2025


THE BALLAD OF SUZANNE CESAIRE
THE BALLAD OF SUZANNE CESAIRE

2025  Cinema Studies  Cultural Studies  Directed by Women  Literature  Narrative Films  Sociology  Women's Studies 

An actress and new mother is haunted by voices as she embarks on inhabiting the role of surrealist writer Suzanne Roussi-Césaire. In the sleepy palm groves of the tropics, a small group of filmmakers and actors confront the history of writer Suzanne Césaire in her youth and then stage scenes from her life, troubling the “paradise” of historical memory. Moving between narrative filmmaking and abstraction, this is a film that leaves room for the unknown. 

RECOLLECTIONS OF THE YELLOW HOUSE
RECOLLECTIONS OF THE YELLOW HOUSE

2025  Art History  Cinema Studies  Europe  Narrative Films  Performing Arts 

Subtitled "A Portuguese Comedy" and deliberately evoking the popular spectacles of yore, the film is both a sensuous and slow-burn circus act and a jewel of ingenious formal ideas and sublime lyricism. Considered by many to be Monteiro's crowning achievement, the film inaugurated a series of late-period romps featuring the endearing and dastardly João de Deus, the man you love to hate.

MATT and MARA
MATT and MARA

2025  Cinema Studies  Family Relations  Literature 

When Mara reunites with Matt a chance encounter threatens to spin her life in a thrilling new direction. Bonded by their history and shared interests, the two grow closer. When her husband unexpectedly cancels plans to drive Mara to a conference out of town, Matt accompanies her instead and the pressure in their undefined relationship slowly builds.

A TRAVELER'S NEEDS
A TRAVELER'S NEEDS

2025  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.

ON THE BATTLEFIELD
ON THE BATTLEFIELD

2024  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.

IN ANOTHER COUNTRY
IN ANOTHER COUNTRY

2025  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.