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Ilens Film: Reshipment

Presented by: William Luis, Professor of Spanish and Director of the Program in Latino and Latina Studies; and Gloria Rolando, Filmmaker Cuba (2014) Dir: Gloria Rolando. A documentary about a little-known chapter in the history of Cuba where Haitians were brought to the country as cheap labor to work in the sugar cane fields and…

Posted by on October 2, 2014 in Activities Everyone

Ilens Film: The Past

Presented by: Esfandiar Zafar, Chief Operating Officer of Information Technology Services France, Italy (2013) Dir: Asghar Farhadi. The director of the acclaimed film A Separation continues his penetrating examination of deteriorating relationships. An Iranian man reunites with his estranged wife in Paris to finalize their divorce, which is soon complicated by a revelation by her…

Posted by on October 2, 2014 in Activities Everyone

Ilens Film: Otelo Burning

Presented by: VU African Student Union South Africa (2011) Dir: Sara Blecher. Set in 1989, three Zulu boys escape their harsh township lives through the joy of surfing. Otelo discovers a natural talent, finding freedom on the waves. But in the turmoil of a country on the cusp of change, he is dragged down into…

Posted by on October 2, 2014 in Activities Everyone

Ilens Film: The Best Things In The World

Presented by: Marcio Bahia, Assistant Professor of Portuguese Brazil (2010) Dir: Lais Bodansky. The coming of age story of one month in the lives of Hermano and Pedro, two brothers who find out their parents are getting a divorce because their father is gay. With all the challenges in the process of becoming an adult,…

Posted by on September 20, 2014 in Activities Everyone

Ilens film: The Great Beauty

Presented by: Andrea Mirabile, Associate Professor of Italian Italy, France (2013) A journalist has charmed and seduced his way through the lavish nightlife of Rome for decades. When his sixty-fifth birthday coincides with a shock from the past, he finds himself unexpectedly taking stock of his life, turning his cutting wit on himself and his…

Posted by on September 19, 2014 in Activities Everyone

Ilens film: Still Life

Presented by: Jennifer Fay, Associate Professor of Film and English and Director, Program in Cinema & Media Arts and Lutz Koepnick, Gertrude Conaway Vanderbilt Professor of German and Cinema & Media Arts China, Hong Kong (2006) Dir: Zhangke Jia. This haunting minimalist drama takes as its focal point the real-life construction of the Three Gorges…

Posted by on September 19, 2014 in Activities Everyone

Ilens film: Dilwale Dulhania Le Jayenge

Presented by: Samira Sheikh, Associate Professor of History, Asian Studies and Islamic Studies India (1995) Dir: Aditya Chopra. A young man and woman, both of Indian descent but born and raised in Britain, fall in love during a trip to Switzerland. However, the girl’s traditional father takes her back to India to fulfill a betrothal…

Posted by on September 19, 2014 in Activities Everyone

Ilens Film: Yi Yi

Presented by: Vanderbilt Undergraduate Chinese Association Taiwan, Japan (2000) Dir: Edward Yang. The extraordinary, internationally embraced Yi Yi, directed by the late Taiwanese master Edward Yang, follows a middle-class family in Taipei over the course of one year. Yang deftly imbues every gorgeous frame with compassionate clarity. Warm, sprawling, and dazzling, this intimate epic is…

Posted by on September 16, 2014 in Activities Everyone

Ilens Film: Open Your Eyes

Presented by: Haerin Shin, Assistant Professor of English Spain, France, Italy (1997) Dir: Alejandro Amenabar. The line between dreams and reality become increasingly blurred after a womanizing playboy is disfigured by a jilted lover in a purposeful car accident. Peeling away at the layers of his subconscious, Cesar begins to realize that reality is no…

Posted by on September 11, 2014 in Activities Everyone

Ilens Film: A Touch of Sin

Presented by: Lutz Koepnick, Gertrude Conaway Vanderbilt Professor of German and Cinema & Media Arts; and Nick Kline, A & S Class of 2016. China (2013) Dir: Zhangke Jia. This daring and poetic film focuses on four characters, each living in different provinces of present-day China, who are driven to violent ends. Based loosely on…

Posted by on September 11, 2014 in Activities Everyone

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