Friday, October 31, 2025

Free film screening includes two short films on the Lumads

La Terra The LandTo mark the UN International Year of Soils

Date/Day: tomorrow, Saturday 31 October 2015, 6pm

Place: Italian Forum Cultural Centre, 23 Norton Street, Leichhardt, NSW 2040                                     [Free event/Refreshments will be served/Details on flyers attached]

RSVP

Email: filefsydney@gmail.com          Mobile: 0409 991 353

Film screening includes two short films on the Lumads (Indigenous Peoples of the southern Philippines):

DEFEND TALAINGOD: THE LUMADS QUEST FOR JUSTICE (10’ 00”)

Producers and Directors: Kilab Multimedia
The Indigenous people of Talaingod in Mindanao, Philippines pushed out of their ancestral lands in the mountains. Personal stories and footage tell of their defence from the incursions of a logging company. Army units occupy their lands committing human rights violations and forcing evacuations.

FACE TO FACE: WOMAN CHIEFTAIN SLAMS POLITICIAN (5’ 03”)

Producers and Directors: Kilab Multimedia
Bae Bibiyaon is proud Indigenous woman elder and teacher of a community forced to evacuate their ancestral land, due to military and paramilitary operations. Politician Nancy Gatamco supports an attempt to force the evacuees out of their refuge and Bae Bibiyaon confronts her with anger.

Download the PDF file of Programma FFF containing all the films to be screened.

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