?
"Ghosts of Abu Ghraib"
2007/America/78min./color/DVD/
English,Arabic/Japanese subtittles
Director:Rory Kennedy
This shocking documentary describes the large-scale Iraqi prisoner abuse case, which shook the world, by United States Armed Forces at Abu Ghraib prison with the testimonies of eyewitnesses, victims and assailants. The assailants who did such atrocities were just ordinary people in the mainland America. Why human beings can be so cruel to human beings?
"Shadow Company"
2006/Canada/86min./color/DVD/English/Japanese subtittles
Director:Nick Bicanic, Jason Bourque
In the 21st century, wars became business as the rapid privatization. The duties cover various work, such as sending combatants to battlefields as temporary personnel service, guarding the regular army soldiers and training. It is said that the market scale is over one hundred billion dollars. What is the actual circumstances of PMC(Private Military Company) that is highly systematized and divided from hired soldiers?