Fambul Tok
Directed by: Sara Terry
Documentary | 2011 | 1hr 22m
California

www.fambultok.com/
About the Film: Victims and perpetrators of Sierra Leone's brutal civil war come together for the first time in an unprecedented program of tradition-based truth-telling and forgiveness ceremonies. Through reviving their ancient practice of fambul tok (family talk), Sierra Leoneans are building sustainalbe peace at the grass-roots level -- succeeding where the international community's post-conflict efforts failed. Filled with lessons for the West, this film explores the depths of a culture that believes that true justice lies in redemption and healing for individuals -- and that forgiveness is the surest path to restoring dignity and building strong communities.

Screening Times @ Victory Fire House  with "Volta"
9:00PM Wednesday, June 15
7:00PM Friday, June 17

About the Director: “Fambul Tok” is Sara Terry’s first feature-length documentary. A former, award-winning reporter for the Christian Science Monitor (and founding member of Monitor Radio, the Monitor’s public radio program), Sara Terry made a mid-career transition into photojournalism and documentary photography in the late 1990s. The focus of her work since then has been in post-conflict societies. Her long-term project about the aftermath of war in Bosnia -- “Aftermath: Bosnia’s Long Road to Peace” -- was published in September 2005 by Channel Photographics, and was chosen as one of the best books of the year by PDN (Photo District News). Her work has been widely published and exhibited at such venues as the United Nations, Moving Walls/Open Society, the Museum of Photography in Antwerp, and the Leica Gallery in Solms, Germany. She is the founder of The Aftermath Project (www.theaftermathproject.org) a non-profit grant program that helps photographers cover the aftermath of conflict, and builds educational outreach and partnerships around the understanding that “war is only half the story.” She is currently in production on her second documentary, “FOLK,” about three singersongwriters trying to make it in the changing sub-culture of American folk music. She is also the frequent guest host of To the Point, and Left, Right and Center – public radio shows produced by KCRW, Santa Monica, and distributed to stations nation-wide by Public Radio International.