Spring 2012 Films
March 26, 2012
Hell and Back Again
Hell and Back Again intertwines the extraordinary drama of war and, for a generation of soldiers, the no less shocking experience of returning home.Embedded with the US Marines Echo Company in Afghanistan, filmmaker and photojournalist Danfung Dennis documents military violence with visceral immediacy. After a major battle in 2009, Dennis turns his attention to Sergeant Nathan Harris of the Echo Company as he returns home to North Carolina with life-threatening injuries sustained in Afghanistan. With the love and support of his wife, Ashley, Harris struggles to overcome the difficulties of transitioning back to civilian life, dealing with intense physical pain, psychological dislocation, and chemical dependency. Masterfully contrasting the intensity of the frontline with the unsettling normalcy of home, Hell and Back Again lays bare the true cost of war.
Part of the Port Jefferson Documentary Film SeriesTickets: $5.00. Free admission for SB students.
Monday, March 26, 2012 at 7pm in the Wang Center Theater
April 9, 2012
Dolphin Boy
In an Arab village in the north of Israel, a teenage boy named Morad suffers a violent attack and becomes disconnected and withdrawn. As a last resort before being committed to a psychiatric hospital, he is taken by his devoted father to Eilat for treatment with dolphins. Morad begins to speak again after months of silence, but erases his past memories and connections and refuses to return to his mother in his home village. A powerful documentary about a soul and spirit devasted by human violence and healed by the power of nature and love, Dolphin Boy follows Morad and his family over the course of four years.
With special guest speaker Judith Manassen-Ramon, producer of
Part of the Port Jefferson Documentary Film Series
Tickets: $5.00. Free admission for SB students.
Monday, April 9, 2012 at 7pm in the Wang Center Theater
