International Lens Film Series
The Mistake (Die Verfehlung)
Tuesday, Mar. 21, 2017, 7:30 p.m. – 9:45 p.m.
Sarratt Cinema
2301 Vanderbilt Place, Nashville, TN 37240
Presented by Kaleigh Bangor and Adam Merki, graduate students in German Studies
Germany (1991) Dir: Heiner Carow. Carow (Coming Out, The Legend of Paul and Paula) explores the dramatic reality of romantic relationships in a divided Germany in Die Verfehlung (The Mistake.Carow’s retrospective look into East German life reveals a world of surveillance, isolation, desperation, and revenge in the German Democratic Republic. German with English subtitles. 105 min. DVD.
Presented in collaboration with the department of German, Russian, and East European Studies Department. Film on loan from the DEFA Film Library at University of Massachusetts, Amherst.
A Separation
Wednesday, Mar. 22, 2017, 7:30 p.m. – 10:00 p.m.
Sarratt Cinema
2301 Vanderbilt Place, Nashville, TN 37240
Presented by Jennifer Fay, Associate Professor and Director of Cinema & Media Arts, and Anand Taneja, Assistant Professor of Religious Studies.
Iran (2011) Dir: Asghar Farhadi. Set in contemporary Iran, A Separation has been celebrated as one of the best films of 2011 (winning the Academy Award for Best Foreign Language Film). It concerns the dissolution of a marriage, the stress of caring for an elderly family member, and the drama of class and religious difference. Farsi with English Subtitles. 123 min. 35mm.
Presented in collaboration with Cinema & Media Arts
Memorias del Subdesarrollo (Memories of Underdevelpment)
Sunday, Mar. 26, 2017, 1:00 p.m. – 3:45 p.m.
Sarratt Cinema
2301 Vanderbilt Place, Nashville, TN 37240
Presented by Ben Chace, director of Sin Alas, and William Luis, Director of the Latino and Latina Studies Program and Gertrude Conway Vanderbilt Professor of Spanish.
Cuba (1968) Dir. Tomás Gutiérrez Alea. Sergio, a wealthy bourgeois aspiring writer, decides to stay in Cuba after the revolution, even though his wife and friends flee to Miami. Sergio reflects on the changes in Cuba, from the Castro Revolution to the missile crisis, the effect of living in an underdeveloped country, and his relationships with his girlfriends, Elena and Hanna. Memories of Underdevelopment is a complex character study of alienation during the turmoil of social changes. The film is told in a highly subjective point of view through a fragmented narrative that resembles the way memories function. Spanish with English Subtitles. Digital file. 97 minutes.
Presented in collaboration with The Latino and Latina Studies Program and the Center for Latin American Studies.
Restored by the Cineteca di Bologna at L’ Immagine Ritrovata laboratory in association with Instituto Cubano del Arte e Industria Cinematograficos (ICAIC ). Restoration funded by the George Lucas Family Foundation and The Film Foundation’s World Cinema Project.
Sin Alas (Without Wings)
Sunday, Mar. 26, 2017, 3:00 p.m. – 5:00 p.m.
Sarratt Cinema
2301 Vanderbilt Place, Nashville, TN 37240
Presented by Ben Chace, Director
Cuba/USA (2015) 70 year-old Luis Vargas sits in front of his crumbling art deco building in downtown Havana reading the Communist newspaper. He notices an obituary for Isabela Muñoz, a once renowned modern dancer, and attends her funeral, standing apart from the rest of the mourners. That night he can’t sleep and is tormented by a fragment of the melody from her famous performance in 1967. His friend Ovilio suggests completing the melody as a way of letting go, but after a meandering search through the streets of Havana, Luis is led even deeper into a world of memory he has spent decades trying to forget. As scenes from his dramatic affair with Isabela unfold into his consciousness of daily life Luis begins to see parallels in the strained marriage of his young neighbors and the memories of his parents from his childhood in the provinces. Realizing his place in a cycle of failed intentions the old man tries to make a break. Spanish with English subtitles. Blu-ray. 90 minutes.
The first American directed and/or produced film shot in Cuba since the revolution. The first American film invited to premiere at the Havana International Film Festival.