International Film Series
Fall 2006
in the Gish Film Theater
Thursday, 7:30 p.m.
all showings are
free and open to the public
films in languages
other than English are subtitled
The IFS is made
possible by the Office of the Provost and
hosted by the Gish
Film Theater, Curator Dr. Ralph Wolfe.
The organizer of
the series is the Department of German, Russian
& East Asian
Languages (419-372-2268).
This fallıs series includes five documentary films, one of
them an Academy Award winner. Several correspond thematically or by country of
origin to feature films in the series.
14 September
Bride and Prejudice
India, 2004 (111 mins.)
director: Gurinder Chadha
Bollywood version of Jane Austenıs classic novel, set in an
Indian village. One of four willful daughters—they all have marital
prospects—in the family meets an American businessman who seems to be a
match. They meet again in the denouement in California.
21 September
Swimming Pool
France, 2003
director: François Ozone
British mystery writer
leaves London for inspiration in a small town in southern France. She enjoys the locale and quiet until
her publisherıs French daughter arrives. The writerıs proper English
sensibilities are rocked by the younger womanıs reckless, sexually charged
lifestyle. Literature, life, and film get tangled up.
28 September
Born into Brothels: Calcuttaıs Red Light Kids
director: Zana Briski and Ross Kauffman
2004 (85 mins.)
Children of Calcutta prostitutes use the directorsı
equipment to capture the scences around them. The directors try to help the
children. 2005 Oscar for best documentary film, best film at 2004 Cleveland
International Film Festival, and audience award at 2004 Sundance.
12 October
Cidade de Deus (City
of God)
Brazil, 2002, 138 mins.
director: Fernando Meirelles
Cidade de Deus is a 1960s housing project that became
one of the poorest and most dangerous parts of Rio de Janeiro Busca-Pe is
a poor child who turns an artistic eye on the horror around him. Becoming a
professional photographer, he tries to capture the humanity in his
surroundings.
19 October
Soy Cuba / Ia
Kuba (I Am Cuba)
Mikhail Kalatazov, 1964
USSR/Cuba, 141 mins.
Cubaıs version of a Sergei Eisenstein and Jean-Luc Godard (Breathless) film is a wild celebration of Communist kitsch,
mixing Slavic solemnity with Latin sensuality. The plots reveal the seductive,
decadent world of Batistaıs Cuba. Directed by the Georgian-born (1903)
Kalatozishvili. Perhaps the most beautiful film you will ever see.
26 October
Yuki Yukite shingun (The Emperor's Naked Army Marches On)
Japan, 1987 (122 mins.)
director: Kazuo Hara
62-year-old Okuzaki Kenzo, a survivor of the battlefields of
New Guinea in World War II, interviews survivors and relatives in search of
elusive truth. His confrontation with
a former officer sheds light on some atrocities. This documentary took
five years to make.
2 November
Nalini by Day, Nancy by Night
India, 2005 (27 mins.)
director: Sonali Gulati
Witty documentary account of visits to call centers in India
points to
complex consequences of one apsect of globalization. The
director
emigrated from India to the U.S.
God Sleeps in Rwanda
directors: Kimberlee Acquaro and Stacy Sherman
Rwanda/U.S., 2004 (28 mins.)
Documentary portraits of five women remaking their lives
after the catastrophe
of 1994. A filmic record of the brutality and picture of
strength that gives hope.
9 November
Verdict on Auschwitz
Germany, 1993 (180 mins.)
Cinematography: Armin Alker,
Dominik Schunk
Editor: Sigrid Rienaecker
Producer: Gerhard Hehrleine
Documents the first Auschwitz
trial, held in Frankfurt am Main, 1963–65. In preparation for five years,
this trial included 360 witnesses from nineteen countries (including 211
survivors and 54 members of the Auschwitz-SS) in proceedings against 21 members
of the SS and 1 prisoner. After an eighteen-month hearing, the verdicts were
pronounced in one of the most significant trials in German legal history The
whole world followed the dramatic proceedings.
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