While everyone is rushing to the theaters for "District 9" and "G.I. Joe," the New York IFC is closing out their 13th Annual "DocuWeeks" film series, this Thursday, August 20. Women Make Movies presents, "The Sari Soldiers," a documentary by Julie Brigham that follows 6 female fighters on both sides of Nepal's civil war against Maoist forces. The director chronicles three years of war from the perspectives of a Maoist commander, a student activist, a woman looking for her kidnapped daughter, an Nepalese army officer and a human rights laywer.
Click here for the remaining schedule, and if you can't make these screenings, the Rubin Museum of Art is hosting a screening and discussion with the director on August 26 at 7 p.m.
If you're out in the Bay Area, "The Sari Soldiers" will be at San Francisco's Roxie Theater on September 2 at 8:30 p.m., as part of the Women Make Movies Film Festival.
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