Special Screenings and Events
Screenings of special importance or significance.
On Screen/In Person Tour
The Rehoboth Beach Film Society is pleased to be selected by the Mid-Atlantic Arts Foundation to be a host site for the first year of the On Screen/In person film touring program. The goal of the program is to bring the vision of some of the country’s best independent filmmakers to a broad audience throughout the mid-Atlantic region, especially in communities with limited access to their work. On Screen/In Person will tour new independent, American films, including animation, documentary, experimental, and narrative work accompanied by the filmmaker.
On Screen/In Person is made possible by Mid Atlantic Arts Foundation through the generous support of the National Endowment for the Arts’ Regional Touring Program.
Family Talk (Fambul Tok) 
Saturday, March 10, 7:00 pm (Doors open at 6:30 pm)
Location: Upstairs Screening Room, Movies at Midway
Admission: $4.00 RBFS members and $5.00 future members. (Advance ticket sales available online here, at the RBFS office or by phone up to Noon, Friday, March 9. Tickets may also be available at the door up to 30 minutes prior to screening.)
This documentary shows how victims and perpetrators of Sierra Leone's brutal civil war are finding methods of heal-ing in an unprecedented program of tradition-based truth-telling and forgiveness ceremonies. Through reviving their ancient practice of fambul tok (family talk), Sierra Leone-ans continue to build sustainable peace at the grass-roots level. As a result, they are succeeding where the interna-tional community's post-conflict efforts failed. Filled with lessons for the West, Family Talk explores the depths of a culture that believes that true justice lies in redemption and healing for individuals, and that forgiveness is the surest path to restoring dignity and building strong communities. [2010, USA, Runtime: 82 min, Sierra Leone, Not rated, in English and Krio with English subtitles] (Trailer)
Following the screening, former Lutheran Pastor Dick Kaufman, Restorative Justice Practitioner Charito Calvachi-Mateyko, JD, MACT, Sierra Leon government consultant Dr. Cecil Blake, and filmmaker Sara Terry will lead a discussion about forgiveness ceremonies.
Director Sara Terry, a former magazine freelance writer, made a mid-career transition into photojournalism and documentary photography in the late 1990s. Her long-term project about the aftermath of war in Bosnia, “Aftermath: Bosnia’s Long Road to Peace,” was published in 2005 by Channel Photographics and she received a prestigious Alicia Patterson Fellowship for the work. In 2009 she was awarded a 2009 Sundance Documentary Institute grant for Family Talk, her first documentary film.
