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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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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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MISS ALMA THOMAS: a life in color2022 American Studies American History Art History African-American Studies Education Short Films Directed by Women Women's Studies Alma W. Thomas, a Black woman painter, broke color barriers on and off the canvas, yet did not receive national attention until she was 80 years old. “Miss Alma Thomas” is the first documentary film that explores Thomas’ incredible life through the lens of curators, art specialists, scholars, and her family. |
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THE GIRL AND THE SPIDER2022 Europe Family Relations Cinema Studies Narrative Films
As her roommate Lisa prepares to move out of their apartment, Mara contemplates the end of an era. In The Girl and the Spider, the Zürcher brothers compose a poetic panopticon of forms of human relationships that is at once a study of everyday life, a fairytale and a psychological portrait of a brittle world.
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CANE FIRE2022 American Studies American History Cinema Studies Indigenous Studies Media Studies A kaleidoscopic portrait of Hawaiʻi and the economic and cultural forces that have cast Indigenous and working-class residents as "extras" in their own story |
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THE WOMAN WHO RAN2022 Asian Studies Cinema Studies Narrative Films Women's Studies Films of Hong Sangsoo
THE WOMAN WHO RAN is a subtle, powerful look at dramas small and large faced by women everywhere. With characteristic humor and grace, Hong takes a simple premise and spins a web of interconnecting philosophies and coincidences. Winner of the Silver Bear for Best Director at the Berlin Film Festival.
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ROCK BOTTOM RISERAnthropology Asian-American Studies Cinema Studies Economics Media Studies Photography Political Science Science Physical Science Sociology American Studies American History 2022 Explorers have long made Hawaii the hub for their searching. Today-as lava continues to flow on the island—another crisis mounts as scientists plan to build the world's largest telescope on Mauna Kea, Hawaii's most sacred and revered mountain. The film weaves a vital tapestry of post-colonialism and pop culture with cinematic brio and a wry wit. Rock Bottom Riser is an essential document and an exhilarating tour-de-force, a palimpsest that traverses geology, ethnography and astronomy. |
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A NIGHT OF KNOWING NOTHING2022 Anthropology Asian Studies Cinema Studies Directed by Women Political Science Sociology World History Director Payal Kapadia deftly merges reality with fiction, weaving together archival footage with student protest videos to create a vital tapestry of the personal and the political. With its dreamlike editing rhythms and a revelatory use of sound, A Night of Knowing Nothing is both an essential document of contemporary India and a nostalgic look at youth fighting the injustice of their time. |
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LA MANPLESA: an uprising remembered2022 American Studies American History Criminal & Law Cultural Studies Directed by Women Latin-American Studies Sociology
On May 5th, 1991, people took to the streets of Washington D.C.’s Mount Pleasant neighborhood to protest the police shooting of Daniel Gomez, a young man from El Salvador. Through testimony, song, poetry, and street theatre, La Manplesa weaves together the collective memory of one of D.C.’s first barrios and dives into the roots of the ‘91 rebellion.
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ANY GIVEN DAY2022 American Studies Directed by Women Family Relations Health Psychology & Psychiatry Sociology Criminal & Law A filmmaker with mental illness follows three defendants through a specialized mental health probation program. While sharing their rarely seen struggles, she faces her own challenges, making clear just how precarious the ties between people with mental illness, their families and society can be. From Margaret Byrne, the director of Raising Bertie. |
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INTRODUCTION2022 Media Studies Asian Studies Cinema Studies Family Relations Narrative Films Films of Hong Sangsoo
Winner for Best Screenplay at Berlin Film Festival. For his twenty-fifth feature as director and his first as cinematographer, Hong Sangsoo offers a simple tale of young people on the edge of adulthood. Introduction cuts to the essence of who we are as people, like an unexpected hug on a winter's day.
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THE ACCUSED: Damned or Devoted2021 Criminal & Law Cultural Studies Economics Education Islamic Studies Middle Eastern Studies Religion & Spirituality World History 2022 There is a divide in Pakistan over its blasphemy law, which if broken can lead to a death sentence for those accused. Cleric Khadim Hussain Rizvi, has one mission: to preserve Pakistan’s blasphemy laws and now he’s running for the highest office in the country. Now everyone, those that oppose him and even his followers, are just pawns in his quest for absolute power. |
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EXPEDITION CONTENT2021 Anthropology Cinema Studies Cultural Studies Directed by Women Education Indigenous Studies Political Science Sensory Ethnography Lab Sociology World History 2022
An immersive marvel of sonic ethnography, Expedition Content draws on audio recordings made by recent college graduate and Standard Oil heir Michael Rockefeller as part of the so-called Harvard-Peabody Expedition to Netherlands New Guinea in 1961
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SO DEAR, SO LOVELY2021 Directed by Women Middle Eastern Studies Sociology Short Films Sensory Ethnography Lab Peace & Conflict Cinema Studies 2022
In this two-part tour through the streets of Lebanon, a colorful Palestinian cab driver offers offhand insight into the region’s fraught political and social climate through boisterous serenades and excitable outbursts.
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THE KITCHENISTAS2021 American Studies Business Cultural Studies Family Relations Gastronomy Health Latino Studies Latin-American Studies Women's Studies Sociology 2022
What started as a 7-week nutrition program for women seeking healthier diets, has become a Latina-led movement to enact change in their own communities. Known as Kitchenistas, these women are showing how healthy food traditions can lead to physical, emotional, and spiritual wellbeing as well as big change in the home, at schools, within city hall, and in the healthcare system.
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