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Ilens film: Hell and Back Again

Presented by: Kenneth MacLeish, Assistant Professor, Center for Medicine, Health, and Society. USA, UK, Afghanistan (2011) Dir: Danfung Dennis. Follows 25-year-old Marine Sgt. Nathan Harris on his most difficult mission: coming home after being seriously wounded in Afghanistan. Embedded with Harris’s unit during their assault on a Taliban stronghold, Dennis toggles between the intense experience…

Posted by on February 26, 2015 in Activities Everyone

Ilens Film: The Other Son

Presented by: Joshua Barton, Assistant Director, Ben Schulman Center for Jewish Life. France (2012) Dir: Loraine Levy. The moving and provocative tale of two young men – one Israeli, the other Palestinian – who discover they were accidentally switched at birth, and the complex repercussions facing them and their respective families. French, English, Arabic, and…

Posted by on February 26, 2015 in Activities Everyone

Ilens film: Juan of the Dead

Presented by: James McFarland, Assistant Professor of German and Cinema & Media Studies. Spain, Cuba (2011) Dir: Alejandro Brugues. A group of slackers face an army of zombies. The Cuban government and media claim the living dead are dissidents revolting against the government. This satirical comedy of life in Cuba under Castro kills and keeps…

Posted by on February 18, 2015 in Activities Everyone

Ilens film: Not My Life

Presented by: Katharine Barcy, UNICEF Community Engagement Fellow for Nashville. Ghana, Senegal, India, Romania, Italy, U.S., Nepal, Guatemala, Uganda, & Sudan (2011) Dir: Robert Bilheimer. The first film to depict the cruel and dehumanizing practices of human trafficking and modern slavery on a global scale. It reveals a world where millions of children are exploited…

Posted by on February 12, 2015 in Activities Everyone

Ilens Film: Life Without Principle

Presented by: Jennifer Fay, Director of Cinema & Media Studies and Thomas McGrath, Class of 2016. Hong Kong (2011) Dir: Johnnie To. Three people – a criminal, a bank officer and a cop – end up in a catastrophic situation in the midst of a global economical crisis and are forced to betray any morals…

Posted by on February 12, 2015 in Activities Everyone

Ilens Film: The New Black

Presented by: Dr. Frank Dobson, Director of the Black Cultural Center, and Petey Peterson, Program Coordinator in the Office of LGBTQI Life. USA (2013) Dir: Yoruba Richen. A documentary that shows activists, families and clergy on both sides of the campaign to legalize gay marriage and examines homophobia in the black community’s institutional pillar –…

Posted by on February 5, 2015 in Activities Everyone

Ilens Film: Still Walking

Presented by Yoshikuni Igarashi, Associate Professor of History. Japan (2008) Dir: Hirokazu Koreeda. A family drama about grown children visiting their elderly parents unfolds over one summer day when their son and daughter return for a rare family reunion, bringing their own families with them. They have gathered to commemorate the death of the eldest…

Posted by on February 5, 2015 in Activities Everyone

Ilens film: Nobody Knows

Presented by: Yoshikuni Igarashi, Associate Professor of History. Japan (2004) Dir: Hirokazu Koreeda. Four siblings live with their mother in a small apartment in Tokyo. One day, the mother leaves behind a little money and a note, charging her oldest boy to look after the others. And so begins the children’s odyssey. Though engulfed by…

Posted by on January 28, 2015 in Activities Everyone

Ilens film: Ivan and Ivana

Presented by: Jennifer Fay, Director of Cinema and Media Arts and Jeff Daniel Silva(filmmaker). USA (2011) Dir: Jeff Daniel Silva. After the Kosovo war devastates a young couple’s homeland and their dreams, they set out to rebuild their lives anew in America. Arriving in California amidst the peak of a housing boom that would soon…

Posted by on January 28, 2015 in Activities Everyone

Ilens film: Maqbool

Presented by: Jane Miller Wanninger, Lecturer of English and Anand Taneja, Assistant Professor of Religious Studies. India (2003) Dir: Vishal Bhardwaj. Based on Shakespeare’s Macbeth with the Mumbai underworld as its backdrop, the story follows the right-hand man of the most powerful ganglord. With great visuals, it is a haunting operatic tragedy. Urdu and Hindi…

Posted by on January 28, 2015 in Activities Everyone

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