Presented by Scott Juengel, Senior Lecturer/Assistant
Director of Graduate Studies in English

Norway/Canada/Germany (2016) Dir: Rob
 Tregenza

A German businessman travels to
 Norway to finish the impossible translation of
 Norwegian poet Tarjei Vesaas’s poems into
 Chinese, a project of his late wife. The title is 
borrowed from philosopher W.V.O. Quine and 
refers to the attempt to make sense of a word in a foreign language. Gavagai is a drama of two stories of shared purpose and forged intimacy—and of love and loss. English. 90 min.

Presented in collaboration with FLiCX and the office of Dean of Students

Anchor Link: https://anchorlink.vanderbilt.edu/event/1880948

Presented by Jennifer Fay, Associate Professor of Cinema
 & Media Arts and English; and Alex Dubilet, Senior Lecturer,
Department of English and Political Science

Romania/France/Belgium (2016) Dir: Cristian Mungiu

One of the great auteurs of contemporary Romanian
 cinema offers us a dark satire about the stresses of
high school exams and the pressure parents place
 on their children to succeed in the ways that they and
their country may have failed. Through a series of twists, Graduation turns what may count as success on its head. As one critic notes, this is a story about the “moral costs of survival” and the possibility of freedom in a corrupt national system. Romanian with English subtitles. 128 min.

Presented in collaboration with the Department of Political Science, English, and Cinema & Media Arts

Anchor Link: https://anchorlink.vanderbilt.edu/event/1880946