Screening at 6pm
RESTREPO
by Tim Hetherington, Sebastian Junger (2010 – 1h33)
Grand Jury Prize for best documentary at the 2010 Sundance Film Festival
A documentary that chronicles the deployment of a platoon of U.S. soldiers in Afghanistan’s Korengal Valley. The movie focuses on a remote 15-man outpost, “Restrepo,” named after a platoon medic who was killed in action. The goal of the film is to make viewers feel as if they have just been through a 90-minute deployment. Hetherington was killed in April 2011 while covering the Libyan war
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