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A TRAVELER'S NEEDS2025 Cinema Studies Cultural Studies Family Relations Films of Hong Sangsoo 2024
A comedy of improbable encounters and unlikely language lessons, A Traveler’s Needs marks the third collaboration between Hong and Isabelle Huppert (following 2012’s In Another Country and 2017’s Claire’s Camera). An Official Selection of the New York Film Festival.
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ON THE BATTLEFIELD2024 African-American Studies American Studies American History Anthropology Short Films Cultural Studies 2025
In the Southern Illinois region of Little Egypt, a sound recordist walks through the fields where once stood Pyramid Courts - the housing projects that formed the heart of the Black community of his hometown, Cairo.
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MOVING (4k restoration)2024 Cinema Studies Asian Studies Children & Young Adult Family Relations Narrative Films Performing Arts
Since its premiere at Cannes in Un Certain Regard in 1993, Moving has been one Shinji Somai’s most beloved films. In this poignant family drama, Somai transcends the tropes of stories of children dealing with divorce to bring us a film filled with indelible images about an unforgettable teenage girl who encounters the unknown and refuses to succumb to it.
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IN ANOTHER COUNTRY2025 2024 Cinema Studies Films of Hong Sangsoo Narrative Films Performing Arts
A comedy of behaviors and a study in variations, Hong Sangsoo’s first film with Isabelle Huppert ranks among his breeziest and most mindbending endeavors. In Another Country inaugurated one of the most fruitful actor-director collaborations in contemporary cinema.
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MUSIC2024 Music Directed by Women Narrative Films Literature Cinema Studies
Freely inspired by the story of Oedipus, Angela Schanelec's latest is as terrifying as myth and as gentle as a folk song. An official selection of the New York Film Festival.
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VOICES OVER THE WATER2024 American Studies Anthropology Cultural Studies Directed by Women Education Immigration Performing Arts Political Science Sociology World History Across the United States, thousands of people celebrate their ancestral heritage. They sing. They dance. Dressed distinctively, they make merry. Many are homesick for a land they never knew. Voices over the Water looks at Scottish identity in America and asks, who can claim this identity. How Scottish do you have to be to wear the tartan and march in a parade, or dance at a ceilidh? |
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IN OUR DAY2024 Aging / Gerontology Asian Studies Cinema Studies Cultural Studies Family Relations Films of Hong Sangsoo Narrative Films Performing Arts With his 30th feature film, Hong demonstrates a new level of mastery of his art, using long, deceptively elaborate shots to articulate the simplest of pleasures: an inter-species encounter, the discovery of a new drink, a game of rock paper scissors. Kim and Ki lead an outstanding cast of the most natural of performers. In Our Day is a film to drink of deeply, to share with friends, and afterward, to reflect on what matters most. |
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THE TUBA THIEVES
What is the role of sound and what does it mean to listen? Hard of hearing filmmaker Alison O’Daniel uses a series of tuba thefts in Los Angeles high schools as a jumping-off point to explore these questions. Through several d/Deaf people telling stories in a unique game of telephone, the central mystery of The Tuba Thieves isn’t about theft of instruments; it’s about the nature of sound itself.
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EAT BITTER2024 African Studies Asian Studies Business Economics Environmental Studies Family Relations Political Science Urban Studies Sociology An eye-opening documentary filmed in the Central African Republic follows a native sand diver and a Chinese national developing the land. As we follow the hardships and struggle, the film raises the question of what are we prepared to sacrifice for a better tomorrow, without a promise that it will ever arrive. |
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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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RICHLAND2024 American History American Studies Anthropology Cultural Studies Directed by Women Education Environmental Studies Family Relations Political Science Sociology World History Cinema Studies A U.S. nuclear company town stakes its identity on its little-known atomic origin story in this timely examination of the habits of thought that normalize the extraordinary violence of the past. |
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A VERY FRAGILE THINGAfrican Studies Peace & Conflict Political Science World History Short Films 2024 What happens when we choose to define ourselves according to our differences? "A Very Fragile Thing" offers a cautionary tale for any society wracked with distrust and division via a first-person journey into the origins of a civil war that has claimed the lives of half a million Ethiopians since 2020. |