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11:35 AM, May 15, 2008 • By JOHN NOONAN
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The GI Film Festival in Washington, DC:

The GI Film Festival (GIFF), a 501 c(3) non-profit organization, is the first film festival in the nation to exclusively celebrate the successes and sacrifices of the American military through the medium of film. The four-day festival will be held on May 14-18, 2008 in Washington DC.

The GIFF will present films from new and established international and domestic filmmakers that honor the heroic stories of the American Armed Forces and the worldwide struggle for freedom and liberty. Some of the films screened will be fan favorites. Others will be screened for the first time. All will in some way express the courage and selflessness of our fighting men and women and the value of their work.

The 2008 festival is particularly relevant, given the long chain of anti-military movies that tanked at the box office this past year. Organizers are screening an impressive list of films that offer a somewhat different view of the American GI and the United States in general. As far as the latter goes, I'm particularly interested in The World Without Us, a short alternate reality film involving a neo-isolationist US President (Ron Paul maybe?) who retreats to our pre-World War II foreign policy. Here's the trailer:

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The festival extends to Sunday. You can buy tickets here