MONTREAL/November 22, 2005—
On Thursday, November 24, Concordia's Peace and Conflict Resolution lecture series will present the film O Herói directed by Zèzè Gamboa.
It is part of the sub-series Exploring Conflict and Its Resolution on the African Continent through Film. The film will be shown at 8:30 p.m. in room H- 937 in the Henry F. Hall Building (1455 de Maisonneuve Blvd. West).
O Herói (The Hero) is the story of Angola, a nation torn apart by forty years of uninterrupted war, and now trying imperfectly but courageously to piece itself back together. It is also the story of a city, Luanda, like so many in the Third World, trying to absorb the millions of people displaced by civil strife and global economic change. After a thirteen year national liberation struggle against the Portuguese colonialists ended with independence in 1975, Angola plunged immediately into a brutal civil war. The national Angola's People Liberation Movement (MPLA) government, backed initially by Cuba and the Soviet Union, and the UNITA rebels, supported by the U.S. and the South African apartheid regime, remained locked in conflict until 2003, long after the end of the Cold War itself.
For more information about this event, contact Dr. Andrew Ivaska at (514) 848-2424 ext. 2419, or Dr. Leander Schneider at (514)848-2424, ext. 5601. For more information about the Peace and Conflict Resolution Academic Lecture Series, visit http://peace.concordia.ca
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Tanya Churchmuch
Senior Media Relations Advisor
Concordia University
