Life Under Taliban Rule
A friend and founder of Mountain Shadow Film Society, John Bennison, wrote to let me know he has booked the film "The Swallows of Kabul". This is an animated film described as follows;
“Two married couples in Kabul, living under the callous rule of the Afghan Taliban, find their destinies intertwined in this beautiful animated feature, based on the eponymous international bestseller. Rendered in hand-drawn, delicate watercolors, The Swallows of Kabul has its weighty subject matter leavened by keen detail. The film’s artistry, along with its sympathetically drawn characters, turns the story of four individuals linked by their extraordinary circumstances into a universal tale of endurance and survival." ( 82 min. French, with English subtitles).
There are five showings in November in the Walnut Creek library located at 1644 North Broadway;
Friday, Nov. 8th - 7:30 PM
Saturday, NOv. 9th - 4:30 PM & 7:30 PM
Saturday, Nov. 16th - 4:30 PM & 7:30 PM
Mountain Shadows films are often sold out. Tickets are sold to non members at the door. So, normally we'd have to take our chances.
John has offered to sell will call tickets to Trust in Education supporters in advance over the phone. Tickets are $12 plus 35 cents if paid by credit card. His phone number is 925 7876965. If he doesn't answer leave a message with your number and best time to call. The lengths to which people, like John, are willing to go to support Trust in Education's work motivates me. My batteries do run down at times.
I will give a short talk on TIE's work prior to the start of the movie. I plan to attend every showing -- not likely to watch it five times, however. After the first, I'd fall asleep and spill water on myself. Been there done that. I used to drink coke.
I understand it's a very powerful movie, one that hopefully inspires others to share our concern for and become involved in helping Afghan children and their families.
To learn about Mountain Shadow Film Society
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Finally, we're in the process of opening another computer library. It will be our tenth. More on that later. The US may be reducing its support. We're not. You're making it possible to increase ours.
Budd
