For financial reasons American film distributors screen mostly films made in this country and either ignore or give very small distributions to some very good films made abroad. We will screen six films from six different countries. We will talk about them and certainly discuss film as an international medium that brings us an awareness of people and cultures from other places, perhaps better than any other art form. Here is a tentative list of the films we will see and discuss: “Bashu, the Little Stranger” (Iran 1989); “My Father, My Lord” (Israel 2007); “4 Months, 3 Weeks and 2 Days” (Rumania 2007); “Alamar” (Mexico 2009); “The Japanese Wife” (India 2010); and “Poetry” (South Korea 2010).

Instructor Ira Konigsberg is Professor Emeritus of Film at U-M.

These sessions meet Fridays, March 11 through April 15.