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OUR BODY2023 Aging / Gerontology Children & Young Adult Cultural Studies Directed by Women Biology Family Relations Health LGBTQ Medicine Science Human Sexuality Women's Studies
In Our Body, veteran documentarian Claire Simon observes the everyday operations of the gynecological ward in a public hospital in Paris. In the process, she questions what it means to live in a woman’s body, filming the diversity, singularity and beauty of patients in all stages of life.
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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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HOUSE SPECIAL2023 Asian Studies Cultural Studies Education Gastronomy Immigration Indigenous Studies Family Relations Sociology Women's Studies World History
A five-part docu series that chronicles the Chinese Canadian experience through the lens of small-town Asian food joints and the families that run them. Ride the rails with chef and author, Jackie Kai Ellis, as she explores Canadian Chop Suey cuisine.
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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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NOBODY'S DAUGHTER HAEWON
With her mother about to depart for a new life in Canada, college student Haewon is in quite a state. Haewon drifts in and out of dreams and has a series of encounters: with a professor who teaches in America and knows Martin Scorsese, with a friend locked in a long-term relationship with a married man, with a famous French actress.
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OUR SUNHI
An almost-romantic roundelay of comic attempts at understanding ensues when recent film school graduate Sunhi returns to her university while on campus, she runs into a professor, an ex-boyfriend and a film director who also graduated from the school. Each of the three men offer their advice on life and attempt to lay out the qualities that define her. From acclaimed director Hong Sangsoo.
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OKI'S MOVIE
One of Hong Sangsoo's most structurally audacious films, Oki's Movie comprises four short films arranged in an almost nesting doll formation. An official selection of the New York Film Festival.
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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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