Fri April 10, 2015
The Pipeline Next Door Nino Kirtadze (France, 2005)
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David faces Goliath when a village of Georgian farmers takes on the BP oil corporation in this evenhanded, character-driven documentary. Kirtadze’s verité approach captures the negotiations, breakdowns, heartbreak, and anger surrounding BP’s purchase of Georgian countryside to construct a 1,700-kilometer pipeline from Kazakhstan to the Black Sea. The villagers try for solidarity but find envy and mistrust as their way of life is crudely upended, and the BP spokespeople are caught in the unending march toward a supposedly ever-brighter future . . . A wrenching exposé of the exploitation of the common people.
• Photographed by Jacek Petrycki.
(90 mins, In Georgian, Russian, English with English subtitles, Color, DigitBeta, From Roche Productions)
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• Photographed by Jacek Petrycki.
(90 mins, In Georgian, Russian, English with English subtitles, Color, DigitBeta, From Roche Productions)
David faces Goliath when a village of Georgian farmers takes on the BP oil corporation in this evenhanded, character-driven documentary. Kirtadze’s verité approach captures the negotiations, breakdowns, heartbreak, and anger surrounding BP’s purchase of Georgian countryside to construct a 1,700-kilometer pipeline from Kazakhstan to the Black Sea. The villagers try for solidarity but find envy and mistrust as their way of life is crudely upended, and the BP spokespeople are caught in the unending march toward a supposedly ever-brighter future . . . A wrenching exposé of the exploitation of the common people.
• Photographed by Jacek Petrycki.
(90 mins, In Georgian, Russian, English with English subtitles, Color, DigitBeta, From Roche Productions)
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• Photographed by Jacek Petrycki.
(90 mins, In Georgian, Russian, English with English subtitles, Color, DigitBeta, From Roche Productions)
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2575 Bancroft Way, Berkeley, CA 94720
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