"Aliker" Screening, Contemporary Francophone Caribbean Film Festi Join us for the second film in the contemporary Francophone Caribbean Film Festival, Power, Freedom and Madness. "Aliker," directed by Guy Deslauriers, narrates the story of Andre Aliker, a Martinican journalist who wrote for Justice, the newspaper of the Martinican Communist Party. MONDAY, FEB. 25, IMAGES CINEMA. MORE: http://web.williams.edu/messages/show.php?id=23513 from Jane Canova, Ctr-ForeignLangs,Lit&Culture

Andre Aliker, a militant and a journalist, became widely known throughout Martinique as a champion of journalism as a form of free expression and as the means for the pursuit of the truth in the colonial context of Martinique in the 1930s. The film is based on a script by well-known Martinican novelist Patrick Chamoiseau and stars Stomy Bugsy, the Cape Verde-born hip-hop singer/composer. Professor Pieprzak will introduce tonight's film. Admission is free. The last and final film, "Moloch Tropical," will be shown on Monday, March 4. See http://cflang.williams.edu for more information. This event is organized by Professors Katarzyna Pieprzak and Neil Roberts with generous support from the Center for Foreign Languages, Literatures, and Cultures, the W. Ford Schumann '50 Program for Democratic Studies, the Departments of History, Political Science, and Romance Languages, the Davis Center, and the Programs in Africana Studies, International Studies and Leadership Studies.