Cinema Studies
THREE MONKEYS [narrative]2024 Cinema Studies Narrative Films Psychology & Psychiatry Family Relations
Winner of the Best Director prize at Cannes, Three Monkeys is a moving, visually unforgettable triumph from the Turkish master Nuri Bilge Ceylan (Once Upon a Time in Anatolia, Thear Tree)
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DAUGHTERS OF FIRE2024 African Studies Cinema Studies Cultural Studies
A new short from acclaimed direcctor Pedro Costa (Horse Money). Three young sisters are set apart by the eruption of Fogo.
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HERE (narrative)2024 Cinema Studies Family Relations Narrative Films Environmental Studies Science
Director Bas Devos offers another Brussels city symphony. With a quiet grace that’s becoming a trademark, he and his team capture both the longing of contemporary urban life and the potential for enchantment that still exists in spaces shared by strangers from different worlds.
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BELLADance American Studies American History Cinema Studies Cultural Studies Directed by Women Performing Arts 2024
Bella, is about the life, influence and impact of California-based artist and activist Bella Lewitzky. Designated one of America's Irreplaceable Dance Treasures by the Dance Heritage Coalition Lewitzky’s life demonstrates how a “uniquely Californian” artist with vision and tenacity can change the lives of her fellow citizens.
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LAST THINGSAnthropology Archeology Cinema Studies Directed by Women Environmental Studies Photography Physical Science Science 2024
Last Things looks at evolution and extinction from the perspective of the rocks and minerals that came before humanity and will outlast us. With scientists and thinkers like Lynn Margulis and Marcia Bjørnerud as guides, the film seeks a picture of evolution without humans at the center.
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TYPHOON CLUB (4k restoration)2023 Asian Studies Cinema Studies Media Studies Narrative Films
Winner of the Grand Prix at the first Tokyo International Film Festival in 1985, Typhoon Club is widely regarded as the seminal film of director Shinji Somai’s career. A work of raw, elemental power, it follows an ensemble of junior high students in a provincial town, beset by a summer-y malaise as a typhoon looms. The 10th best Japanese film of all time, according to Japan’s Kinema Junpo poll.
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P.P. RIDER2023 Cinema Studies Asian Studies Media Studies Narrative Films
From acclaimed Japanese filmmaker Shinji Sômai comes an exuberant farce tinted with deep shades of melancholy and real violence, P.P. Rider is an ode to the dreams of youth against authority. Adapted from a comic strip-like scenario by Leonard and Chieko Schrader, it’s a film of unparalleled freedom, and a testament to Somai’s ability to inject his work with the potent marrow of life.
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A COMMON SEQUENCE2023 Anthropology Biology Cinema Studies Cultural Studies Directed by Women Health Indigenous Studies Latino Studies Religion & Spirituality Science Sociology Spanish Language
Within the human struggle to live and work on a changing planet, questions of value, extraction, and adaptation echo across seemingly disparate worlds. A Common Sequence examines shifts of life and labor through a critically-endangered salamander and plant patents in the apple industry. Weaving the stories of Dominican nuns running a conservation lab, a group of fisherman attempting to live off of a depleting lake, engineers developing AI-driven harvesting machines, and an indigenous biomedical researcher resisting the commodification of human DNA, the film becomes a meditation on the shifting border between the natural and unnatural world, and the dynamics of power at play.
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UMBERTO ECO: a library of the world2023 Aging / Gerontology Art History Cinema Studies Europe Literature World History
A documentary immersion into all things Umberto Eco, Davide Ferrario’s film takes us on a tour of Eco’s private library, guided by the author himself. Combining new footage with material he shot with Eco in 2015
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TRENQUE LAUQUEN (parts 1 and 2)2023 Cinema Studies Latino Studies Biology Narrative Films Spanish Language Directed by Women
A selection of the New York Film Festival, director Laura Citarella directs a labyrinthine tale of obsessive pursuit and the quest for personal freedom.
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WALK UP2023 Asian Studies Cinema Studies Narrative Films Films of Hong Sangsoo
In his ninth film for Hong Sangsoo, Kwon Haehyo plays Byungsoo, a film director who goes with his daughter to a building owned by an old friend, Hong fills the building spaces with a profusion of everyday details spanning art, love, career, religion, dietary decisions and home renovations.
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THE NOVELIST'S FILM2023 Cinema Studies Asian Studies Narrative Films Films of Hong Sangsoo
Winner of the Grand Jury Prize at the Berlin Film Festival. For his 27th feature, Hong Sangsoo holds a mirror up to his own artistic process and asks what exactly it is we’re looking for from a work of art.
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HUMAN FLOWERS OF FLESH2023 Cinema Studies Cultural Studies Europe Narrative Films Directed by Women
The film follows Ida, who, after a stirring encounter with the French Foreign Legion, sets sail with her own corps of five men, none of whom speak the same language, to trace the route of this fabled troop.
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DRIFT2023 Directed by Women Cinema Studies Narrative Films
In her dynamic and entrancing directorial debut, Helena Wittmann takes us on a transatlantic voyage unlike any other, scrambling our senses and inviting us to surrender to the ocean's ever-undulating surface.
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THE STRANGE LITTLE CAT2023 Cinema Studies Family Relations Narrative Films Sociology
The Strange Little Cat assembles seemingly unspectacular details into an exciting choreography of everyday life, a carefully staged chain reaction of actions and conversations, turning an apartment into a universe.
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GEOGRAPHIES OF SOLITUDE2022 Anthropology Cinema Studies Directed by Women Environmental Studies Sociology Photography 2023
Critic's Pick! One of the most awarded films of 2022, Geographies of Solitude is a playful and reverent collaboration with the natural world filled with arresting images and made with an activist spirit. The film follows Zoe, a naturalist and environmentalist who has lived Sable Island, on a remote sliver of land in the Northwest Atlantic with a rich ecosystem, for over 40 years.
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SANSON AND ME2023 Cinema Studies Education Family Relations Immigration Latino Studies Sociology Criminal & Law Political Science
A vibrant portrait of a friendship navigating immigration and the depths of the criminal justice system and pushing the boundaries of cinematic imagination to rescue a young migrant's story from oblivion.
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DOS ESTACIONES2022 Cinema Studies Sociology Spanish Language LGBTQ Latino Studies
Winner of a Special Jury Prize at the Sundance Film Festival, Dos Estaciones follows iron-willed businesswoman María García (Teresa Sánchez), the owner of Dos Estaciones, a once-majestic tequila factory now struggling to stay afloat.
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I AM A TOWN2023 American Studies Anthropology Art History Cinema Studies Family Relations Photography
The community of Provincetown, which has been clinging to a distinctly American - and yet increasingly rare - way of life. In his immersive documentary debut, Mischa Richter, whose artist family has been living there for nearly a century, explores his home through shared moments and conversations with locals, pilgrims, outcasts, fishermen, drag queens and spirit guides in an exploration of what freedom and community mean in America today.
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IN FRONT OF YOUR FACE2023 Cinema Studies Narrative Films Asian Studies Performing Arts Films of Hong Sangsoo
In her first role for Hong, Lee Hyeyoung, a prominent theater and screen actress in South Korea, makes a captivating return to the big screen. With In Front of Your Face, Hong suggests that perhaps the most important things in this life are also the most immediate.
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