Movies: Mark Achbar

  • 1996
    Bitter Paradise: The Sell-out of East Timor

    Bitter Paradise: The Sell-out of East Timor (1996)

    Bitter Paradise: The Sell-out of East Timor

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    The political journey of Canadian photographer Elaine Brière from the villages of East Timor to the halls of the United Nations in an effort to find out Ottawa's rational for abandoning the tiny nation of East Timor to corporate interests in Indonesi...

    Bitter Paradise: The Sell-out of East Timor
  • 1986
    There Is a Rally

    There Is a Rally (1986)

    There Is a Rally

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    A visual interpretation of the massive disarmament rally held in New York City on June 12, 1982. With huge rallies held simultaneously around the world, people gathered together on this day at the height of the Regan-era nuclear standoff with the Sov...

    There Is a Rally
  • 2000
    Two Brides and a Scalpel: Diary of a Lesbian Marriage

    Two Brides and a Scalpel: Diary of a Lesbian Marriage (2000)

    Two Brides and a Scalpel: Diary of a Lesbian Marriage

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    When Linda, an outspoken lesbian psychotherapist, decided that George, a bulldozer-driving transsexual, was the woman for her, Two Brides and a Scalpel: Diary of a Lesbian Marriage was born. Directed and produced by Vancouver-based Mark Achbar, the v...

    Two Brides and a Scalpel: Diary of a Lesbian Marriage