International Lens Film Series
Special Event:
Access to the Danger Zone
Monday, November 3, 7:30pm, Sarratt Cinema
Presented by: VU Institute for Global Health
Belgium, Somalia, Kenya, Congo, Afghanistan (2012) Dir: Peter Casaer. Narrated by Daniel Day-Lewis, this documentary provides a harrowing look at the challenges of delivering humanitarian aid in armed conflicts. Access to the Danger Zone explores the strategies that Doctors Without Borders has used to save lives in the world-s worst war zones, including Afghanistan, Somalia, and eastern Democratic Republic of Congo. Interviews with key experts from Doctors Without Borders, the International Committee of the Red Cross, and the United Nations are accompanied by dramatic footage shot in these countries in 2011 and 2012. Join us following the screening for a Q&A with local Doctors Without Borders aid workers, who will share stories from their overseas assignments. Partial funding provided by VU Institute for Global Health.
Seeking Asian Female
Tuesday, November 4, Sarratt Cinema
Presented by: Rory Dicker, Associate Director, Women and Gender Studies
USA (2012) Dir: Debbie Lum. An eccentric modern love story about an aging white man with -yellow fever- who is obsessed with marrying any Asian woman and the young Chinese bride he finds online. Lum, a Chinese-American filmmaker, documents and narrates from the early stages of the search, through the moment Sandy steps foot in America for the first time, to a year into their precarious union. Global migration, Sino-American relations, and the battle of the sexes weigh in on the fate of their marriage in this captivating documentary. English and Mandarin with English subtitles. DVD. 82 minutes. Partial funding provided by the Department of Women and Gender Studies.
Two Lives
Wednesday, November 5, 7:30pm, Sarratt Cinema
Presented by: Lutz Koepnick, Gertrude Conaway Vanderbilt Professor of German and Cinema & Media Arts
Germany, Norway (2012) Dirs: Georg Maas, Judith Kaufmann. As the Berlin Wall crumbles, the daughter of a Norwegian woman and a German occupation soldier finds her idyllic life disrupted as she refuses to testify at a trial against the Norwegian state on behalf of her fellow -war children.- A web of secrets is unveiled, until she is finally stripped of everything and her loved ones are forced to take a stand. A sober look into how war, peace and politics splinter lives. German, Norwegian, English, Russian, and Danish with English subtitles. Blu-ray. 97 minutes. Partial funding provided by the Max Kade Center.
Contact:
Marci Angevine
International Student & Scholar Advisor
e: marci.angevine@vanderbilt.edu