Africa Mia
Africa Mia (Richard Minier & Edouard Salier, 2020, France/Cuba/Mali, 80 min.) – African Diaspora Music Films “Africa Mia is a journey in search of the soul of Afro-Cuban music. From the communist friendships of…
Une histoire d’armour et de désir
Une histoire d’amour et de désir [A Story of Love and Desire] (Leyla Bouzid, 2021, Tunisia/France, 102 min.) “Ahmed, 18, French of Algerian origin, grew up in the suburbs of…
More Than A Word
More Than A Word (John & Kenn Little, 2017, Standing Rock Sioux Tribe, 70 min.) Q&A with director John Little after the screening, hosted by visiting American Studies faculty Dr.…
Trenque Lauquen
Trenque Lauquen (Laura Citarella, 2022, Argentina/Germany, 240 min. total [120 min. each part]) – Q&A with director Laura Citarella and actor Ezequiel Pierri after the Tuesday evening screening “In her…
Memoria
Memoria (Apichatpong Weerasethakul, 2021, Colombia/Thailand/France/Germany/Mexico/Qatar/UK/China/US/Switzerland, 136 min.) Q&A with director Apichatpong Weerasethakul after the screening “Ever since being startled by a loud ‘bang’ at daybreak, Jessica (Tilda Swinton) is unable…
Uncle Boonmee Who Can Recall His Past Lives
Uncle Boonmee Who Can Recall His Past Lives (Apichatpong Weerasethakul, 2010, Thailand, 114 min.) – winner of the 2010 Cannes Film Festival Palme d’Or “Suffering from acute kidney failure, Boonmee…
Lingui, les liens sacrés [Lingui, the Sacred Bonds]
Lingui, les liens sacrés [Lingui, the Sacred Bonds] (Mahamet-Saleh Haroun, 2021, Chad/France/Belgium/Germany, 87 min.) “Thirty-year-old Amina, a practicing Muslim, lives alone with her only child, the fifteen-year-old Maria. When Amina…
Hearing Radmilla
Hearing Radmilla (Angela Webb, 2003, Diné-Navajo/Nahilii, 82 min.) Q&A with Radmilla Cody and director Angela Webb after the screening, hosted by visiting American Studies faculty Dr. Jennifer Denetdale “Growing up…
International Film Forum: Better Days
Better Days (Derek Tsang, 2019, China/Hong Kong, 135 min.) Chinese screen idols Zhou Dongyu and Jackson Yee star in this blockbuster about a pair of star-crossed lovers: a brutally bullied high-school…
International Film Forum: Dancing the Twist in Bamako
Dancing the Twist in Bamako [Twist à Bamako] (Robert Guédiguian, 2022, France/Canada/Senegal/Italy/Mali, 129 min.) Mali, 1962. The youth of Bamako dance the twist to rock and roll music newly imported from…
