UM’s Dr. Corina Kesler will hold a lecture on the (mis)use of the utopian impulse for the purposes of nation-building during two distinct periods: the communist era and post-socialist Romania of the twenty-first century. Following the lecture, there will be the screening of Tuesday after Christmas (Marti, dupa Craciun) (dir. Radu Munteanu, 2010) at 5 pm, and Q and A following the screening.

Tuesday After Christmas (Marti, dupa Craciun) (2010; dir. Radu Munteanu, English subtitles, 99 min) Paul Hanganu loves two women: Adriana his wife and the mother of their daughter, the woman with whom he's shared the thrills of the past ten years; and Raluca the woman who has made him redefine himself. He has to leave one of them before Christmas.

This program is part of the Fourth Annual Romanian Film Festival at UMMA. Please also join us Saturday and Sunday, November 17–18 for screenings of Philanthropy (dir. Nae Caranfil, 2002), and The Phantom Father (Tatal fantoma) (dir. Lucian Georgescu, 2011). And don’t miss a talk by visiting director Bogdan George Apetri and screening of his award-winning Outbound (Periferic) (2010) on November 3.