{"id":1064,"date":"2003-09-25T03:11:29","date_gmt":"2003-09-25T09:11:29","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.saic.edu\/cate\/?p=1064"},"modified":"2021-04-23T18:15:51","modified_gmt":"2021-04-23T18:15:51","slug":"nema-problema","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sites.saic.edu\/cate\/2003\/09\/25\/nema-problema\/","title":{"rendered":"Nema Problema"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"MsoNormal\"><span><strong>Thursday, September 25, 2003, 8pm<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\">\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\"><span><em>Susana Foxley in person!<\/em><\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\"><span>In conjunction with the Film Center\u2019s \u201cPinochet and Beyond: Contemporary Chilean Documentary\u201d series, <em>Conversations at the Edge<\/em> is proud to present this poignant clash-of-cultures study, presented by co-director Susana Foxley.\u00a0 <em>Nema Problema <\/em>(the title is Serbian) traces the lives of 26 refugees from the Balkans War of 1991 who decide to accept the first resettlement program of the United Nations in Latin America, and immigrate to Chile.\u00a0 Their warm welcome by the cheerful Chileans, proud of their new role as benefactors, cannot mask the economic slump which sets the immigrants\u2019 new-found freedom against a material existence more precarious, for some, than before.\u00a0 Foxley and Leighton portray the Croat, Serb and Bosnian refugees as individuals and set their varied attitudes \u2013 from snobbish to grateful to resignedly analytical \u2013 against the ingenuous observations of their government-appointed Chilean cook.\u00a0 A tale of best intentions with an ironic conclusion, <em>Nema Problema<\/em> traces a process of disillusionment and along the way demystifies Chile\u2019s self-image as a melting pot \u2013 with echoes for the USA (Jim Trainor). 2001, Susanna Foxley &amp; Cristian Leighton, Chile, 62 min, video.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Thursday, September 25, 2003, 8pm Susana Foxley in person! In conjunction with the Film Center\u2019s \u201cPinochet and Beyond: Contemporary Chilean Documentary\u201d series, Conversations at the Edge is proud to present this poignant clash-of-cultures study, presented by co-director Susana Foxley.\u00a0 Nema Problema (the title is Serbian) traces the lives of 26 refugees from the Balkans War [&#8230;]<\/p>\n<p><a class=\"btn btn-secondary understrap-read-more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/sites.saic.edu\/cate\/2003\/09\/25\/nema-problema\/\">Read More&#8230;<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> from Nema Problema<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":198,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[450,552],"class_list":["post-1064","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-8","tag-non-fiction","tag-south-america"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.saic.edu\/cate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1064","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.saic.edu\/cate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.saic.edu\/cate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.saic.edu\/cate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/198"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.saic.edu\/cate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1064"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/sites.saic.edu\/cate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1064\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8871,"href":"https:\/\/sites.saic.edu\/cate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1064\/revisions\/8871"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.saic.edu\/cate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1064"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.saic.edu\/cate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1064"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.saic.edu\/cate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1064"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}