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                                        NEWSLETTER  OF THE POLITICAL FILM 
SOCIETY, INC                                                                  
                                                                    March 
1,  2016

POLITICAL  FILM SOCIETY ANNOUNCES BEST FILMS OF 2015 
During 2015 members of the  Political Film Society, selecting from a 
diverse set of nominated films, picked  winning films that were equally as 
diverse: 
For the film that best  raised consciousness about the need for DEMOCRACY, 
the choice  was Jimmy’s Hall, a film directed by Ken  Loach, which showed 
how Jimmy Gralton sought to introduce social democratic values  into Ireland 
after World War I and the independence of the  country. 
For a film that best  depicted a  journalistic-style EXPOSÉ, presenting 
lesser known facts,  the winner was Experimenter, directed by Michael  
Almereyda, which depicted the life of psychologist  Stanley Milgram, who discovered 
that ordinary Americans would use  torture to please an authority figure. 
For the best film on HUMAN RIGHTS, the voters  selected Suffragette, 
directed by Sarah  Gavron, which focused on 1912, when the fight for women’s  
rights escalated to include dynamite, mass arrests, fasting, forced  feeding in 
prison, and martyrdom. 
The best film presenting PEACE as the way to resolve conflicts  instead of 
violence, the awards goes to Timbuktu, directed by Abderrahmane  Sissako, 
which showed the imperialism of Islamic  jihadists taking over a peaceful 
village in Africa with firearms and  imposing strict rule that produced chaos. 
Directors of the four films  will now receive award  certificates.

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