“Não discutimos Deus e a virtude”/ “Não discutimos a Pátria e a sua história”/”Não discutimos a Autoridade e o seu prestígio”. A partir do célebre discurso de Salazar feito em 1936 o filme procura de forma didáctica mostrar os alicerces do regime fascista durante os 48 anos da sua existência até ao 25 de Abril de 1974. O funcionamento da sociedade Portuguesa e a sua história desde 1910, a ideologia salazarista, o apoio da Igreja, a repressão e a guerra colonial até à libertação de Abril são os temas principais.
Realizador: Rui Simões
Ano: 1976
País: Portugal
YOU MUST BECOME CALIGARI
Francis, a young man, recalls in his memory the horrible experiences he and his fiancée Jane recently went through. Francis and his friend Alan visit The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari, an exhibit where the mysterious doctor shows the somnambulist Cesare, and awakens him for some moments from his death-like sleep.
The forbidden education (Spanish title La Educación Prohibida) is an independent film released in 2012. It describes a variety of alternative education practices and unconventional schools in Latin America and Spain, and includes educational approaches such as popular culture, the Montessori system, progressive education the Valntorf education, at home teaching. It is the first film in Spanish funded by the public
Behind the Mask is a passionate documentary with a definite agenda that offers a definite perspective on why many members of the ALF are willing to break the law, spend time in prison and even risk their lives to stop the abuse of animals. Some of the animal testing and most of the animal cruelty is illegal but little is done to stop the abuse and enforcement agencies don’t pursue cases. Supposedly many Universities get grants from drug and cosmetic manufacturing companies to do animal testing and a lot of the work/ animal testing is performed by students. Some of the testing is inhumane—maybe all of it. A lot of it is illegal.
Among those interviewed in the film: Ingrid Newkirk, co-founder of People for the Treatment of Animals (PETA); Dr. Steve Best, professor at the University of Texas El Paso; Ronnie Lee, founder of the Animal Liberation Front; Rod Coronado, former member of the Animal Liberation Front; Keith Mann, former member of the Animal Liberation Front in England; John Feldman, singer for the popular band Goldfinger who also discovered and produced The USED; Jerry Vlasak, a doctor in Los Angeles and member of the North American Animal Liberation Press Office; Paul Watson, founder of Sea Shepherd Conservation Society; Chris Derose, founder of the non-profit Last Chance for Animals, and several others including some sympathetic media reporters and Bill Mahr.
Several of the people interviewed explain that most change happens because enough attention is created, through actions that include civil disobedience, protests and actions that break the law. Every social justice movement that has been successful has had members willing to break the law. The Animal Liberation Front is considered one of the most dangerous domestic terrorist extremist group in the U.S. even though they are interested in saving and helping animals, and they have not physically harmed any people through any of their actions.
The activists interviewed are passionate and dedicated to their cause of saving animals from cruel and inhumane abuse. If you don’t know much about the ALF, and what they do, and are concerned about animal rights you should watch this documentary.