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Tuesday, After Christmas
Wednesday, April 17 Presented by: Jennifer Fay, Director of Film Studies Romania (2010) Dir: Radu Mantean. The Romanian New Wave of the past decade has yielded many internationally acclaimed gems. Add to them this elegant, emotionally resonant drama of a middle-class couple whose marriage is rocked by the husband’s illicit affair with their daughter’s sexy...... KEEP READING
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Return to Paradise
Tuesday, April 9 Presented by: Myrna Wooders, Professor of Economics USA (1998) Dir: Joseph Ruben. A thriller that traps its characters in an exquisite dilemma involving life and death. Three Americans meet in Malaysia and fool around on the beach enjoying rum, girls, and hashish. Two return to New York while the third plans to...... KEEP READING
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Tuesday, April 2 Presented by: Sherif Barsoum, Director, International Student & Scholar Services Egypt (2010) Dir: Mohamed Diab. A raw side of Egypt that the world has barely seen. Unfolds the poignant story of three women and their search for justice from the daily plight of sexual harassment. When one of the women resorts to...... KEEP READING
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Kingdom Come
Friday, April 5 @ 7:30 p.m. @ Buttrick Theater Hosted by: Jonathan Rattner, Assistant Professor, Film Studies Program Presented by: John Lyons Murphy, co-director of the documentary and producer of Broken Kingdom USA (2011) Dir: Paiman Kalayeh, John Lyons Murphy Kingdom. Come follows a first-time director (Daniel Gillies) as he tries to raise a million...... KEEP READING
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Departures
Saturday, March 30 @ 10 p.m. @ The Commons Presented by: Global Perspectives Student Organization Japan (2008) Dir: Yojiro Takita. An out-of-work cellist accepts a job as an undertaker in order to provide for himself and his young wife. Daigo answers a classified ad for a company called “Departures,” mistakenly assuming that he will be...... KEEP READING
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Distant
Thursday, March 28 Presented by: Turkish Student Association Turkey (2002) Dir: Nuri Bilge Ceylan. Superlatives are warranted for this Turkish arthouse drama which is filled with a palpable sense of loss and yearning. Written, produced, photographed, edited, and directed by Ceylan, it’s the story of an unemployed young man from the countryside who comes to...... KEEP READING
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An Evening with Robert Beavers
Thursday, March 21 Presented by: Chancellor Nicholas Zeppos and the Film Studies Program USA Robert Beavers is an American filmmaker, born and raised in Massachusetts. He moved to New York in 1965 to pursue filmmaking, and lived there until 1967 when he and his partner, Gregory Markopoulos, left the United States for Europe, where they...... KEEP READING
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Pray the Devil Back to Hell
Wednesday, March 13th Presented by: Vanderbilt Speakers Committee, Microfinance club, Manna, Grassroots and Global Poverty Initiative Liberia, USA (2008) Dir: Gini Reticker. The extraordinary story of a small band of Liberian women who came together in the midst of a bloody civil war, took on the violent warlords and corrupt Charles Taylor regime, and won...... KEEP READING
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Long Night’s Journey into Day
Tuesday, March 12 Presented by: Clive Mentzel, Director of the Office of Active Citizenship & Service, and Frank Dobson, Director of the Bishop Johnson Black Cultural Center South Africa (2000) Dir: Deborah Hoffman & Frances Reid. This documentary tells four stories of Apartheid in South Africa, as seen through the eyes of the Truth and...... KEEP READING
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Meet the Fokkens
Wednesday, February 27 Presented by: Margaret Cuninggim Women’s Center The Netherlands (2011) Dir: Gabrielle Provaas and Rob Schroder. Louise and Martine Fokkens are 70-year-old identical twins and the oldest prostitutes in Amsterdam’s Red Light District. They have been thrust into the spotlight with the release of this documentary about their lives in which they share...... KEEP READING
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