Happening @ Michigan https://events.umich.edu/list/rss RSS Feed for Happening @ Michigan Events at the University of Michigan. Film screening: And Then They Came For Us (April 25, 2018 7:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/50526 50526-11791011@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, April 25, 2018 7:00pm
Location: Rackham Graduate School (Horace H.)
Organized By: Gerald R. Ford School of Public Policy

About the Film:
Seventy-five years ago, Executive Order 9066 paved the way to the profound violation of constitutional rights that resulted in the forced incarceration of 120,000 Japanese Americans. Featuring George Takei and many others who were incarcerated, as well as newly rediscovered photographs of Dorothea Lange, And Then They Came for Us brings history into the present, retelling this difficult story and following Japanese American activists as they speak out against the Muslim registry and travel ban. Knowing our history is the first step to ensuring we do not repeat it. And Then They Came for Us is a cautionary and inspiring tale for these dark times. Please partner with us to share this critical story.

"It was a failure of American democracy, and yet because most Americans are not aware of that dark chapter of American history, it's about to be repeated."
- George Takei, Actor and Activist



Co-sponsored by the Gerald R. Ford School of Public Policy, Take on Hate, ACLU Michigan, JACL-Detroit (Japanese American Citizens League), Detroit CAIR, Zeitouna, ICPJ (Interfaith Council for Peace & Justice), Women's Action Network, WICIR (Washtenaw Interfaith Coalition for Immigrant Rights), MRDI (Michigan Roundtable for Diversity & Inclusion, YABA (Yemeni American Benevolent Association)

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Film Screening Wed, 28 Feb 2018 14:54:28 -0500 2018-04-25T19:00:00-04:00 2018-04-25T21:00:00-04:00 Rackham Graduate School (Horace H.) Gerald R. Ford School of Public Policy Film Screening And Then They Came For Us
CMENAS & AANM Film Screening. In the Last Days of the City (May 4, 2018 7:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/51707 51707-12202562@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, May 4, 2018 7:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Center for Middle Eastern and North African Studies

Join the Arab American National Museum and CMENAS as we host the Michigan Premiere of Tamer El Said’s ambitious debut feature film, In the Last Days of the City. The film showcases the fictional story of a filmmaker from downtown Cairo, as he struggles to capture the soul of a city on edge while facing loss in his own life.

Shot in Cairo, Beirut, Baghdad and Berlin during the two years before the outbreak of revolution in Egypt, the film’s multi-layered stories are a visually rich exploration of friendship, loneliness and life in cities shaped by the shadows of war and adversity. Immediately following the screening, director Tamer El Said will join the audience for an intimate talkback, live!

Director: Tamer El Said
Year: 2016
Country: Egypt, Germany, Great Britian, United Arab Emirates
In Arabic with English subtitles
Run time: 118 minutes

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Film Screening Thu, 05 Apr 2018 11:47:32 -0400 2018-05-04T19:00:00-04:00 2018-05-04T21:00:00-04:00 Off Campus Location Center for Middle Eastern and North African Studies Film Screening film_image
Film and Discussion. Scandal in Ivansk (May 10, 2018 5:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/52224 52224-12556709@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, May 10, 2018 5:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Copernicus Center for Polish Studies

David Blumenfeld, director. In English and Polish (78 min., 2017). Followed by a discussion with Geneviève Zubrzycki, WCEE director. Part of the Ann Arbor Jewish Film Festival. Tickets and details at film.jccannarbor.org.

Sponsored by the JCC of Greater Ann Arbor and the Copernicus Program in Polish Studies.

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Film Screening Mon, 07 May 2018 10:47:25 -0400 2018-05-10T17:00:00-04:00 2018-05-10T19:00:00-04:00 Off Campus Location Copernicus Center for Polish Studies Film Screening Scandal in Ivansk
Cinetopia Film Festival (May 31, 2018 8:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/52207 52207-12556691@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, May 31, 2018 8:00am
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: International Institute

Created for the people of southeastern Michigan, the Cinetopia Film Festival features the best feature-length dramas, comedies, and documentaries from the world’s best film festivals (e.g. Sundance, Cannes, Venice, Toronto, Berlin, SXSW, Tribeca, etc.).

Please visit the website for more information and a complete schedule: www.cinetopiafestival.org

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Film Screening Thu, 17 May 2018 15:55:08 -0400 2018-05-31T08:00:00-04:00 2018-05-31T22:00:00-04:00 Off Campus Location International Institute Film Screening logo
LRCCS Cinetopia Film Screening | The Great Buddha+ (June 2, 2018 1:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/52463 52463-12793951@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Saturday, June 2, 2018 1:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Lieberthal-Rogel Center for Chinese Studies

Taiwan, 104 Minutes, Drama/Black Comedy, Minnan with Chinese & English Subtitles, Not Rated

The most anticipated Taiwanese film of the year is an extension of HUANG HSIN-YAO's 2014 award-winning short, The Great Buddha (the + in the feature's title was satirically added by the director as a reference to corporate naming trends.). Pickle (CRES CHUANG), a night security guard at a bronze statue factory, and Belly Button (BAMBOO CHEN), a recyclables collector, are best friends. While trying to kill time on the long nights spent in the security room, Belly Button suggests that they view the dash-camera footage of Pickle's rich boss, Kevin (LEON DAI). Watching the promiscuous meetings Kevin has with various women, they witness something they never should have known about. These images are like wormholes, taking Pickle, Belly Button, and the viewer from one universe into another, from the colourless existence of the poor and forgotten to the illuminated world of the powerful. -Toronto International Film Festival, 2017.

Purchase tickets ahead here: http://www.cinetopiafestival.org/show/the-great-buddha/

Sponsored by U-M Lieberthal-Rogel Center for Chinese Studies and Confucius Institute at U-M

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Film Screening Wed, 30 May 2018 08:11:44 -0400 2018-06-02T13:00:00-04:00 2018-06-02T15:00:00-04:00 Off Campus Location Lieberthal-Rogel Center for Chinese Studies Film Screening The Great Buddha+
LRCCS Cinetopia Film Screening | Angels Wear White (June 2, 2018 6:15pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/52464 52464-12793955@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Saturday, June 2, 2018 6:15pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Lieberthal-Rogel Center for Chinese Studies

China, 107 Minutes, Drama, Chinese with English subtitles, Not Rated

Ann Arbor, Award Winner, Chinese, Drama, Female Director, Films, Foreign Narrative, MT, ST

Working the graveyard shift at the reception desk of a sleepy maritime motel promises little excitement for teenage Mia — until one night she becomes the sole witness to an assault on two schoolgirls by a middle-aged man. Fearing the consequences of speaking up, Mia decides to keep quiet on the matter. Twelve-year-old victim Wen, however, quickly realizes that the violence she endured that night is only the first in a litany of troubles. With seemingly nowhere to run, Mia and Wen find themselves caught in an ever-tightening net that they alone can free themselves from. This second feature from the brilliant Chinese writer-director VIVIAN QU whisks us away to a small seaside village where tranquility is torn asunder by a terrible crime. A modern noir focused on complex female characters, Angels Wear White possesses a distinctive slow burn that may prove to be Qu’s signature. – Toronto International Film Festival, 2017.

Purchase tickets ahead here: http://www.cinetopiafestival.org/show/angels-wear-white/

Sponsored by U-M Lieberthal-Rogel Center for Chinese Studies and Confucius Institute at U-M.

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Film Screening Wed, 30 May 2018 08:49:01 -0400 2018-06-02T18:15:00-04:00 2018-06-02T20:15:00-04:00 Off Campus Location Lieberthal-Rogel Center for Chinese Studies Film Screening Angels Wear White
CJS Cinetopia Film Screening | The Big House (June 2, 2018 7:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/52371 52371-12652714@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Saturday, June 2, 2018 7:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Center for Japanese Studies

USA/Japan, 119 Minutes, Documentary, English, Not Rated

Ann Arbor, Michigan is the prototypical college town—a small city with a massive research university, a tradition of political radicalism and Michigan Stadium, the largest in the United States and the home of University of Michigan football. With a capacity of 107,601 the entire population of Ann Arbor fits in the stadium, which fans affectionately call “The Big House.” Michigan football goes back to 1879, and is known for its distinctive winged helmet and its fight song “The Victors.” But this direct-cinema documentary eschews gridiron grandeur to look closely at all the labor—from the cooks to the cops to the cleaners—that goes into hosting 100,000 people. Shot against the backdrop of the 2016 election and the rise of Donald Trump, it presents a microcosm of America by showing everything but the game.

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Film Screening Fri, 08 Jun 2018 14:33:56 -0400 2018-06-02T19:00:00-04:00 2018-06-02T21:00:00-04:00 Off Campus Location Center for Japanese Studies Film Screening CJS Cinetopia Film Screening | The Big House
CJS Cinetopia Film Screening | Night is Short, Walk on Girl (June 2, 2018 9:45pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/52366 52366-12650141@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Saturday, June 2, 2018 9:45pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Center for Japanese Studies

Japan, 92 Minutes, Anime/Comedy, Japanese with English subtitles, Not Rated

Night is Short, Walk on Girl takes place over the course of one strange and alcohol-drenched night, as a young woman known only as The Girl With Black Hair drinks her way through Kyoto. Along the way she encounters a panoply of odd and fantastical characters, all the while criss-crossing paths with senior student Senpai, who creates increasingly contrived reasons to run into her in an effort to win her heart. Winner of the Grand Prize at Ottawa Animation Festival, Night is Short, Walk on Girl is an "I guess it's romantic?" comedy for the modern age, and a celebration of the unconventional, confusing routes that love and life can take

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Film Screening Wed, 16 May 2018 11:56:04 -0400 2018-06-02T21:45:00-04:00 2018-06-02T23:15:00-04:00 Off Campus Location Center for Japanese Studies Film Screening CJS Cinetopia Film Screening | Night is Short, Walk on Girl
LRCCS Cinetopia Film Screening | Angels Wear White (June 3, 2018 12:15pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/52464 52464-12793956@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Sunday, June 3, 2018 12:15pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Lieberthal-Rogel Center for Chinese Studies

China, 107 Minutes, Drama, Chinese with English subtitles, Not Rated

Ann Arbor, Award Winner, Chinese, Drama, Female Director, Films, Foreign Narrative, MT, ST

Working the graveyard shift at the reception desk of a sleepy maritime motel promises little excitement for teenage Mia — until one night she becomes the sole witness to an assault on two schoolgirls by a middle-aged man. Fearing the consequences of speaking up, Mia decides to keep quiet on the matter. Twelve-year-old victim Wen, however, quickly realizes that the violence she endured that night is only the first in a litany of troubles. With seemingly nowhere to run, Mia and Wen find themselves caught in an ever-tightening net that they alone can free themselves from. This second feature from the brilliant Chinese writer-director VIVIAN QU whisks us away to a small seaside village where tranquility is torn asunder by a terrible crime. A modern noir focused on complex female characters, Angels Wear White possesses a distinctive slow burn that may prove to be Qu’s signature. – Toronto International Film Festival, 2017.

Purchase tickets ahead here: http://www.cinetopiafestival.org/show/angels-wear-white/

Sponsored by U-M Lieberthal-Rogel Center for Chinese Studies and Confucius Institute at U-M.

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Film Screening Wed, 30 May 2018 08:49:01 -0400 2018-06-03T12:15:00-04:00 2018-06-03T14:15:00-04:00 Off Campus Location Lieberthal-Rogel Center for Chinese Studies Film Screening Angels Wear White
LRCCS Cinetopia Film Screening | The Great Buddha+ (June 3, 2018 4:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/52463 52463-12793952@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Sunday, June 3, 2018 4:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Lieberthal-Rogel Center for Chinese Studies

Taiwan, 104 Minutes, Drama/Black Comedy, Minnan with Chinese & English Subtitles, Not Rated

The most anticipated Taiwanese film of the year is an extension of HUANG HSIN-YAO's 2014 award-winning short, The Great Buddha (the + in the feature's title was satirically added by the director as a reference to corporate naming trends.). Pickle (CRES CHUANG), a night security guard at a bronze statue factory, and Belly Button (BAMBOO CHEN), a recyclables collector, are best friends. While trying to kill time on the long nights spent in the security room, Belly Button suggests that they view the dash-camera footage of Pickle's rich boss, Kevin (LEON DAI). Watching the promiscuous meetings Kevin has with various women, they witness something they never should have known about. These images are like wormholes, taking Pickle, Belly Button, and the viewer from one universe into another, from the colourless existence of the poor and forgotten to the illuminated world of the powerful. -Toronto International Film Festival, 2017.

Purchase tickets ahead here: http://www.cinetopiafestival.org/show/the-great-buddha/

Sponsored by U-M Lieberthal-Rogel Center for Chinese Studies and Confucius Institute at U-M

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Film Screening Wed, 30 May 2018 08:11:44 -0400 2018-06-03T16:00:00-04:00 2018-06-03T18:00:00-04:00 Off Campus Location Lieberthal-Rogel Center for Chinese Studies Film Screening The Great Buddha+
Film: Remember My Name (June 4, 2018 7:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/52188 52188-12526333@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Monday, June 4, 2018 7:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: University Library

Directed by Alan Rudolph and released in 1978, this Thriller/Drama is part of the 2018 Cinetopia Film Festival in conjunction with the symposium The Unreal Reality of Alan Rudolph: Conversations with the Filmmaker & Collaborators. Buy tickets online through Cinetopia or at the door.

About the movie:
Released from prison, a convict foregoes a fresh start in favor of harassing an ex; this familiar outline is startlingly recalibrated by Alan Rudolph dramatically and stylistically, not least with against-type casting of Geraldine Chaplin as the jailbird and Anthony Perkins as the ex. The soundtrack pulses with the oeuvre of blues/jazz legend Alberta Hunter. With Moses Gunn, Jeff Goldblum, Berry Berenson (married in real life to Perkins), and (in her film debut) Alfre Woodard.

Full symposium schedule: https://www.lib.umich.edu/announcements/symposium-celebrates-unreal-reality-indie-director-alan-rudolph

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Film Screening Fri, 04 May 2018 11:50:55 -0400 2018-06-04T19:00:00-04:00 2018-06-04T20:45:00-04:00 Off Campus Location University Library Film Screening Remember My Name
CJS Cinetopia Film Screening | Night is Short, Walk on Girl (June 4, 2018 7:45pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/52366 52366-12650142@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Monday, June 4, 2018 7:45pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Center for Japanese Studies

Japan, 92 Minutes, Anime/Comedy, Japanese with English subtitles, Not Rated

Night is Short, Walk on Girl takes place over the course of one strange and alcohol-drenched night, as a young woman known only as The Girl With Black Hair drinks her way through Kyoto. Along the way she encounters a panoply of odd and fantastical characters, all the while criss-crossing paths with senior student Senpai, who creates increasingly contrived reasons to run into her in an effort to win her heart. Winner of the Grand Prize at Ottawa Animation Festival, Night is Short, Walk on Girl is an "I guess it's romantic?" comedy for the modern age, and a celebration of the unconventional, confusing routes that love and life can take

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Film Screening Wed, 16 May 2018 11:56:04 -0400 2018-06-04T19:45:00-04:00 2018-06-04T21:15:00-04:00 Off Campus Location Center for Japanese Studies Film Screening CJS Cinetopia Film Screening | Night is Short, Walk on Girl
Film: Choose Me (June 4, 2018 9:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/52189 52189-12526334@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Monday, June 4, 2018 9:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: University Library

Directed by Alan Rudolph and released in 1984, this Comedy/Drama/Romance is part of the 2018 Cinetopia Film Festival in conjunction with the symposium The Unreal Reality of Alan Rudolph: Conversations with the Filmmaker & Collaborators. Buy tickets through Cinetopia or at the door.

About the movie:
Rudolph hit a high note with this utterly seductive and knowing L.A. story, popular at the Quad in its initial run. On the night shift, “The Love Line” radio host Geneviève Bujold offers romantic counseling, which she herself could use given unresolved issues with erratic lover Keith Carradine, his other lover Lesley Ann Warren, her married lover Patrick Bauchau, and his frustrated wife Rae Dawn Chong. The title song and others are performed on the soundtrack by Teddy Pendergrass.

Full symposium schedule: https://www.lib.umich.edu/announcements/symposium-celebrates-unreal-reality-indie-director-alan-rudolph

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Film Screening Fri, 04 May 2018 11:51:18 -0400 2018-06-04T21:00:00-04:00 2018-06-04T23:00:00-04:00 Off Campus Location University Library Film Screening Choose Me
LRCCS Cinetopia Film Screening | Angels Wear White (June 5, 2018 4:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/52464 52464-12793957@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, June 5, 2018 4:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Lieberthal-Rogel Center for Chinese Studies

China, 107 Minutes, Drama, Chinese with English subtitles, Not Rated

Ann Arbor, Award Winner, Chinese, Drama, Female Director, Films, Foreign Narrative, MT, ST

Working the graveyard shift at the reception desk of a sleepy maritime motel promises little excitement for teenage Mia — until one night she becomes the sole witness to an assault on two schoolgirls by a middle-aged man. Fearing the consequences of speaking up, Mia decides to keep quiet on the matter. Twelve-year-old victim Wen, however, quickly realizes that the violence she endured that night is only the first in a litany of troubles. With seemingly nowhere to run, Mia and Wen find themselves caught in an ever-tightening net that they alone can free themselves from. This second feature from the brilliant Chinese writer-director VIVIAN QU whisks us away to a small seaside village where tranquility is torn asunder by a terrible crime. A modern noir focused on complex female characters, Angels Wear White possesses a distinctive slow burn that may prove to be Qu’s signature. – Toronto International Film Festival, 2017.

Purchase tickets ahead here: http://www.cinetopiafestival.org/show/angels-wear-white/

Sponsored by U-M Lieberthal-Rogel Center for Chinese Studies and Confucius Institute at U-M.

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Film Screening Wed, 30 May 2018 08:49:01 -0400 2018-06-05T16:00:00-04:00 2018-06-05T18:00:00-04:00 Off Campus Location Lieberthal-Rogel Center for Chinese Studies Film Screening Angels Wear White
Film: The Moderns (June 5, 2018 8:15pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/52191 52191-12526336@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, June 5, 2018 8:15pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: University Library

Directed by Alan Rudolph and released in 1988, this Comedy/Drama/Romance is part of the 2018 Cinetopia Film Festival in conjunction with the symposium The Unreal Reality of Alan Rudolph: Conversations with the Filmmaker & Collaborators. Buy tickets via Cinetopia or at the door.

About the movie:
Paris, 1926. A time when anything could happen…and usually did. At the center of this world is Nick Hart (Keith Carradine), a struggling painter who makes a meager living drawing caricatures at his favorite cafe. Nick longs for success and even agrees to forge masterpieces for a wealthy divorcee (Geraldine Chaplin). But what he truly desires is Rachel (Linda Fiorentino), the alluring wife of an obsessively jealous and lethally dangerous businessman.

Full symposium schedule: https://www.lib.umich.edu/announcements/symposium-celebrates-unreal-reality-indie-director-alan-rudolph

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Film Screening Fri, 04 May 2018 11:50:09 -0400 2018-06-05T20:15:00-04:00 2018-06-05T22:30:00-04:00 Off Campus Location University Library Film Screening The Moderns
LRCCS Cinetopia Film Screening | The Great Buddha+ (June 5, 2018 9:30pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/52463 52463-12793953@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, June 5, 2018 9:30pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Lieberthal-Rogel Center for Chinese Studies

Taiwan, 104 Minutes, Drama/Black Comedy, Minnan with Chinese & English Subtitles, Not Rated

The most anticipated Taiwanese film of the year is an extension of HUANG HSIN-YAO's 2014 award-winning short, The Great Buddha (the + in the feature's title was satirically added by the director as a reference to corporate naming trends.). Pickle (CRES CHUANG), a night security guard at a bronze statue factory, and Belly Button (BAMBOO CHEN), a recyclables collector, are best friends. While trying to kill time on the long nights spent in the security room, Belly Button suggests that they view the dash-camera footage of Pickle's rich boss, Kevin (LEON DAI). Watching the promiscuous meetings Kevin has with various women, they witness something they never should have known about. These images are like wormholes, taking Pickle, Belly Button, and the viewer from one universe into another, from the colourless existence of the poor and forgotten to the illuminated world of the powerful. -Toronto International Film Festival, 2017.

Purchase tickets ahead here: http://www.cinetopiafestival.org/show/the-great-buddha/

Sponsored by U-M Lieberthal-Rogel Center for Chinese Studies and Confucius Institute at U-M

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Film Screening Wed, 30 May 2018 08:11:44 -0400 2018-06-05T21:30:00-04:00 2018-06-05T23:30:00-04:00 Off Campus Location Lieberthal-Rogel Center for Chinese Studies Film Screening The Great Buddha+
LRCCS Cinetopia Film Screening | Crosscurrent (June 6, 2018 6:45pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/52465 52465-12793959@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, June 6, 2018 6:45pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Lieberthal-Rogel Center for Chinese Studies

China. 116 minutes. Drama. Mandarin with subtitles. Not Rated.

A young cargo ship captain named Gao Chun (Qin Hao) pilots his boat up the Yangtze River and ponders the recent death of his father in this allegorical drama from director Yang Chao. During the trip, he encounters numerous symbols representing China’s past, present and future, including a mysterious woman who is present at every port along the way. The woman, he soon learns, is some sort of magical being who seems to grow younger as the ship inches closer to the source of the Yangtze.

Purchase tickets ahead here: http://www.cinetopiafestival.org/show/crosscurrent/

Sponsored by U-M Lieberthal-Rogel Center for Chinese Studies and Confucius Institute at U-M.

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Film Screening Wed, 30 May 2018 08:58:57 -0400 2018-06-06T18:45:00-04:00 2018-06-06T20:45:00-04:00 Off Campus Location Lieberthal-Rogel Center for Chinese Studies Film Screening Crosscurrent
CJS Cinetopia Film Screening | Of Love and Law (June 6, 2018 7:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/52370 52370-12650144@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, June 6, 2018 7:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Center for Japanese Studies

Japan, 94 Minutes, Documentary, Not Rated, Japanese with English Subtitles
SPECIAL PREVIEW! Fumi and Kazu are partners in love and law; they run the first law firm in Japan set up by an openly gay couple. As lawyers driven by their own experience of being outsiders, they attract a range of clients who reveal the hidden diversity of a country that prides itself for collective obedience, politeness and conformity. Tired of being silenced and made to feel invisible, the lawyers and their misfit clients expose and challenge the archaic status quo that deems them second-class citizens.

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Film Screening Wed, 16 May 2018 12:07:06 -0400 2018-06-06T19:00:00-04:00 2018-06-06T20:30:00-04:00 Off Campus Location Center for Japanese Studies Film Screening CJS Cinetopia Film Screening | Of Love and Law
CJS Cinetopia Film Screening | Of Love and Law (June 7, 2018 4:15pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/52370 52370-12650145@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, June 7, 2018 4:15pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Center for Japanese Studies

Japan, 94 Minutes, Documentary, Not Rated, Japanese with English Subtitles
SPECIAL PREVIEW! Fumi and Kazu are partners in love and law; they run the first law firm in Japan set up by an openly gay couple. As lawyers driven by their own experience of being outsiders, they attract a range of clients who reveal the hidden diversity of a country that prides itself for collective obedience, politeness and conformity. Tired of being silenced and made to feel invisible, the lawyers and their misfit clients expose and challenge the archaic status quo that deems them second-class citizens.

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Film Screening Wed, 16 May 2018 12:07:06 -0400 2018-06-07T16:15:00-04:00 2018-06-07T17:45:00-04:00 Off Campus Location Center for Japanese Studies Film Screening CJS Cinetopia Film Screening | Of Love and Law
Thirst for Justice: Documentary Film Screening (June 8, 2018 4:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/52564 52564-12850986@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, June 8, 2018 4:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: School for Environment and Sustainability

Join filmmaker Leana Hosea for a screening of the director’s cut of her new documentary on water justice. An expert panel on water issues will follow, offering you the chance to ask questions and give feedback to shape a film in progress. This event is presented in conjunction with the Cinetopia Film Festival.

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Film Screening Tue, 05 Jun 2018 14:44:12 -0400 2018-06-08T16:00:00-04:00 2018-06-08T18:00:00-04:00 Off Campus Location School for Environment and Sustainability Film Screening Thirst for Justice
LRCCS Cinetopia Film Screening | Angels Wear White (June 8, 2018 7:15pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/52464 52464-12793958@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, June 8, 2018 7:15pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Lieberthal-Rogel Center for Chinese Studies

China, 107 Minutes, Drama, Chinese with English subtitles, Not Rated

Ann Arbor, Award Winner, Chinese, Drama, Female Director, Films, Foreign Narrative, MT, ST

Working the graveyard shift at the reception desk of a sleepy maritime motel promises little excitement for teenage Mia — until one night she becomes the sole witness to an assault on two schoolgirls by a middle-aged man. Fearing the consequences of speaking up, Mia decides to keep quiet on the matter. Twelve-year-old victim Wen, however, quickly realizes that the violence she endured that night is only the first in a litany of troubles. With seemingly nowhere to run, Mia and Wen find themselves caught in an ever-tightening net that they alone can free themselves from. This second feature from the brilliant Chinese writer-director VIVIAN QU whisks us away to a small seaside village where tranquility is torn asunder by a terrible crime. A modern noir focused on complex female characters, Angels Wear White possesses a distinctive slow burn that may prove to be Qu’s signature. – Toronto International Film Festival, 2017.

Purchase tickets ahead here: http://www.cinetopiafestival.org/show/angels-wear-white/

Sponsored by U-M Lieberthal-Rogel Center for Chinese Studies and Confucius Institute at U-M.

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Film Screening Wed, 30 May 2018 08:49:01 -0400 2018-06-08T19:15:00-04:00 2018-06-08T21:15:00-04:00 Off Campus Location Lieberthal-Rogel Center for Chinese Studies Film Screening Angels Wear White
CJS Cinetopia Film Screening | Night is Short, Walk on Girl (June 8, 2018 9:45pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/52366 52366-12650143@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, June 8, 2018 9:45pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Center for Japanese Studies

Japan, 92 Minutes, Anime/Comedy, Japanese with English subtitles, Not Rated

Night is Short, Walk on Girl takes place over the course of one strange and alcohol-drenched night, as a young woman known only as The Girl With Black Hair drinks her way through Kyoto. Along the way she encounters a panoply of odd and fantastical characters, all the while criss-crossing paths with senior student Senpai, who creates increasingly contrived reasons to run into her in an effort to win her heart. Winner of the Grand Prize at Ottawa Animation Festival, Night is Short, Walk on Girl is an "I guess it's romantic?" comedy for the modern age, and a celebration of the unconventional, confusing routes that love and life can take

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Film Screening Wed, 16 May 2018 11:56:04 -0400 2018-06-08T21:45:00-04:00 2018-06-08T23:15:00-04:00 Off Campus Location Center for Japanese Studies Film Screening CJS Cinetopia Film Screening | Night is Short, Walk on Girl
CJS Cinetopia Film Screening | Of Love and Law (June 9, 2018 7:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/52370 52370-12650146@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Saturday, June 9, 2018 7:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Center for Japanese Studies

Japan, 94 Minutes, Documentary, Not Rated, Japanese with English Subtitles
SPECIAL PREVIEW! Fumi and Kazu are partners in love and law; they run the first law firm in Japan set up by an openly gay couple. As lawyers driven by their own experience of being outsiders, they attract a range of clients who reveal the hidden diversity of a country that prides itself for collective obedience, politeness and conformity. Tired of being silenced and made to feel invisible, the lawyers and their misfit clients expose and challenge the archaic status quo that deems them second-class citizens.

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Film Screening Wed, 16 May 2018 12:07:06 -0400 2018-06-09T19:00:00-04:00 2018-06-09T20:30:00-04:00 Off Campus Location Center for Japanese Studies Film Screening CJS Cinetopia Film Screening | Of Love and Law
CJS Cinetopia Film Screening | The Big House (June 10, 2018 1:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/52371 52371-12652715@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Sunday, June 10, 2018 1:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Center for Japanese Studies

USA/Japan, 119 Minutes, Documentary, English, Not Rated

Ann Arbor, Michigan is the prototypical college town—a small city with a massive research university, a tradition of political radicalism and Michigan Stadium, the largest in the United States and the home of University of Michigan football. With a capacity of 107,601 the entire population of Ann Arbor fits in the stadium, which fans affectionately call “The Big House.” Michigan football goes back to 1879, and is known for its distinctive winged helmet and its fight song “The Victors.” But this direct-cinema documentary eschews gridiron grandeur to look closely at all the labor—from the cooks to the cops to the cleaners—that goes into hosting 100,000 people. Shot against the backdrop of the 2016 election and the rise of Donald Trump, it presents a microcosm of America by showing everything but the game.

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Film Screening Fri, 08 Jun 2018 14:33:56 -0400 2018-06-10T13:00:00-04:00 2018-06-10T15:00:00-04:00 Off Campus Location Center for Japanese Studies Film Screening CJS Cinetopia Film Screening | The Big House
CJS Cinetopia Film Screening | Of Love and Law (June 10, 2018 5:15pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/52370 52370-12650147@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Sunday, June 10, 2018 5:15pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Center for Japanese Studies

Japan, 94 Minutes, Documentary, Not Rated, Japanese with English Subtitles
SPECIAL PREVIEW! Fumi and Kazu are partners in love and law; they run the first law firm in Japan set up by an openly gay couple. As lawyers driven by their own experience of being outsiders, they attract a range of clients who reveal the hidden diversity of a country that prides itself for collective obedience, politeness and conformity. Tired of being silenced and made to feel invisible, the lawyers and their misfit clients expose and challenge the archaic status quo that deems them second-class citizens.

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Film Screening Wed, 16 May 2018 12:07:06 -0400 2018-06-10T17:15:00-04:00 2018-06-10T18:45:00-04:00 Off Campus Location Center for Japanese Studies Film Screening CJS Cinetopia Film Screening | Of Love and Law
Ann Arbor Japan Week | Free screening of "A Letter to Momo" (June 17, 2018 1:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/52372 52372-12652717@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Sunday, June 17, 2018 1:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Center for Japanese Studies

Japan, 120 minutes, Dubbed in English, Rated PG-13

FREE SCREENING as part of Ann Arbor Japan Week Kick-off! Momo is recovering from her father's death and her mother's decision to move their family from Tokyo to a remote island, when she discovers a message from her father that causes strange events to occur. Directed by Hiroyuki Okiura.

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Film Screening Mon, 11 Jun 2018 08:15:26 -0400 2018-06-17T13:00:00-04:00 2018-06-17T15:00:00-04:00 Off Campus Location Center for Japanese Studies Film Screening Ann Arbor Japan Week | Free screening of "A Letter to Momo"
Opening reception: The Bearded Lady Project film screening and portrait exhibit (July 12, 2018 6:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/52853 52853-13090524@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, July 12, 2018 6:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Ecology and Evolutionary Biology

Opening reception for The Bearded Lady Project portrait exhibit and a film screening. University of Michigan Professor Catherine Badgley and recent U-M doctoral graduate Katie Loughney are the speakers.

American Frame donated frames for the exhibition.

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Film Screening Thu, 05 Jul 2018 08:59:23 -0400 2018-07-12T18:00:00-04:00 2018-07-12T19:30:00-04:00 Off Campus Location Ecology and Evolutionary Biology Film Screening flyer for Bearded Lady and empowerment events
Movie on the Diag (August 30, 2018 8:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/54339 54339-13572324@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, August 30, 2018 8:00pm
Location: Diag - Central Campus
Organized By: Campus Information

Find us on the diag to watch a free screening of Marvel's Black Panther.

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Film Screening Tue, 28 Aug 2018 11:19:30 -0400 2018-08-30T20:00:00-04:00 2018-08-30T22:00:00-04:00 Diag - Central Campus Campus Information Film Screening the diag
Movie on the Diag & Grove (August 30, 2018 8:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/54108 54108-13528446@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, August 30, 2018 8:00pm
Location: Diag - Central Campus
Organized By: Center for Campus Involvement

Join us on the Central Campus Diag and North Campus Grove for a free screening of the Black Panther!

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Film Screening Thu, 23 Aug 2018 11:14:40 -0400 2018-08-30T20:00:00-04:00 2018-08-30T23:00:00-04:00 Diag - Central Campus Center for Campus Involvement Film Screening Calendar Ad for the Black Panther
Movie on the Diag & Grove (August 30, 2018 8:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/54108 54108-13528450@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, August 30, 2018 8:00pm
Location: The Grove
Organized By: Center for Campus Involvement

Join us on the Central Campus Diag and North Campus Grove for a free screening of the Black Panther!

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Film Screening Thu, 23 Aug 2018 11:14:40 -0400 2018-08-30T20:00:00-04:00 2018-08-30T23:00:00-04:00 The Grove Center for Campus Involvement Film Screening Calendar Ad for the Black Panther
Movie on the Grove (August 30, 2018 8:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/54336 54336-13572318@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, August 30, 2018 8:00pm
Location: The Grove
Organized By: Campus Information

Head on over to the North Campus Grove to watch a free screening of Marvel's Black Panther!

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Film Screening Tue, 28 Aug 2018 11:16:36 -0400 2018-08-30T20:00:00-04:00 2018-08-30T23:00:00-04:00 The Grove Campus Information Film Screening The Grove
Michigan History Presents: BlacKkKlansman (September 7, 2018 4:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/54575 54575-13601153@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, September 7, 2018 4:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Department of History

The Department of History presents a special screening of Spike Lee's BlacKkKlansman at the State Theatre. Free admission for those with a University of Michigan ID (M-Card) on a first-come, first-served basis. Seating is limited.

About the film: From visionary filmmaker Spike Lee comes the incredible true story of an American hero. It’s the early 1970s, and Ron Stallworth (John David Washington) is the first black detective to serve in the Colorado Springs Police Department. Determined to make a name for himself, Stallworth bravely sets out on a dangerous mission: infiltrate and expose the Ku Klux Klan. The young detective soon recruits a more seasoned colleague, Flip Zimmerman (Adam Driver), into the undercover investigation of a lifetime. Together, they team up to take down the extremist hate group as the organization aims to sanitize its violent rhetoric to appeal to the mainstream. 134 minutes. Drama. NR.

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Film Screening Fri, 31 Aug 2018 14:09:24 -0400 2018-09-07T16:00:00-04:00 2018-09-07T18:30:00-04:00 Off Campus Location Department of History Film Screening BlackkKlansman Poster
Fall Film Series: Contemporary Cinema from the Islamic World (September 18, 2018 7:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/53846 53846-13470104@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, September 18, 2018 7:00pm
Location: East Quadrangle
Organized By: Residential College

During the First Intifada, members of the Palestinian village of Beit Sahour procure 18 cows in order to start producing their own milk as an act of civil disobedience against Israeli occupation. When the cows are deemed a national security threat, they become wanted criminals. This true story is told through a combination of documentary interviews and Claymation sequences which tell the story from the perspective of the cows. (75 minutes)

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Film Screening Fri, 17 Aug 2018 12:19:16 -0400 2018-09-18T19:00:00-04:00 2018-09-18T22:00:00-04:00 East Quadrangle Residential College Film Screening Fall Film Series
Screening of Martha (Rainer Werner Fassbinder, 1974) (September 19, 2018 6:30pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/55248 55248-13707120@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, September 19, 2018 6:30pm
Location: North Quad
Organized By: Germanic Languages & Literatures

This made-for-tv melodrama stars Margit Carstensen as the eponymous Martha, a librarian who meets her future husband Helmut (Karlheinz Böhm) on vacation abroad. Once married, Helmut’s domineering and sadistic behavior leads Martha to believe that her new husband is trying to kill her. Featuring the most famous tracking shot in Rainer Werner Fassbinder’s oeuvre, this New German Cinema gem recalls paranoid women’s films from the 1940s and Douglas Sirk’s 1950s melodramas. Content note: depictions of emotional and physical abuse. Screened in German with English subtitles.

This event is part of the monthly German Film Series and is sponsored by the University of Michigan Department of Germanic Languages and Literatures and the Max Kade House. See https://lsa.umich.edu/german for additional dates and films.

Each month, a German faculty, lecturer, or graduate student introduces and screens a different German-language film. Dinner will be provided at 6:30 pm, followed by the film at 7 pm.

Free and open to the public.

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Film Screening Mon, 17 Sep 2018 14:31:33 -0400 2018-09-19T18:30:00-04:00 2018-09-19T21:00:00-04:00 North Quad Germanic Languages & Literatures Film Screening Martha 1974
Freedom Riders (September 20, 2018 6:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/54925 54925-13654167@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, September 20, 2018 6:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Michigan Community Scholars Program

"Freedom Riders is the powerful harrowing and ultimately inspirational story of six months in 1961 that changed America forever. More than 400 black and white Americans risked their lives for simply traveling together on buses and trains as they journeyed through the Deep South. Deliberately violating Jim Crow laws in order to test and challenge a segregated interstate travel system, the Freedom Riders met with bitter racism and mob violence along the way, sorely testing their belief in nonviolent activism."

Following the film, a panel will speak and lead discussion and Q&A, including
-Scott Ellsworth, Lecturer in AfroAmerican and African Studies at the University of Michigan
-Ronald Woods, Lecturer in AfroAmerican and African Studies at the University of Michigan and Professor of Africology and African American Studies at Eastern Michigan University

This event is free and co-sponsored by U-M Michigan Community Scholars Program and the Ann Arbor District Library. Contact Michigan Community Scholars Program with questions at mcsprogram@umich.edu

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Film Screening Tue, 11 Sep 2018 07:15:34 -0400 2018-09-20T18:00:00-04:00 2018-09-20T20:00:00-04:00 Off Campus Location Michigan Community Scholars Program Film Screening MCSP Film Screening- Freedom Riders
Arab American National Museum and CMENAS Film Screening. Arab Film Series: “Time for Ilhan” (September 20, 2018 7:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/54844 54844-13645314@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, September 20, 2018 7:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Center for Middle Eastern and North African Studies

The Arab Film Series at the Arab American National Museum kicks off this fall on Thursday, Sept. 20 with the new documentary about America's first Somali American lawmaker, Minnesota's Ilhan Omar. "Time for Ilhan" shadows Ilhan and her scrappy group of dedicated campaign staffers throughout the entire campaign’s dramatic uphill battle.

A fresh take on the old story of the American Dream, the film offers an inspiring, stereotype-busting portrait of a rising political star and a vision of what is truly possible for women and New Americans in politics today. Up against a 43-year incumbent, Omar is a Muslim, refugee, a woman of color who challenges the party’s status quo and defies gender norms within her own community. A talkback will follow the film.

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The Arab Film Series is made possible in part by Cinema Lamont, Detroit SheTown Film Festival, Cinema Detroit, Henry Ford College, FINAL GIRLS, Center for Arab American Studies, TAKE ON HATE, The Seventh Art Stand, The Henry Ford, and the Dearborn Public Library.

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Film Screening Wed, 05 Sep 2018 16:37:29 -0400 2018-09-20T19:00:00-04:00 2018-09-20T22:00:00-04:00 Off Campus Location Center for Middle Eastern and North African Studies Film Screening Ilhan_image
CSEAS Film Screening. Thai Movie Night: Dorm (September 20, 2018 7:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/55422 55422-13725282@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, September 20, 2018 7:00pm
Location: North Quad
Organized By: Center for Southeast Asian Studies

When 12-year-old Ton transfers to an all-boys boarding school, he’s taunted by his peers and terrified by their tales about the ghosts that inhabit the school. Ton is utterly miserable – until he befriends a mysterious fellow pupil.

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Film Screening Fri, 14 Sep 2018 13:30:58 -0400 2018-09-20T19:00:00-04:00 2018-09-20T21:00:00-04:00 North Quad Center for Southeast Asian Studies Film Screening dorm_image
Carceral Studies Kickoff: Knife Skills Screening and Discussion (September 25, 2018 3:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/54074 54074-13521840@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, September 25, 2018 3:00pm
Location: Angell Hall
Organized By: Carceral Studies

Come join us as we kick off the school year and our new group! Learn about the events we have planned for the year and meet others interested in carceral studies on campus. We will be watching the Oscar-nominated documentary Knife Skills and discussing it. Refreshments will be provided.

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Film Screening Wed, 22 Aug 2018 15:52:42 -0400 2018-09-25T15:00:00-04:00 2018-09-25T17:00:00-04:00 Angell Hall Carceral Studies Film Screening Knife Skills
Fall Film Series: Contemporary Cinema from the Islamic World (September 25, 2018 7:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/53847 53847-13470105@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, September 25, 2018 7:00pm
Location: East Quadrangle
Organized By: Residential College

This short but powerful documentary gives a glimpse into the training and day-to-day activities of the White Helmets (aka Syria Civil Defence), a group of volunteer rescue workers in Syria. Formed in 2014, this group has been active during the Syrian Civil War helping to rescue civilians from the rubble left in the aftermath of bombings. (40 minutes)

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Film Screening Fri, 17 Aug 2018 12:20:51 -0400 2018-09-25T19:00:00-04:00 2018-09-25T22:00:00-04:00 East Quadrangle Residential College Film Screening Fall Film Series
International Movie Night Series (September 27, 2018 7:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/55895 55895-13802790@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, September 27, 2018 7:00pm
Location: Industrial and Operations Engineering Building
Organized By: Engineering Office of Student Affairs

Event: International Movie Night Series

Let’s watch a movie together! A movie that tells a story that you have never heard…We will watch four international movies from four different countries during the Fall term. The first movie is “3 Idiots”. Two friends embark on a quest for a lost buddy. On this journey, they encounter a long forgotten bet, a wedding they must crash, and a funeral that goes, ridiculously out of control. As they make their way through the perilous landscape, another journey begins: their inner journey through memory lane and the story of their friend -- the impressible free-thinker Rancho, who is in unique way, touched and changed their lives. It's a story of their hostel days that swings between Rancho's romance with the spirited Pia, and his clash with an oppressive mentor, Viru Sahastrabudhhe. And then one day, suddenly, Rancho vanished. Who was he? Where did he come from? Why did he leave? The friend who influenced and inspired them to think creatively and independently, even as the conformist world called them "three idiots." Where is the original idiot now? Finally, in misty mountains of unparalleled beauty, the friends find the key to the secret. -Rotten Tomatoes

*This event is funded by the College of Engineering Diversity, Equity & Inclusion Committee and the Office of Student Affairs. For more information, contact Ece Sanci, ecesanci@umich.edu.

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Film Screening Mon, 24 Sep 2018 11:27:46 -0400 2018-09-27T19:00:00-04:00 2018-09-27T21:00:00-04:00 Industrial and Operations Engineering Building Engineering Office of Student Affairs Film Screening Industrial and Operations Engineering Building
Women in Political Science Speaker Series (September 28, 2018 11:30am) https://events.umich.edu/event/54099 54099-13528368@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, September 28, 2018 11:30am
Location: Haven Hall
Organized By: Department of Political Science

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Film Screening Thu, 23 Aug 2018 08:52:15 -0400 2018-09-28T11:30:00-04:00 2018-09-28T13:30:00-04:00 Haven Hall Department of Political Science Film Screening Haven Hall
Film Screening and Discussion of Soufra (October 1, 2018 4:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/52498 52498-12840324@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Monday, October 1, 2018 4:00pm
Location: Weiser Hall
Organized By: Program in International and Comparative Studies

Soufra follows the unlikely and wildly inspirational story of intrepid social entrepreneur, Mariam Shaar – a generational refugee who has spent her entire life in the Burj El Barajneh refugee camp just south of Beirut, Lebanon. The film follows Mariam as she sets out against all odds to change her fate by launching a successful catering company, “Soufra,” and then expand it into a food truck business with a diverse team of fellow refugee woman who now share this camp as their home. Together, they heal the wounds of war through the unifying power of food while taking their future into their own hands through an unrelenting belief in Mariam, and in each other. In the process, Mariam is breaking barriers, pulling together Syrian, Iraqi, Palestinian and Lebanese women to work side by side and form beautiful friendships while running this thriving business.

Soufra will shine a new and revealing light on people inside of the largest refugee crisis in human history, but ultimately this film is about hope, grit, passion and the common bonds created by bringing people together around food as a bridge to overcome all barriers. Though Mariam is officially considered “stateless” she is a beacon of hope and home for thousands upon thousands of women in the most unlikely of places. Mariam and her team will be just that for thousands more once her story is told through Soufra.

The screening of the film will be followed by a discussion and Q&A featuring Soufra director and producer, Thomas Morgan and Quinn Konarska, U-M International Studies alumna and production coordinator, Rebelhouse Group, who helped produce the film.

A reception with light appetizers and refreshments will follow the film discussion. The cookbook, Soufra: Recipes from a Refugee Food Truck, will also be available for purchase for $20.00 via cash or check.

This event is co-sponsored by: Program in International and Comparative Studies, Center for Entrepreneurship, Digital Islamic Studies Curriculum, Donia Human Rights Center, Global Islamic Studies Center, Department of Film, Television, and Media, Department of Middle East Studies, and Center for Middle East and North African Studies

Thomas Morgan
Director and Producer, Soufra
Thomas attended college at Central Michigan University where he graduated with a Bachelors of Science in Business Administration in 1990. Morgan worked as real estate developer and investment banker for most of his career. In 2009, after a “series of unlikely events” Morgan left the corporate world behind to become a documentary filmmaker and activist.

His films have been labeled “Filmanthropy” as he has leveraged them to create movements and a call to action. In Storied Streets, Morgan captures the painful reality of homelessness in America and gracefully unearths pain and personal triumphs of those living unhoused in our country. Through the film he has protested, petitioned and pushed for laws making the violence against the homeless a hate crime, higher wages and abolishment of laws criminalizing homelessness.

With the 2013 documentary short film, Waiting for Mamu, he speaks to the power of one, through the story of Pushpa Basnet, who at age 21 began helping free children from the prison floors in Nepal. The award winning film has raised the money to build a permanent home, The Butterfly Home, in Kathmandu and assisted in supporting their education. He has added Executive Producer to his resume through his support of Silenced, a film about US government whistleblowers, and India’s Daughter, an Oscar contending film about the rape and murder of a 23 year old medical student in India.

Morgan has been a keynote speaker many times on Capitol Hill and twice before the U.S. Congress. He also spoke for the PPL forum at the 2012 Democratic National Convention and at 2013 at the United Nations. His TED Talk entitled “Put On Your Underoos It’s Time To Save The World” has been seen via internet by hundreds of thousands. He has done one of the most unusual TEDx Talks from Nepal soon after the earthquake while providing relief to Pushpa Basnet and her children and was the commencement speaker at his alma mater given what has been called “One the best commencement speeches of 2015.”

Quinn Konarska, Rebelhouse Studios, Los Angeles, CA
BA International Studies - Global Environment and Heath; minors, Global Media Studies, and French and Francophone Studies '13

Quinn graduated from the University of Michigan in 2013 with a BA in International Studies focused on Global Environment and Health, and minors in Screen Arts and Cultures, and French and Francophone studies. While at Michigan, she was an active member of FOKUS (Fighting Obstacles Knowing Ultimate Success) and SHEI Magazine, and studied abroad in Aix-en-Provence, France. In 2011, she worked for Participant Media as a documentary development intern, helping to fund and produce films for social change. Upon graduation, she accepted an offer with Google in San Francisco. She worked in People Operations, developing events and programs to engage with top tech talent while working to build a more diverse hiring pipeline. In August 2017, Quinn left Google, packed up her Volvo wagon, and headed south to pursue impact media in Los Angeles.

Quinn currently works as a production and outreach coordinator for Rebelhouse Group, a creative agency that produces films in tandem with outreach campaigns to enact social change. Their most recent documentary, Soufra, tells the story of a group of refugee women in Lebanon who set out to launch a successful catering company and expand it into a food truck business. Soufra was an official selection of the Berlin International Film Festival, Cannes Positive Cinema Week, DOC NYC, El Gouna, and numerous other film festivals. Quinn plans to continue pursuing writing and filmmaking as tools to make the world a better place.

If you are a person with a disability who requires an accommodation to attend this event, please reach out to us at least 2 weeks in advance of this event. Please be aware that advance notice is necessary as some accommodations may require more time for the university to arrange. Please contact: is-michigan@umich.edu.

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Film Screening Thu, 16 Aug 2018 15:03:33 -0400 2018-10-01T16:00:00-04:00 2018-10-01T18:15:00-04:00 Weiser Hall Program in International and Comparative Studies Film Screening photo
Deaf Out Loud Showing (October 1, 2018 6:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/56184 56184-13843960@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Monday, October 1, 2018 6:00pm
Location: 3330 Mason Hall
Organized By: Maize Pages Student Organizations

ASL Club will be showing Episode one of the tv show Deaf Out Loud this week! All are welcome !contact a.s.l.club@umich.edu with any questions

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Film Screening Mon, 01 Oct 2018 18:00:15 -0400 2018-10-01T18:00:00-04:00 2018-10-01T19:00:00-04:00 3330 Mason Hall Maize Pages Student Organizations Film Screening
Film Screening: To Err is Human (October 3, 2018 5:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/56262 56262-13869402@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, October 3, 2018 5:00pm
Location: Public Health II
Organized By: Health Policy Student Association

What: To Err is Human Film Screening!
When: Wednesday, October 3 from 5-8pm
Location: SPH 2, Room M1020 (1st floor auditorium)
Details: Watch the screening and engage in a panel discussion with the director of the film and other health policy experts in the field! Pizza will be provided!
RSVP: https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSdh7k3hkCKFtcwVdeFhQNbsuF_h85QIybt8fOUHVXIZCe1s-w/viewform

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Film Screening Mon, 01 Oct 2018 14:27:40 -0400 2018-10-03T17:00:00-04:00 2018-10-03T20:00:00-04:00 Public Health II Health Policy Student Association Film Screening Public Health II
Dragonfly Eyes (2017) (October 7, 2018 6:15pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/54212 54212-13539468@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Sunday, October 7, 2018 6:15pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Confucius Institute at the University of Michigan

Constructed entirely from real surveillance video, Dragonfly Eyes is a unique hybrid of fiction and documentary. Director Xu Bing, one of the most famous fine artists in China, collected his imagery from online sites that stream surveillance cameras. He stitched them together with a fictional narrative about an ill-fated romance embedded in a chaotic and spectacular modern China. Xu’s ambitious film explores the anxious borderlands between the real and the fictive, between direct experience and mediated life.

*This is a free screening but registration is required. Please register here: https://goo.gl/39gySv
*Please stay for the Q&A with Director Xu Bing after the screening.
*Information about pre-screening lecture:

"Xu Bing: The Origins of Creativity"
Penny Stamps Distinguished Speaker Series
https://stamps.umich.edu/images/uploads/lectures/bing_xu.jpg
Special Event: Sunday, October 7, 4pm / Helmut Stern Auditorium, UMMA, 525 S State St, Ann Arbor 48109

Presented in partnership with the U-M Lieberthal-Rogel Center for Chinese Studies, U-M Confucius Institute, U-M Department of Film, Television, and Media Studies, and University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA).

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Film Screening Wed, 29 Aug 2018 15:20:43 -0400 2018-10-07T18:15:00-04:00 2018-10-07T20:00:00-04:00 Off Campus Location Confucius Institute at the University of Michigan Film Screening dragonfly eyes
"Unrest" (documentary film) (October 8, 2018 11:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/55681 55681-13768279@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Monday, October 8, 2018 11:00am
Location: Hatcher Graduate Library
Organized By: University Human Resources

Jennifer Brea's Sundance award-winning documentary, Unrest, is a personal journey from patient to advocate to storyteller. Jennifer is 28, working on her PhD at Harvard, and months away from marrying the love of her life when a mysterious fever leaves her bedridden. When doctors tell her it's "all in her head," she picks up her camera as an act of defiance and brings us into a hidden world of millions that medicine abandoned.

The Council for Disability Concerns produces an annual series of events designed to raise awareness of disability topics on campus and in our community. The events are presented by the University of Michigan Council for Disability Concerns in collaboration with University Human Resources, Michigan Medicine, and University Health Service. All events are free and everyone is welcome. If accommodations are needed, contact disability@umich.edu at least one week in advance.

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Film Screening Fri, 21 Sep 2018 12:58:00 -0400 2018-10-08T11:00:00-04:00 2018-10-08T13:00:00-04:00 Hatcher Graduate Library University Human Resources Film Screening Investing in Ability
The Eagle and The Condor - From Standing Rock With Love (October 8, 2018 7:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/55903 55903-13805066@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Monday, October 8, 2018 7:00pm
Location: Palmer Commons
Organized By: Multi Ethnic Student Affairs - MESA

This film will premiere on Indigenous People’s Day - Monday October 8th - on Free Speech TV and in communities across Turtle Island, the U.S., Canada and Europe. At U-M, the free screening will take place in the Forum Hall (Palmer Commons).

Film Description:
From 2016 – 2017 Standing Rock water protection camps located at the heart of Turtle Island became the largest assembly of Indigenous peoples in recent history. Gathered nations confronted big energy’s extreme extraction through the strength of their ceremonies, histories, and connections. Despite being met with violence, many who brought their best intentions to this historic fight continue to expand their love and sovereignty - while they shift our world away from the trauma and isolation of modern days.

The film is based around prophecy of the Eagle and Condor that originates with nations from the South and features ceremony held at the Dakota Access Pipeline (DAPL) site on Indigenous People’s Day, October 10th, 2016. The ancient prophecy predicted the epic Standing Rock water protection actions – and continues to challenge all to identify and unite our gifts and power.

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Film Screening Wed, 03 Oct 2018 09:55:38 -0400 2018-10-08T19:00:00-04:00 2018-10-08T21:30:00-04:00 Palmer Commons Multi Ethnic Student Affairs - MESA Film Screening a river in a grassy plain
Fall Film Series: Contemporary Cinema from the Islamic World (October 9, 2018 7:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/53844 53844-13470103@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, October 9, 2018 7:00pm
Location: East Quadrangle
Organized By: Residential College

Based on the autobiographical graphic novel of the same name, Persepolis tells the story of Marjane Satrapi’s childhood in Iran at the time of the Revolution. The animated film depicts the perspective of a young daughter of leftist parents growing up pre- and post-Revolution, as well as life in the diaspora when Satrapi leaves to study abroad. (96 minutes)

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Film Screening Fri, 17 Aug 2018 12:20:20 -0400 2018-10-09T19:00:00-04:00 2018-10-09T22:00:00-04:00 East Quadrangle Residential College Film Screening Fall Film Series
Film Screening & Public Conversation: Retracing Black Text & Pedagogy (October 10, 2018 2:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/54716 54716-13638573@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, October 10, 2018 2:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Penny W Stamps School of Art & Design

Stamps Gallery invites you to join us for a screening of Fluid Frontiers, 2017, by Ephraim Asili,a film that explores the relationship between concepts of resistance and liberation, exemplified by the Underground Railroad, Broadside Press, and artworks of local Detroit Artists.

The film is followed by a public conversation titledRetracing Black Text & Pedagogy: A Meditation on Black radical traditions in Detroit, organized by ARTS.BLACK and Kameelah Janan Rasheed in correspondence with Rasheed’s installation on view at Stamps Gallery, Ecosystems (activation ii). This is a public program for the exhibition Have We Met? Dialogues on Memory and Desire on view at Stamps Gallery from September 21 - November 18, 2018.

Participants: Bill Harris (artist & educator), Tawana “Honeycomb” Petty (writer & activist) and Taylor Renee Aldridge (independent curator & co-founder ARTS.BLACK).

Image: Still from the film Fluid Frontiers, 2017 by Ephraim Asili.

Please RSVP to reserve your place for this free event: https://www.eventbrite.com/e/film-screening-public-conversation-have-we-met-dialogues-on-memory-and-desire-tickets-49848392885

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Film Screening Tue, 18 Sep 2018 18:15:38 -0400 2018-10-10T14:00:00-04:00 2018-10-10T17:00:00-04:00 Off Campus Location Penny W Stamps School of Art & Design Film Screening https://stamps.umich.edu/images/uploads/calendar/Oct10_Screening_and_Conversation_Stamps_Gallery_.jpg
The Young Karl Marx (October 10, 2018 7:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/55615 55615-13765952@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, October 10, 2018 7:00pm
Location: Angell Hall
Organized By: Eisenberg Institute for Historical Studies

The Young Karl Marx is the latest creation of Raoul Peck, director of the acclaimed feature film Lumumba (2000), on the first prime minister of Congo after independence, and the prize-winning documentary I Am Not Your Negro (2016), on the American writer
Raoul Peck James Baldwin.

In this new film, the filmmaker has taken on the story of two young activist-friends, Karl Marx and Friedrich Engels, co-authors of The Communist Manifesto (1848). This is anything but a conventional biopic—rather, it is a historical tale about thought on the move that serves as a model for the political struggles of today.

Screening followed by discussion with Geoff Eley (History), Brian Porter-Szücs (History), and Helmut Puff (History, Germanic Languages and Literatures; panel chair).

The Young Karl Marx (2017). 118 minutes. English, French, German (with subtitles).

This event is made possible by a generous contribution from Kenneth and Frances Aftel Eisenberg. Additional support from Askwith Media Library.

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Film Screening Mon, 08 Oct 2018 08:31:08 -0400 2018-10-10T19:00:00-04:00 2018-10-10T22:00:00-04:00 Angell Hall Eisenberg Institute for Historical Studies Film Screening Young Karl Marx Poster
Race to Nowhere (October 11, 2018 6:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/55904 55904-13805067@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, October 11, 2018 6:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Michigan Community Scholars Program

"Race to Nowhere" is a film that calls us to challenge current thinking about how we prepare our children for success. Featuring the heartbreaking stories of students across the country who have been pushed to the brink by over-scheduling, over-testing and the relentless pressure to achieve, “Race to Nowhere” points to a silent epidemic in our schools. Through the testimony of educators, parents and education experts, it reveals an education system in which cheating has become commonplace; students have become disengaged; stress-related illness, depression and burnout are rampant; and young people arrive at college and the workplace unprepared and uninspired. "

Following the film, a panel will speak and lead discussion and Q&A, including:
John Boshoven, Counselor Emeritas and Co-Chair of AAPS Counseling Department

Patricia Manley, Trustee, Board of Education, Ann Arbor Public Schools

Todd Sevig, Director, Counseling and Psychological Services, University of Michigan

This event is free and co-sponsored by U-M Michigan Community Scholars Program and the Ann Arbor District Library. Contact Michigan Community Scholars Program with questions at mcsprogram@umich.edu

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Film Screening Mon, 24 Sep 2018 13:40:12 -0400 2018-10-11T18:00:00-04:00 2018-10-11T20:00:00-04:00 Off Campus Location Michigan Community Scholars Program Film Screening Race to Nowhere Film Screening
Me, The "Other" Screening and Conversation (October 12, 2018 12:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/55899 55899-13802793@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, October 12, 2018 12:00pm
Location: Angell Hall
Organized By: VOICES OF THE STAFF- ADVANCING DIVERSITY, EQUITY AND INCLUSION TEAM

Friday, October 12, 2018
12:00 pm - 2:00 pm
Angell Hall - Auditorium B

Friday, October 12, 2018
3:00 pm - 5:00 pm
Towsley Center-Dow Auditorium

VOICES OF THE STAFF - Advancing Diversity, Equity and Inclusion Team Presents:
Private screening of Me, The "Other" , a documentary film about a diverse group of students living in Washtenaw County in Southeast Michigan. "We set out to tell stories of prejudice, equality and diversity and discovered that 'otherness' is never one thing"
Register here : https://tinyurl.com/METHEOTHER

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Film Screening Thu, 27 Sep 2018 15:05:04 -0400 2018-10-12T12:00:00-04:00 2018-10-12T14:00:00-04:00 Angell Hall VOICES OF THE STAFF- ADVANCING DIVERSITY, EQUITY AND INCLUSION TEAM Film Screening Me, "The Other"
Me, The "Other" Screening and Conversation (October 12, 2018 3:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/55899 55899-13805061@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, October 12, 2018 3:00pm
Location: Towsley Center for Cont. Med Ed
Organized By: VOICES OF THE STAFF- ADVANCING DIVERSITY, EQUITY AND INCLUSION TEAM

Friday, October 12, 2018
12:00 pm - 2:00 pm
Angell Hall - Auditorium B

Friday, October 12, 2018
3:00 pm - 5:00 pm
Towsley Center-Dow Auditorium

VOICES OF THE STAFF - Advancing Diversity, Equity and Inclusion Team Presents:
Private screening of Me, The "Other" , a documentary film about a diverse group of students living in Washtenaw County in Southeast Michigan. "We set out to tell stories of prejudice, equality and diversity and discovered that 'otherness' is never one thing"
Register here : https://tinyurl.com/METHEOTHER

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Film Screening Thu, 27 Sep 2018 15:05:04 -0400 2018-10-12T15:00:00-04:00 2018-10-12T17:00:00-04:00 Towsley Center for Cont. Med Ed VOICES OF THE STAFF- ADVANCING DIVERSITY, EQUITY AND INCLUSION TEAM Film Screening Me, "The Other"
An Evening with Legendary Animator Floyd Norman (October 12, 2018 4:30pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/53741 53741-13455134@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, October 12, 2018 4:30pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Penny W Stamps School of Art & Design

Floyd Norman was the first African-American animator at Disney, hired first to work on the 1959 film Sleeping Beauty. Over the span of his sixty-year career, Norman had a hand in blockbuster titles such as The Jungle Book, Monsters Inc, and Mulan. At 80 years old, Norman continues to animate, working as a storyboard artist on Cartoon Network’s Robot Chicken. Norman is the 2002 recipient of a Winsor McCay Award for “recognition of lifetime or career contributions to the art of animation” and was named a Disney Legend in 2007.

4:30 pm: Screening of Floyd Norman: An Animated Life (Documentary, 94 min.)
6:00 pm: Q&A with Floyd Norman

Presented by the Penny Stamps School of Art & Design and sponsored by UMMA, An Evening with Legendary Animator Floyd Norman is a U-M Diversity Week Event.

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Film Screening Wed, 15 Aug 2018 11:27:57 -0400 2018-10-12T16:30:00-04:00 2018-10-12T19:30:00-04:00 Off Campus Location Penny W Stamps School of Art & Design Film Screening https://stamps.umich.edu/images/uploads/calendar/FloydNormanAnAnimatedLife_English_WW_2560x1440_V6_copy.jpg
"Deej" (documentary film) (October 16, 2018 7:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/55825 55825-13779924@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, October 16, 2018 7:00pm
Location: Hatcher Graduate Library
Organized By: University Human Resources

Deej is DJ Savarese, a non-talking autistic man who was abandoned by his birth parents and remained uneducated until his adoptive parents helped him pursue an education. This film deals with Deej's transition to college life and the difficulties and growth that Deej pursues at Oberlin. He is a wordsmith who uses a machine to talk and he and his community know something you don't.

The Council for Disability Concerns produces an annual series of events designed to raise awareness of disability topics on campus and in our community. The events are presented by the University of Michigan Council for Disability Concerns in collaboration with University Human Resources, Michigan Medicine, and University Health Service. All events are free and everyone is welcome. If accommodations are needed, contact disability@umich.edu at least one week in advance.

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Film Screening Fri, 21 Sep 2018 12:55:53 -0400 2018-10-16T19:00:00-04:00 2018-10-16T20:30:00-04:00 Hatcher Graduate Library University Human Resources Film Screening Investing in Ability
Screening of Toni Erdmann (October 17, 2018 6:30pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/56352 56352-13887616@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, October 17, 2018 6:30pm
Location: North Quad
Organized By: Germanic Languages & Literatures

A retired music teacher (Peter Simonischek) with a penchant for playing practical jokes and wearing fake teeth tries to reconnect with his hardworking daughter (Sandra Hüller) in this festival favorite from Berlin School director Maren Ade. Featuring no end of awkward father-daughter encounters and a memorable rendition of Whitney Houston’s “Greatest Love of All,” Toni Erdmann is a bittersweet dramedy that has redefined the landscape of contemporary German cinema. Screened in German with English subtitles.

This event is part of the monthly German Film Series and is sponsored by the University of Michigan Department of Germanic Languages and Literatures and the Max Kade House. See https://lsa.umich.edu/german for additional dates and films.

Each month, a German faculty, lecturer, or graduate student introduces and screens a different German-language film. Dinner will be provided at 6:30 pm, followed by the film at 7 pm.

Free and open to the public.

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Film Screening Mon, 15 Oct 2018 14:00:30 -0400 2018-10-17T18:30:00-04:00 2018-10-17T21:00:00-04:00 North Quad Germanic Languages & Literatures Film Screening Toni Erdmann
LACS Film Screening and Q&A. O Processo (The Trial) (October 18, 2018 4:30pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/56704 56704-13967644@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, October 18, 2018 4:30pm
Location: Weiser Hall
Organized By: Center for Latin American and Caribbean Studies

O PROCESSO (THE TRIAL) is a behind-the-scenes look at the impeachment trial of Brazil’s first female President. As Ramos’ camera quietly follows the proceedings, the film witnesses a spectacle of betrayal and corruption and the collapse of the nation’s democratic institutions.

Winner of the Grand Jury Prize for Best Feature film at Vision du Reel, Documenta Madrid, Indie Lisboa, and Buenos Aires Documentary Film Festival.

Maria Augusta Ramos has won major awards for her seven documentary films, including, in 2013, the Marek Nowicki Prize from the Helsinki Foundation for Human Rights for her body of work.

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Film Screening Fri, 12 Oct 2018 10:20:37 -0400 2018-10-18T16:30:00-04:00 2018-10-18T19:30:00-04:00 Weiser Hall Center for Latin American and Caribbean Studies Film Screening film-image
International Movie Night Series (October 18, 2018 7:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/56612 56612-13958273@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, October 18, 2018 7:00pm
Location: Industrial and Operations Engineering Building
Organized By: Engineering Office of Student Affairs

Let’s watch a movie together! A movie that tells a story that you have never heard…
We will watch four international movies from four different countries during the Fall term. The second movie is “A Taxi Driver”.

In this powerful true story set in 1980, a down-on-his-luck taxi driver from Seoul is hired by a foreign journalist who wants to go to the town of Gwangju for the day. They arrive to find a city under siege by the military government, with the citizens, led by a determined group of college students, rising up to demand freedom. What began as an easy fare becomes a life-or-death struggle in the midst of the Gwangju Uprising, a critical event in modern South Korea. -Rotten Tomatoes

*This event is funded by Diversity, Equity & Inclusion and Office of Student Affairs.

**Dinner will be provided.

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Film Screening Thu, 11 Oct 2018 08:09:52 -0400 2018-10-18T19:00:00-04:00 2018-10-18T21:00:00-04:00 Industrial and Operations Engineering Building Engineering Office of Student Affairs Film Screening Industrial and Operations Engineering Building
Mrs. Fang 方绣英 (2017) (October 21, 2018 4:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/56759 56759-13997127@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Sunday, October 21, 2018 4:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Confucius Institute at the University of Michigan

Curated by Fang Zhang (2016-2017 Hughes Scholar at the Lieberthal-Rogel Center for Chinese Studies), CIUM’s annual film series “Electric Shadow” for the fall 2018 presents the most celebrated Chinese artists’ thought-provoking films. All CIUM events are free and open to the public.

Synopsis:
The camera apathetically zooms in Mrs. Fang’s ghostly face, her mouth held open in a rigid grimace. Having suffered from Alzheimer's for eight years, Fang Xiuying is now bedridden and surrounded by her relatives and neighbors, as they accompany her through her last days. “Mrs. Fang” depicts a shockingly raw and merciless portrait of Mrs. Fang’s final days. Unarguably the best work of Director Wang Bing, “Mrs. Fang” was honored with Golden Leopard at the 2017 Locarno Festival.

About Director Wang Bing:
A graduate of Beijing Film Academy, Wang Bing is a well​-​known ​cinematographer in China, famous for his talent of chronicling the everyday lives of peasants, laborers, and drifters. ​Most of his protagonists are marginalized, abandoned, and desperate​ people​, through which Wang tries to document the raw, brutal, but earnest humanism through his camera lens. His most well-known films are The Ditch (2010), Three Sisters (2012), and West of the Tracks (2002).

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Film Screening Mon, 15 Oct 2018 12:11:41 -0400 2018-10-21T16:00:00-04:00 2018-10-21T17:25:00-04:00 Off Campus Location Confucius Institute at the University of Michigan Film Screening Mrs. Fang
Animation & Experimental Film Screening (October 22, 2018 12:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/56840 56840-14008249@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Monday, October 22, 2018 12:00pm
Location: Art and Architecture Building
Organized By: University of Michigan Faculty

Screening of short animated and experimental films from the 2018 Black Maria Film Festival, an international juried touring festival. Festival director, Jane Steuerwald will be in attendance. This screening will showcase a collection of stellar works touring this season including “New York City Sketchbook,” by Willy Hartland, Brooklyn, NY; “Insecta,” by Ramey Newell, Vancouver, BC, Canada; and #TAKEMEANYWHERE, by Shia LaBeouf, Nastja Rönkkö and Luke Turner. On May 23rd, 2016, they embarked on a 31-day project to hitchhike through the use of the internet. They tweeted their GPS coordinates, along with the #TAKEMEANYWHERE hashtag, and waited for a ride. Whoever appeared had the opportunity to take them wherever they chose. Their path was entirely in the hands of the public.

Black Maria is an international juried film competition that celebrates short films (animation, experimental, narrative, and documentary). As a touring festival, they have advanced the work of diverse filmmakers from across the US and around the world since 1981. The festival's touring collection addresses topics such as the environment, public health, climate change, substance abuse, gun violence, sustainability, immigration, people with disabilities, and LGBTQ issues.
The Festival's home is New Jersey City University in Jersey City, NJ and is named after Thomas Edison's original West Orange film studio dubbed the "Black Maria" because of its resemblance to the black-box police paddy wagons of the same name.

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Film Screening Tue, 16 Oct 2018 19:35:28 -0400 2018-10-22T12:00:00-04:00 2018-10-22T14:00:00-04:00 Art and Architecture Building University of Michigan Faculty Film Screening Image from the film, "Take Me Anywhere"
Animation & Experimental Film Screening: Films from the 2018 Black Maria Film Festival (October 22, 2018 12:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/56902 56902-14023785@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Monday, October 22, 2018 12:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Penny W Stamps School of Art & Design

Monday Oct 22, 2018, 12 -2 pm
Art & Architecture Auditorium
Free and open to all

Films from the 2018 Black Maria Film Festival, which showcases the works of highly accomplished independent film and video makers, will be presented by the festival director, Jane Steuerwald.

Featured selections in the 12 pm Program include “New York City Sketchbook,” by Willy Hartland, Brooklyn, NY; “Insecta,” by Ramey Newell, Vancouver, BC, Canada; and #TAKEMEANYWHERE, by Shia LaBeouf, Nastja Rönkkö and Luke Turner. On May 23rd, 2016, they embarked on a 31-day project to hitchhike through the use of the internet. They tweeted their GPS coordinates, along with the #TAKEMEANYWHERE hashtag, and waited for a ride. Whoever appeared had the opportunity to take them wherever they chose. Their path was entirely in the hands of the public.

Black Maria is an international juried film competition that celebrates short films (animation, experimental, narrative, and documentary).  As a touring festival, they have advanced the work of diverse filmmakers from across the US and around the world since 1981.  The festival’s touring collection addresses topics such as the environment, public health, climate change, substance abuse, gun violence, sustainability, immigration, people with disabilities, and LGBTQ issues.
The Festival’s home is New Jersey City University in Jersey City, NJ and is named after Thomas Edison’s original West Orange film studio dubbed the “Black Maria” because of its resemblance to the black-box police paddy wagons of the same name.

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Film Screening Thu, 18 Oct 2018 12:15:42 -0400 2018-10-22T12:00:00-04:00 2018-10-22T14:00:00-04:00 Off Campus Location Penny W Stamps School of Art & Design Film Screening https://stamps.umich.edu/images/uploads/calendar/blackmaria_logo.jpg
Fall Film Series: Contemporary Cinema from the Islamic World (October 23, 2018 7:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/53848 53848-13470106@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, October 23, 2018 7:00pm
Location: East Quadrangle
Organized By: Residential College

Wadjda tells the story of a young Saudi girl (the titular Wadjda), who dreams of owning a bike. Seeing bike-riding as unfit for a young girl, her family is unwilling to purchase her the bike, so Wadjda enters a Quran reciting competition in hopes of winning the money to buy the bike for herself. This film was the first feature-length film shot entirely in Saudi Arabia as well as the first made by a female Saudi director (Haifaa al-Masour). (98 minutes)

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Film Screening Fri, 17 Aug 2018 12:21:10 -0400 2018-10-23T19:00:00-04:00 2018-10-23T22:00:00-04:00 East Quadrangle Residential College Film Screening Fall Film Series
CES Film. "Human Flow" (October 24, 2018 5:30pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/54155 54155-13530699@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, October 24, 2018 5:30pm
Location: Weiser Hall
Organized By: Center for European Studies

Directed by Ai Weiwei (140 min., 2017).

Over 65 million people around the world have been forced from their homes to escape famine, climate change and war in the greatest human displacement since World War II. "Human Flow," an epic film journey led by the internationally renowned artist Ai Weiwei, gives a powerful visual expression to this massive human migration. The documentary elucidates both the staggering scale of the refugee crisis and its profoundly personal human impact.

Captured over the course of an eventful year in 23 countries, the film follows a chain of urgent human stories that stretches across the globe in countries including Afghanistan, Bangladesh, France, Greece, Germany, Iraq, Israel, Italy, Kenya, Mexico, and Turkey. "Human Flow" is a witness to its subjects and their desperate search for safety, shelter and justice: from teeming refugee camps to perilous ocean crossings to barbed-wire borders; from dislocation and disillusionment to courage, endurance and adaptation; from the haunting lure of lives left behind to the unknown potential of the future. "Human Flow" comes at a crucial time when tolerance, compassion, and trust are needed more than ever. This visceral work of cinema is a testament to the unassailable human spirit and poses one of the questions that will define this century: Will our global society emerge from fear, isolation, and self-interest and choose a path of openness, freedom, and respect for humanity?

If you are a person with a disability who requires an accommodation to attend this event, please reach out to cesmichigan@umich.edu at least 2 weeks in advance of this event. Please be aware that advance notice is necessary as some accommodations may require more time for the university to arrange.

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Film Screening Thu, 18 Oct 2018 16:23:03 -0400 2018-10-24T17:30:00-04:00 2018-10-24T20:00:00-04:00 Weiser Hall Center for European Studies Film Screening Human Flow
Film: Intersexion (October 24, 2018 5:30pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/55914 55914-13805082@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, October 24, 2018 5:30pm
Location: Hatcher Graduate Library
Organized By: University Library

Please join the Spectrum Center for a viewing of the film Intersexion, which details the lives and experiences of intersex individuals and how they navigate a male/female world.

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Film Screening Mon, 24 Sep 2018 15:08:31 -0400 2018-10-24T17:30:00-04:00 2018-10-24T18:30:00-04:00 Hatcher Graduate Library University Library Film Screening Intersexion film poster
Film: Intersexion (October 24, 2018 5:30pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/55896 55896-13802791@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, October 24, 2018 5:30pm
Location: Hatcher Graduate Library
Organized By: University Library

Please join the Spectrum Center for a viewing of the film Intersexion, which details the lives and experiences of intersex individuals and how they navigate a male/female world.

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Film Screening Mon, 24 Sep 2018 11:27:31 -0400 2018-10-24T17:30:00-04:00 2018-10-24T18:30:00-04:00 Hatcher Graduate Library University Library Film Screening DVD cover from intersexion
Coco with Hot Cocoa: Movie Night with Students Helping Honduras (October 24, 2018 8:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/56414 56414-13896812@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, October 24, 2018 8:00pm
Location: East Quadrangle
Organized By: Students Helping Honduras

Take a study break and join Students Helping Honduras while we watch Coco on Wednesday, Oct. 24 at 8pm in EQ B834! SHH hosts various fundraising and outreach events in order to promote education and youth empowerment among rural Honduran communities; every dollar we raise goes directly towards the construction of elementary schools in Honduras. There will be hot cocoa and donuts for sale! Enjoy a fun movie while supporting a great cause! #paralosniños

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Film Screening Fri, 12 Oct 2018 15:31:16 -0400 2018-10-24T20:00:00-04:00 2018-10-24T22:00:00-04:00 East Quadrangle Students Helping Honduras Film Screening Flyer
Filmabend (October 25, 2018 7:30pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/56040 56040-13821125@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, October 25, 2018 7:30pm
Location: North Quad
Organized By: Germanic Languages & Literatures

German Club will be hosting a Filmabend in the Video Viewing Room of the LRC. The film (TBD) will be in German with English subtitles. If you have any questions, please contact Parker (pbhill@umich.edu) or Bridget (bridgloc@umich.edu).

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Film Screening Wed, 26 Sep 2018 11:14:09 -0400 2018-10-25T19:30:00-04:00 2018-10-25T21:00:00-04:00 North Quad Germanic Languages & Literatures Film Screening North Quad
Listening to Third Grandmother’s Stories (2011) & Dance with Third Grandmother (2015) (October 28, 2018 4:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/56762 56762-13997130@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Sunday, October 28, 2018 4:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Confucius Institute at the University of Michigan

Synopsis

Listening to Third Grandmother’s Stories (2011) and Dance with Third Grandmother (2015) are documentary-style interview films that recorded the stories of Wen Hui’s third grandmother. When Wen Hui visited her family’s hometown, a small village in Yunnan, on a project, she unexpectedly met her third grandmother. Spending time with her, Wen Hui listened to her stories of tragedy and hardships that she lived through the Great Famine and Cultural Revolution in China.

About Director Wen Hui

A graduate of Beijing Dancing Academy, Wen Hui is a renowned choreographer and dancer in China. She and Wu Wenguang, an independent film maker, co-founded China’s first independent dance theatre company “Life and Dance Studio” in Beijing in 1994. Her creativity, her theatre style, and Chinese daily life movements are weaved into many of her documentary films, attempting to depict conflicts and connections between memory and history.

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Film Screening Mon, 15 Oct 2018 12:44:36 -0400 2018-10-28T16:00:00-04:00 2018-10-28T17:30:00-04:00 Off Campus Location Confucius Institute at the University of Michigan Film Screening Wen Hui Image
Truth Tour Stop: Ann Arbor (October 30, 2018 6:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/56677 56677-13960688@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, October 30, 2018 6:00pm
Location: Weill Hall (Ford School)
Organized By: Center for Local, State, and Urban Policy (CLOSUP)

Please join us for a special screening of Michigan Divided, a 48 minute documentary exploring political divisions in the state. A 30 minute interactive audience conversation will follow. The event is part of the Michigan Truth Tour provided by Bridge Magazine.

The screening and discussion is free and open to the public, please RSVP at bit.ly/TruthTourFordSchool.

Michigan Divided is a 48 minute exploration of political division in Michigan. Filmed throughout 2017, the film follows six Michigan families across political, socioeconomic and racial lines. What can the state’s residents agree on? And how can we work together for a better future? After the film there will be a guided discussion on the movie’s themes and what steps we can take to can resolve the state’s political division.

This event is a part of Bridge Magazine’s Michigan Truth Tour, a statewide roadshow attempting to ground the upcoming state election in fact and discussion of the state's most important issues. Throughout 2018, their Michigan Truth Squad is visiting more than 100 communities across the state, ensuring all residents have equal access to reliable information they need to prepare to vote.

To learn more about the publication, visit www.bridgemi.com.

Bridge Magazine is published by the Center for Michigan, a nonpartisan “think-and-do” tank striving to be the state’s “citizenship company.” The Center has spent the last decade traveling around Michigan, listening to what more than 45,000 residents have to say about state policy. Every year, consensus opinions are amplified to state leaders to achieve policy change. You can learn more about the Center for Michigan at www.thecenterformichigan.net.

Hosts: Center for Michigan, Center for Local, State, and Urban Policy (CLOSUP) and the Gerald R. Ford School of Public Policy

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Film Screening Thu, 11 Oct 2018 17:11:03 -0400 2018-10-30T18:00:00-04:00 2018-10-30T19:30:00-04:00 Weill Hall (Ford School) Center for Local, State, and Urban Policy (CLOSUP) Film Screening
Fall Film Series: Contemporary Cinema from the Islamic World (October 30, 2018 7:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/53849 53849-13470107@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, October 30, 2018 7:00pm
Location: East Quadrangle
Organized By: Residential College

Called “the first Iranian Vampire Western,” A Girl Walks Home Alone At Night combines aspects of film noir, vampire films, and the setting of an Iranian ghost town to bring you the perfect film for Halloween season. (101 minutes)

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Film Screening Fri, 17 Aug 2018 12:21:29 -0400 2018-10-30T19:00:00-04:00 2018-10-30T22:00:00-04:00 East Quadrangle Residential College Film Screening Fall Film Series
International Studies Horror Filmfest (October 31, 2018 11:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/55917 55917-13805084@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, October 31, 2018 11:00am
Location: Hatcher Graduate Library
Organized By: University Library

It’s our annual Halloween spectacular, where we screen frightening foreign-language movies from around the world! All films are subtitled in English. Drop in for one or all of the movies. Snacks provided.

11:00 a.m. — Little Otik (Czech)
1:15 p.m. — What We Do in the Shadows (NZ)
3:00 p.m. — Ghost of Mae Nek (Thai)
5:00 p.m. — Go Goa Gone (India)

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Film Screening Tue, 16 Oct 2018 16:21:33 -0400 2018-10-31T11:00:00-04:00 2018-10-31T18:00:00-04:00 Hatcher Graduate Library University Library Film Screening Horror Film Fest poster
Murdered & Missing Indigenous Women (November 2, 2018 6:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/57071 57071-14083983@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, November 2, 2018 6:00pm
Location: East Quadrangle
Organized By: Multi Ethnic Student Affairs - MESA

Finding Dawn is a 2006 documentary film by Métis filmmaker Christine Welsh looking into the fate of an estimated 500 Canadian Aboriginal women who have been murdered or have gone missing over the past 30 years. The film will be followed by a panel of experts, including students, staff, faculty, and community members.

This event is a part of Native American Heritage Month which is celebrated throughout the month of November. For a full list of events, please visit MESA's website.

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Film Screening Thu, 25 Oct 2018 15:15:51 -0400 2018-11-02T18:00:00-04:00 2018-11-02T21:00:00-04:00 East Quadrangle Multi Ethnic Student Affairs - MESA Film Screening 2018 NAHM Calendar
Screening and Discussion of "GI Jews: Jewish Americans in World War II" (November 6, 2018 5:30pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/53364 53364-13349561@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, November 6, 2018 5:30pm
Location: Museum of Art
Organized By: Judaic Studies

GI Jews: Jewish Americans in World War II tells the story of the 550,000 Jewish American men and women who fought in World War II. In their own words, veterans both famous (director Mel Brooks, former Secretary of State Henry Kissinger) and unknown share their war experiences: how they fought for their nation and people, struggled with anti-Semitism within their ranks, and emerged transformed.

The screening of the film will be followed by a discussion with the film’s director, Lisa Ades, and Frederick G.L. Huetwell Professor of History Deborah Dash Moore.

All of UMMA’s public areas and galleries are wheelchair accessible. Please enter through the Frankel Family Wing entrance, located at the front of the building on State Street. Wheelchairs are available, and can be used inside the building for free on a first-come, first-served basis. Please ask one of UMMA’s Security Officers for assistance borrowing a wheelchair upon arrival. If you have a disability that requires an accommodation, contact judaicstuies@umich.edu or 734-763-9047.

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Film Screening Fri, 10 Aug 2018 13:29:07 -0400 2018-11-06T17:30:00-05:00 2018-11-06T19:00:00-05:00 Museum of Art Judaic Studies Film Screening GI Jews: Jewish Americans in World War II
Fall Film Series: Contemporary Cinema from the Islamic World (November 6, 2018 7:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/53850 53850-13470108@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, November 6, 2018 7:00pm
Location: East Quadrangle
Organized By: Residential College

After an airport janitor finds a captain’s hat, the neighborhood children ask him to tell them stories of his adventures as a pilot. An avid reader, Abu Raed tells them tales of places he’s only traveled in his books. Through the interactions of the characters, this film explores some of the class and gender issues in Amman. (102 minutes)

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Film Screening Fri, 17 Aug 2018 12:21:44 -0400 2018-11-06T19:00:00-05:00 2018-11-06T22:00:00-05:00 East Quadrangle Residential College Film Screening Fall Film Series
Veterans Week - Annual Veterans of Color Symposium and Reception (November 7, 2018 11:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/45895 45895-14121973@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, November 7, 2018 11:00am
Location: Hatcher Graduate Library
Organized By: Veteran and Military Services

The Veterans of Color Symposium recognizes and reflects on the experiences and contributions of Veterans of Color. The symposium consists of a speaker/panel, and or a documentary screening followed by a reception. This year the symposium will focus on the experiences of Arab-American veterans through a documentary screening and discussion.  A reception will follow the screening/discussion.

All are welcome and encouraged to attend

Sponsored by the University of Michigan Association of Black Professional Faculty, Administrators, and Staff (ABPFAS) and the University of Michigan Veterans Week Committee

This year the symposium will focus on the experiences of Latino veterans through screening and discussing part 3 of the documentary War and Peace. The documentary "War and Peace" (Part 3) traces the World War II years and those that follow, as Latino Americans serve their country by the hundreds of thousands — yet face discrimination and a fight for civil rights in the United States.

A reception will follow the screening/discussion.All are welcome and encouraged to attend
Sponsored by the Univerisity of Michigan Association of Black Professional Faculty, Administrators, and Staff (ABPFAS) and the University of Michigan Veterans Week Committee

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Film Screening Mon, 29 Oct 2018 16:05:46 -0400 2018-11-07T11:00:00-05:00 2018-11-07T14:00:00-05:00 Hatcher Graduate Library Veteran and Military Services Film Screening Veterans of Color poster
Almost Sunrise Film Screening (November 7, 2018 4:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/57173 57173-14121976@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, November 7, 2018 4:00pm
Location: Weill Hall (Ford School)
Organized By: Office of New Student Programs

What happens when Iraq Veterans try to overcome the brutalities of war?

Almost Sunrise follows two Iraq veterans, Tom Voss and Anthony Anderson, who were both tormented by depression for years after they returned home and were pushed to the edge of suicide. The two embark on an extraordinary journey – a 2,700 mile walk across the country from Wisconsin to California, in order to reflect on their haunting experiences of war and, ultimately, to save themselves.

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Film Screening Mon, 29 Oct 2018 16:21:40 -0400 2018-11-07T16:00:00-05:00 2018-11-07T18:00:00-05:00 Weill Hall (Ford School) Office of New Student Programs Film Screening Almost Sunrise Film Poster
International Movie Night Series: MNL 143 (November 8, 2018 7:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/57185 57185-14128647@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, November 8, 2018 7:00pm
Location: Industrial and Operations Engineering Building
Organized By: Engineering Office of Student Affairs

Let’s watch a movie together! A movie that tells a story that you have never heard…
We will watch four international movies from four different countries during the Fall term. The third movie is “MNL 143”.
3rd Movie: “MNL 143”
A snapshot of the random experiences and encounters of Ramil, a minivan driver on his final trip before leaving Manila to become one of the millions of overseas workers in the Middle East. Every day for five years, Ramil has plied the Buendia-Fairview route in hopes of encountering Mila, the woman he left behind to make his fortune abroad. Hardly the most efficient way to search for someone - especially in Manila - but we nevertheless believe Ramil is the kind of guy who would actually try. -IMDb

*This event is funded by Diversity, Equity & Inclusion and Office of Student Affairs.
**Jerusalem Garden will be served.

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Film Screening Tue, 30 Oct 2018 07:59:41 -0400 2018-11-08T19:00:00-05:00 2018-11-08T21:30:00-05:00 Industrial and Operations Engineering Building Engineering Office of Student Affairs Film Screening Industrial and Operations Engineering Building
The Glory of Life (2018) by Wang Qingsong (November 11, 2018 4:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/57525 57525-14209025@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Sunday, November 11, 2018 4:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Confucius Institute at the University of Michigan

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Synopsis

This documentary uncovers the production process of Wang Qingsong’s seminal art pieces from 2003 to 2018, including the most celebrated pieces such as “China Mansion” (2003), “Competition” (2004), “Come!Come!Come!” (2005), and “Follow You” (2013). Attempting to narrate the complex and chaotic composition of the world through his large-scale photos, Wang’s works display the surreal realities of incessant transformations in the world.

About Director Wang Qingsong

Wang Qingsong is an artist, photographer, educator and curator who represents a generation of Chinese cultural producers and creative intellectuals who continue to have a profound influence on contemporary art practices in the 21st century. Over the past 20 years, Wang Qingsong’s artistic works have played a pivotal role in the expansion of Chinese artists within the international art market, and more specifically in developing new roles for visual culture to flourish through his highly stylized photographic works.

Trailer: https://youtu.be/Gs-Zs-jtTvI

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Film Screening Thu, 08 Nov 2018 13:33:56 -0500 2018-11-11T16:00:00-05:00 2018-11-11T18:00:00-05:00 Off Campus Location Confucius Institute at the University of Michigan Film Screening Wang Qingsong Image
Fall Film Series: Contemporary Cinema from the Islamic World (November 13, 2018 7:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/53851 53851-13470109@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, November 13, 2018 7:00pm
Location: East Quadrangle
Organized By: Residential College

This documentary traces the Egyptian Revolution and its aftermath from 2011-2013. The film follows individuals from a range of demographics to show the different perspectives and desires of those calling for the change in Egypt. (108 minutes)

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Film Screening Fri, 17 Aug 2018 12:22:05 -0400 2018-11-13T19:00:00-05:00 2018-11-13T22:00:00-05:00 East Quadrangle Residential College Film Screening Fall Film Series
Screening of The Testament of Dr. Mabuse (November 14, 2018 6:30pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/56353 56353-13887617@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, November 14, 2018 6:30pm
Location: North Quad
Organized By: Germanic Languages & Literatures

A follow-up to the silent thriller Dr. Mabuse: The Gambler (1922), this proto-noir sound film from Fritz Lang follows criminal mastermind-turned-madman Doctor Mabuse (Rudolf Klein-Rogge) as he seeks to establish a criminal empire from an insane asylum. Banned by the Nazis soon after its release, Mabuse is a thought-provoking police procedural about madness, violence, and power. Screened in German with English subtitles.

This event is part of the monthly German Film Series and is sponsored by the University of Michigan Department of Germanic Languages and Literatures and the Max Kade House. See https://lsa.umich.edu/german for additional dates and films.

Each month, a German faculty, lecturer, or graduate student introduces and screens a different German-language film. Dinner will be provided at 6:30 pm, followed by the film at 7 pm.

Free and open to the public.

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Film Screening Thu, 11 Oct 2018 13:04:38 -0400 2018-11-14T18:30:00-05:00 2018-11-14T21:00:00-05:00 North Quad Germanic Languages & Literatures Film Screening The Testament of Dr. Mabuse
Arab American National Museum and CMENAS Film Screening. The Feeling of Being Watched + Talkback (November 15, 2018 7:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/55928 55928-13805097@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, November 15, 2018 7:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Center for Middle Eastern and North African Studies

In the Arab American neighborhood outside of Chicago where director Assia Boundaoui grew up, most of the neighbors think they have been under surveillance for over a decade. While investigating their experiences, Boundaoui uncovers tens of thousands of pages of FBI documents that prove her hometown was the subject of one of the largest counter-terrorism investigations ever conducted in the U.S. With unprecedented access, The Feeling of Being Watched follows Boundaoui as she pieces together a secret FBI operation and grapples with the effects of a lifetime of surveillance.

Dir. Assia Boundaoui
2018/USA/86 minutes
English and Arabic with English Subtitles

After the screening, there will be a talkback with director Assia Boundaoui

Cosponsor: Arab American National Museum

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Film Screening Mon, 24 Sep 2018 17:00:14 -0400 2018-11-15T19:00:00-05:00 2018-11-15T20:30:00-05:00 Off Campus Location Center for Middle Eastern and North African Studies Film Screening film_image
CSEAS Film Screening. Thai Movie Night: Love of Siam (November 15, 2018 7:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/57374 57374-14182269@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, November 15, 2018 7:00pm
Location: North Quad
Organized By: Center for Southeast Asian Studies

Two young boys are best friends living quiet family lives in Bangkok. Their lives are disrupted when one boy’s older sister goes missing on a jungle trip. The shattered family moves away, separating the boys. Years later, now in their late teens, the boys meet again. One of them is now the leader of an aspiring boy band whose managing assistant bears a striking resemblance to the lost sister. The boys must deal with their family and social lives and their feelings for each other.

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Film Screening Mon, 05 Nov 2018 09:40:04 -0500 2018-11-15T19:00:00-05:00 2018-11-15T21:00:00-05:00 North Quad Center for Southeast Asian Studies Film Screening film_image
Human Flow (2017) by Ai Weiwei (November 18, 2018 4:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/57523 57523-14209022@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Sunday, November 18, 2018 4:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Confucius Institute at the University of Michigan

All CIUM events are free and open to the public. Click HERE to see the film series schedule.

Synopsis

Over 65 million people around the world have been forced from their homes to escape famine, climate change and war in the greatest human displacement since World War II. Human Flow, an epic film journey led by the internationally renowned artist Ai Weiwei, gives a powerful visual expression to this massive human migration. The documentary elucidates both the staggering scale of the refugee crisis and its profoundly personal human impact.

Captured over the course of an eventful year in 23 countries, the film follows a chain of urgent human stories that stretches across the globe in countries including Afghanistan, Bangladesh, France, Greece, Germany, Iraq, Israel, Italy, Kenya, Mexico, and Turkey. Human Flow is a witness to its subjects and their desperate search for safety, shelter and justice: from teeming refugee camps to perilous ocean crossings to barbed-wire borders; from dislocation and disillusionment to courage, endurance and adaptation; from the haunting lure of lives left behind to the unknown potential of the future. Human Flow comes at a crucial time when tolerance, compassion and trust are needed more than ever. This visceral work of cinema is a testament to the unassailable human spirit and poses one of the questions that will define this century: Will our global society emerge from fear, isolation, and self-interest and choose a path of openness, freedom, and respect for humanity?

Amazon Studios and Participant Media present, in association with AC Films, Human Flow, a film directed by Ai Weiwei. Human Flow is produced by Ai Weiwei, Chin-Chin Yap and Heino Deckert and executive produced by Andrew Cohen of AC Films with Jeff Skoll and Diane Weyermann of Participant Media.

– Courtesy of Amazon Studio

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Film Screening Thu, 08 Nov 2018 10:14:03 -0500 2018-11-18T16:00:00-05:00 2018-11-18T18:00:00-05:00 Off Campus Location Confucius Institute at the University of Michigan Film Screening Human Flow
LingoMatch Screening 'Human Flow' (November 19, 2018 7:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/57046 57046-14075028@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Monday, November 19, 2018 7:00pm
Location: Hatcher Graduate Library
Organized By: University Library

Please join LingoMatch, a student organization focused on language access in migrant, refugee, and asylum-seeking populations, for a viewing of the film Human Flow, which delves into the challenges and realities many refugees and asylum seekers endure as they journey from their homeland to a new space.

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Film Screening Wed, 24 Oct 2018 09:51:07 -0400 2018-11-19T19:00:00-05:00 2018-11-19T22:00:00-05:00 Hatcher Graduate Library University Library Film Screening Human Flow movie poster
Fall Film Series: Contemporary Cinema from the Islamic World (November 20, 2018 7:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/53852 53852-13470110@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, November 20, 2018 7:00pm
Location: East Quadrangle
Organized By: Residential College

Ali Zaoua follows a group of homeless kids living in Casablanca. When one of the group is killed, three of his friends resolve to give him a proper funeral. The roles of the children are played by actual kids who lived on the streets. (90 minutes)

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Film Screening Fri, 17 Aug 2018 12:22:27 -0400 2018-11-20T19:00:00-05:00 2018-11-20T22:00:00-05:00 East Quadrangle Residential College Film Screening Fall Film Series
Fall Film Series: Contemporary Cinema from the Islamic World (November 27, 2018 7:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/53853 53853-13470111@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, November 27, 2018 7:00pm
Location: East Quadrangle
Organized By: Residential College

Taking place largely around a beauty salon, Caramel follows the lives of a group of women living in Beirut. Each woman is dealing with her own personal problem: affairs, aging, questioning sexuality, traditional notions of femininity, and balancing a personal life with family obligations. (96 minutes)

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Film Screening Fri, 17 Aug 2018 12:19:55 -0400 2018-11-27T19:00:00-05:00 2018-11-27T22:00:00-05:00 East Quadrangle Residential College Film Screening Fall Film Series
PCAP Membership Meeting Fall 2018 (November 28, 2018 6:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/55947 55947-13811915@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, November 28, 2018 6:00pm
Location: East Quadrangle
Organized By: Prison Creative Arts Project, The

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Film Screening Tue, 25 Sep 2018 08:04:07 -0400 2018-11-28T18:00:00-05:00 2018-11-28T20:00:00-05:00 East Quadrangle Prison Creative Arts Project, The Film Screening East Quadrangle
International Movie Night Series: "In a Better World" (November 29, 2018 7:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/57853 57853-14363802@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, November 29, 2018 7:00pm
Location: Industrial and Operations Engineering Building
Organized By: Engineering Office of Student Affairs

Let’s watch a movie together! A movie that tells a story that you have never heard…

“In a Better World”

Anton is a doctor who commutes between his home in an idyllic town in Denmark, and his work at an African refugee camp. In these two very different worlds, he and his family are faced with conflicts that lead them to difficult choices between revenge and forgiveness. Anton and his wife Marianne, who have two young sons, are separated and struggling with the possibility of divorce. Their older, ten-year-old son Elias is being bullied at school, until he is defended by Christian, a new boy who has just moved from London with his father, Claus. Christian’s mother recently lost her battle with cancer, and Christian is greatly troubled by her death. Elias and Christian quickly form a strong bond, but when Christian involves Elias in a dangerous act of revenge with potentially tragic consequences, their friendship is tested and lives are put in danger. Ultimately, it is their parents who are left to help them come to terms with the complexity of human emotions, pain and empathy. – Rotten Tomatoes

*This event is funded by Diversity, Equity & Inclusion and Office of Student Affairs.

**Dinner will be served.

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Film Screening Mon, 26 Nov 2018 09:15:19 -0500 2018-11-29T19:00:00-05:00 2018-11-29T21:00:00-05:00 Industrial and Operations Engineering Building Engineering Office of Student Affairs Film Screening Industrial and Operations Engineering Building
Dogcember (December 2, 2018 2:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/57919 57919-14375188@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Sunday, December 2, 2018 2:00pm
Location: Bursley Hall
Organized By: Maize Pages Student Organizations

Come out to the Bursley Courtyard from 2-4pm on December 2nd to hang out with some awesome therapy dogs and de-stress! Then, swing by the Blue Apple at 7:00pm to watch Underdog, get some popcorn, and claim your free de-stress kit. 

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Film Screening Sun, 02 Dec 2018 18:00:07 -0500 2018-12-02T14:00:00-05:00 2018-12-02T21:00:00-05:00 Bursley Hall Maize Pages Student Organizations Film Screening Bursley Hall
Dogcember (December 2, 2018 7:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/57920 57920-14375189@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Sunday, December 2, 2018 7:00pm
Location: Blue Apple (at Bursley Hall)
Organized By: Maize Pages Student Organizations

Come out to the Bursley Courtyard from 2-4pm on December 2nd to hang out with some awesome therapy dogs and de-stress! Then, swing by the Blue Apple at 7:00pm to watch UnderDog, get some popcorn, and claim your free de-stress kit. 

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Film Screening Sun, 02 Dec 2018 18:00:08 -0500 2018-12-02T19:00:00-05:00 2018-12-02T21:00:00-05:00 Blue Apple (at Bursley Hall) Maize Pages Student Organizations Film Screening
SCREENING: Y Tu Mama Tambien (December 2, 2018 9:45pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/58096 58096-14411689@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Sunday, December 2, 2018 9:45pm
Location: 936 Mary St
Organized By: Maize Pages Student Organizations

ANN ARBOR CINEMA CLUB screening Y Tu Mama Tambien! Join us Tomorrow @ 9:45 PM - See FB page for more info

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Film Screening Sun, 02 Dec 2018 18:00:08 -0500 2018-12-02T21:45:00-05:00 2018-12-02T22:45:00-05:00 936 Mary St Maize Pages Student Organizations Film Screening
Fall Film Series: Contemporary Cinema from the Islamic World (December 4, 2018 7:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/53855 53855-13470114@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, December 4, 2018 7:00pm
Location: East Quadrangle
Organized By: Residential College

Paradise Now tells the story of two Palestinian men as they prepare to conduct a suicide attack in Israel. A tense thriller, the film complicates typical portrayals of suicide bombers by revealing the human side of the two men—from questioning what they are doing, to the benign acts of daily life they engage in during the process of preparation. (90 minutes)

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Film Screening Fri, 17 Aug 2018 12:18:19 -0400 2018-12-04T19:00:00-05:00 2018-12-04T22:00:00-05:00 East Quadrangle Residential College Film Screening Fall Film Series
Korean Cinema NOW | Burning | 버닝 (December 7, 2018 12:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/58149 58149-14433284@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, December 7, 2018 12:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Nam Center for Korean Studies

Starring Steven Yeun, Jeon Jong-Seo, and Yoo Ah-In. Jongsu is a frustrated introvert whose already difficult life is complicated by the appearance of two people into his orbit: first, Haemi, a spirited woman who offers romantic possibility, and then, Ben (Yeun), a wealthy and sophisticated young man Haemi returns from a trip with. When Jongsu learns of Ben’s mysterious hobby and Haemi suddenly disappears, his confusion and obsessions begin to mount, culminating in a stunning finale. Presented in Korean with English subtitles.

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Film Screening Tue, 04 Dec 2018 10:38:03 -0500 2018-12-07T12:00:00-05:00 2018-12-07T14:00:00-05:00 Off Campus Location Nam Center for Korean Studies Film Screening Burning | 버닝
Green Movie Series (December 7, 2018 7:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/57996 57996-14386041@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, December 7, 2018 7:00pm
Location: Duderstadt Center
Organized By: Engineering Student Government

Join us in watching "A Plastic Ocean", an enlightening movie about how humans impact the environment. We will eat dinner, provide reusable tupperware for you to take home with you, and engage in a discussion about the intersection of engineering and sustainability.

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Film Screening Wed, 28 Nov 2018 22:11:53 -0500 2018-12-07T19:00:00-05:00 2018-12-07T21:00:00-05:00 Duderstadt Center Engineering Student Government Film Screening 7pm, 1180 Duderstadt
Love Actually Screening and Dialogue (December 10, 2018 6:30pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/58230 58230-14444072@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Monday, December 10, 2018 6:30pm
Location: Central Campus Recreation Building (Bell Pool)
Organized By: Sexual Assault Prevention and Awareness Center (SAPAC)

Make sure your LOVE is ACTUALLY expressed this holiday!

Join SAPAC's Consent, Outreach & Relationship Education (CORE) Program as we present the film Love Actually, followed by a dialogue where we’ll discuss consent, healthy relationships, and respect.

Feel empowered this holiday season and go into the New Year feeling knowledgeable about how to convey love to those you care about!

Free popcorn will be provided!

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Film Screening Wed, 05 Dec 2018 13:26:10 -0500 2018-12-10T18:30:00-05:00 2018-12-10T22:00:00-05:00 Central Campus Recreation Building (Bell Pool) Sexual Assault Prevention and Awareness Center (SAPAC) Film Screening Recreation of Love Actually DVD cover in blue, pink, and purple, with same details as listed in event description.
2018 Premiere: Filming the Future of Detroit (December 14, 2018 8:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/58372 58372-14491979@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, December 14, 2018 8:00pm
Location: East Quadrangle
Organized By: Department of Afroamerican and African Studies

Please join us for the premiere of the films created by students in the "Filming the Future of Detroit" course.

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Film Screening Tue, 11 Dec 2018 09:16:07 -0500 2018-12-14T20:00:00-05:00 2018-12-14T22:00:00-05:00 East Quadrangle Department of Afroamerican and African Studies Film Screening East Quadrangle
2018 Premiere: Filming the Future of Detroit (December 15, 2018 7:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/58373 58373-14491980@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Saturday, December 15, 2018 7:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Department of Afroamerican and African Studies

Please join us for the premiere of projects created by students from the University of Michigan.

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Film Screening Tue, 11 Dec 2018 09:22:05 -0500 2018-12-15T19:00:00-05:00 2018-12-15T21:00:00-05:00 Off Campus Location Department of Afroamerican and African Studies Film Screening
CJS Icons of Anime Film Series | Akira (January 9, 2019 7:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/58888 58888-14569996@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, January 9, 2019 7:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Center for Japanese Studies

Due to popular demand, the State Theater has added a second showing: 9:30 pm.

Note: There will be a panel discussion at 6:30pm, before the first screening, with Markus Nornes, Jim Pyke and Misha Mihailova.

In 1988 the Japanese government drops an atomic bomb on Tokyo after ESP experiments on children go awry. In 2019, 31 years after the nuking of the city, Kaneda, a bike gang leader, tries to save his friend Tetsuo from a secret government project. He battles anti-government activists, greedy politicians, irresponsible scientists and a powerful military leader until Tetsuo's supernatural powers suddenly manifest. A final battle is fought in Tokyo Olympiad exposing the experiment's secrets. Presented in Japanese with English subtitles.

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Film Screening Mon, 07 Jan 2019 12:31:34 -0500 2019-01-09T19:00:00-05:00 2019-01-09T21:00:00-05:00 Off Campus Location Center for Japanese Studies Film Screening Akira
CJS Icons of Anime Film Series | Akira (January 9, 2019 9:30pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/58888 58888-14719614@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, January 9, 2019 9:30pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Center for Japanese Studies

Due to popular demand, the State Theater has added a second showing: 9:30 pm.

Note: There will be a panel discussion at 6:30pm, before the first screening, with Markus Nornes, Jim Pyke and Misha Mihailova.

In 1988 the Japanese government drops an atomic bomb on Tokyo after ESP experiments on children go awry. In 2019, 31 years after the nuking of the city, Kaneda, a bike gang leader, tries to save his friend Tetsuo from a secret government project. He battles anti-government activists, greedy politicians, irresponsible scientists and a powerful military leader until Tetsuo's supernatural powers suddenly manifest. A final battle is fought in Tokyo Olympiad exposing the experiment's secrets. Presented in Japanese with English subtitles.

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Film Screening Mon, 07 Jan 2019 12:31:34 -0500 2019-01-09T21:30:00-05:00 2019-01-09T23:30:00-05:00 Off Campus Location Center for Japanese Studies Film Screening Akira
Korean Cinema NOW | 1987: When the Day Comes (January 12, 2019 1:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/58181 58181-14435454@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Saturday, January 12, 2019 1:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Nam Center for Korean Studies

2017 | 129 Minutes | Joon-hawn Jang

Free | Open to the public | In Korean with English subtitles

"In the fight for human rights and democracy, a single spark can ignite a mighty flame, as illustrated by “1987: When the Day Comes,” a star-studded, fact-based political thriller that reconstructs a turning point in South Korean history triggered by the death of a student. Directed by Jang Joon-hwan with a combination of humanistic ardor and intelligent insight comparable to the measured procedural mode of “Spotlight,” this is a compelling depiction of how brave individuals from all walks of life mobilized a whole nation to bring a recalcitrant dictator and his henchmen to their knees." - Maggie Lee, Variety

Check out Variety's full review: https://variety.com/2018/film/reviews/1987-when-the-day-comes-review-1202653168/]

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Film Screening Wed, 05 Dec 2018 15:13:04 -0500 2019-01-12T13:00:00-05:00 2019-01-12T15:10:00-05:00 Off Campus Location Nam Center for Korean Studies Film Screening 1987: When the Day Comes
“Hailing Cesar” Film Screening and Discussion (January 15, 2019 6:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/59457 59457-14743430@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, January 15, 2019 6:00pm
Location: Rackham Graduate School (Horace H.)
Organized By: Trotter Multicultural Center

In partnership with Multi-Ethnic Student Affairs (MESA), University Housing, and the U-M Latina/o Studies Program, the Trotter Distinguished Leadership Series invites you to the “Hailing Cesar” film screening and discussion with Eduardo Chavez, grandson of civil rights activist César Chávez.

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Film Screening Thu, 10 Jan 2019 11:21:53 -0500 2019-01-15T18:00:00-05:00 2019-01-15T20:00:00-05:00 Rackham Graduate School (Horace H.) Trotter Multicultural Center Film Screening Hailing Cesar Flyer
CJS Icons of Anime Film Series | Perfect Blue (January 16, 2019 7:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/58906 58906-14576225@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, January 16, 2019 7:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Center for Japanese Studies

Mima was a pop idol, worshipped by the masses until fashion dictated otherwise. In order to salvage her career, she is advised to drop music and pursue acting, however, her reality is shaken when she is stalked by an obsessed fan and seemingly a ghost of her past.Presented in Japanese with English subtitles.

"Perfect Blue represents a major change from traditional anime subject matter, analysing the pop icon phenomenon, fame and its psychological impact on the performer." (Rotten Tomatoes)

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Film Screening Fri, 21 Dec 2018 11:21:29 -0500 2019-01-16T19:00:00-05:00 2019-01-16T21:00:00-05:00 Off Campus Location Center for Japanese Studies Film Screening CJS Icons of Anime Film Series | Perfect Blue
CMENAS Film Screening. "Rachel" (January 18, 2019 4:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/58856 58856-14567897@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, January 18, 2019 4:00pm
Location: Weiser Hall
Organized By: Center for Middle Eastern and North African Studies

On March 16, 2003, in the almost uninterrupted tide of Middle Eastern current affairs and just before the war in Iraq, a small tragic event was reported by some press agencies, just a few lines in the newspaper, or a 45 -second report on television: A young American peace activist was killed in the Gaza Strip, crushed by an Israeli bulldozer while she was trying to prevent the destruction of a Palestinian house.

A few weeks later, some media reports mentioned that the Israeli military police conducted an inquiry, concluding that Rachel Corrie's death was accidental. Despite many eyewitnesses claims that she was intentionally murdered by the bulldozer driver, the American administration never asked for an independent inquiry, and the case was classified and forgotten.

Five years later, director Simone Bitton is somehow doing what a court should have done. "RACHEL" is a deep cinema investigation into the death of a young unknown girl, made with a rigour and scope normally reserved for first-rate historical characters. It gives word to all the people involved in Rachel's story, from Palestinian and international witnesses to Israeli military spokespersons and investigators, doctors, activists and soldiers linked to the affair. The film begins as a classical documentary, but very soon it develops and transcends its subject, transforming into a cinematographic meditation on youth, war, idealism and political utopia. Palestine, the reality of which is filmed close-up, becomes a metaphor - a tomb for a child of today.

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If you are a person with a disability who requires an accommodation to attend this event, please reach out to us at least 2 weeks in advance of this event. Please be aware that advance notice is necessary as some accommodations may require more time for the university to arrange. Contact: Jessica Hill Riggs, jessmhil@umich.edu

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Film Screening Thu, 20 Dec 2018 10:28:17 -0500 2019-01-18T16:00:00-05:00 2019-01-18T18:00:00-05:00 Weiser Hall Center for Middle Eastern and North African Studies Film Screening film_image
On the Basis of Sex (January 18, 2019 5:30pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/59613 59613-14754565@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, January 18, 2019 5:30pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Department of History

Screening of the Ruth Bader Ginsburg biopic On the Basis of Sex at the Michigan Theater. Free admission for those with a University of Michigan ID (Mcard) on a first-come, first-served basis. Seating is limited.

The film tells an inspiring and spirited true story that follows young lawyer Ruth Bader Ginsburg (Felicity Jones) as she teams with her husband Marty (Armie Hammer) to bring a groundbreaking case before the US Court of Appeals and overturn a century of gender discrimination. Also stars Justin Theroux, Kathy Bates and Sam Waterston. 120 min. Biography/Drama. PG-13.

Sponsored by the University of Michigan Department of History.

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Film Screening Fri, 11 Jan 2019 15:22:16 -0500 2019-01-18T17:30:00-05:00 2019-01-18T19:30:00-05:00 Off Campus Location Department of History Film Screening movie poster
Korean Cinema NOW | Microhabitat / 소공녀 (January 19, 2019 1:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/58183 58183-14435498@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Saturday, January 19, 2019 1:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Nam Center for Korean Studies

2017 | 106 Minutes | Go-woon Jeon

Free | Open to the public | In Korean with English subtitles

Perhaps the most impressive Korean debut at Busan this year, the thoughtful and entertaining Microhabitat is a convincing showcase for star Esom and and an even more impressive calling card for director Jeon Go-woon, who becomes the first woman in the Gwanghwamun Cinema group to helm a feature, and her debut may well be the collective's best yet.

Miso is a 31-year-old housekeeper who lives strategically on a small budget but leaves enough aside for her daily vices, which includes a pack of cigarettes and a glass of whiskey. When New Year's Day in 2014 brings about a 2,000 won ($2) across-the-board price hike on cigarettes, rather than cut back on the habit, she gives up having a roof over her head and begins to surf through the couches of her old college friends, each of whom has their particular circumstances that don't allow her to stick around for long." - Pierce Conran, ScreenAnarchy

Check out ScreenAnarchy's full review:https://screenanarchy.com/2017/10/busan-2017-review-microhabitat-a-poignant-and-lively-debut.html

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Film Screening Wed, 05 Dec 2018 15:13:47 -0500 2019-01-19T13:00:00-05:00 2019-01-19T14:50:00-05:00 Off Campus Location Nam Center for Korean Studies Film Screening Microhabitat / 소공녀
2019 Iranian Film Festival of Ann Arbor (January 20, 2019 3:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/59654 59654-14777841@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Sunday, January 20, 2019 3:00pm
Location: Rackham Graduate School (Horace H.)
Organized By: Department of Middle East Studies

January 20: Tehran Has No More Pomegranates (2006), directed by Massoud Bakhshi

January 27: Marriage of the Blessed (1989), directed by Mohsen Makhmalbaf

February 3: The Hidden Half (2001), directed by Tahmineh Milani

February 10: No One Knows About Persian Cats (2009), directed by Bahman Ghobadi

February 17: The Salesman (2016), directed by Asghar Farhadi

February 24: Sound and Fury (2016), directed by Houman Seyedi

Every Sunday at 3:00PM | Rackham Amphitheatre
915 E. Washington St., Ann Arbor, MI 48109

For more information, visit https://sites.lsa.umich.edu/iranian-studies/filmfest

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Film Screening Mon, 14 Jan 2019 13:13:59 -0500 2019-01-20T15:00:00-05:00 2019-01-20T17:00:00-05:00 Rackham Graduate School (Horace H.) Department of Middle East Studies Film Screening Film Festival Poster
Strolling Screening of Jana Pareigis' Afro.Germany (January 21, 2019 12:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/59798 59798-14806086@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Monday, January 21, 2019 12:00pm
Location: Hatcher Graduate Library
Organized By: Germanic Languages & Literatures

As we celebrate the extraordinary life and message of Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. it is important to note that his vision of hope and racial equality had ripple effects not just through our nation, but across the pond as well. It is with the intention of adding an international perspective to the discussion of race and race relations that the the German department is proud to present Jana Pareigis' investigative film Afro.Germany, in which Pareigis travels across Germany asking the questions: What is it like to be a black person in Germany? And what needs to change?

The event will take place in two locations on January 21, 2019 in the Hatcher Gallery from noon - 2:30, and MLB 3308 from 2pm-5pm. Played on a continuous loop, audiences are invited to come and view as much, or as little, of this journalistic film as they wish.

*Content notice: this documentary includes the use of the n-word in the context of the subject matter at hand regarding the lived experiences of Black Germans

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Film Screening Thu, 17 Jan 2019 14:48:06 -0500 2019-01-21T12:00:00-05:00 2019-01-21T14:30:00-05:00 Hatcher Graduate Library Germanic Languages & Literatures Film Screening Afro.Germany
Strolling Screening of Jana Pareigis' Afro.Germany (January 21, 2019 2:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/59798 59798-14788677@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Monday, January 21, 2019 2:00pm
Location: Modern Languages Building
Organized By: Germanic Languages & Literatures

As we celebrate the extraordinary life and message of Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. it is important to note that his vision of hope and racial equality had ripple effects not just through our nation, but across the pond as well. It is with the intention of adding an international perspective to the discussion of race and race relations that the the German department is proud to present Jana Pareigis' investigative film Afro.Germany, in which Pareigis travels across Germany asking the questions: What is it like to be a black person in Germany? And what needs to change?

The event will take place in two locations on January 21, 2019 in the Hatcher Gallery from noon - 2:30, and MLB 3308 from 2pm-5pm. Played on a continuous loop, audiences are invited to come and view as much, or as little, of this journalistic film as they wish.

*Content notice: this documentary includes the use of the n-word in the context of the subject matter at hand regarding the lived experiences of Black Germans

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Film Screening Thu, 17 Jan 2019 14:48:06 -0500 2019-01-21T14:00:00-05:00 2019-01-21T17:00:00-05:00 Modern Languages Building Germanic Languages & Literatures Film Screening Afro.Germany
The Power of Race: Unravelling the Illusion (Implications for Kinesiology) (January 21, 2019 2:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/60001 60001-14812531@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Monday, January 21, 2019 2:00pm
Location: Central Campus Recreation Building (Bell Pool)
Organized By: School of Kinesiology

This School of Kinesiology MLK Day event will feature a screening of the documentary "Race: The Power of an Illusion." Following the screening will be an audience reflection and discussion, and a reception with light refreshments served. Please join us!

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Film Screening Fri, 18 Jan 2019 09:58:28 -0500 2019-01-21T14:00:00-05:00 2019-01-21T16:00:00-05:00 Central Campus Recreation Building (Bell Pool) School of Kinesiology Film Screening The Power of Race: Unravelling the Illusion
Forbidden: Undocumented and Queer in Rural America (January 21, 2019 7:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/58890 58890-14572066@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Monday, January 21, 2019 7:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: School of Music, Theatre & Dance

The Department of Dance has invited Tiffany Rhynard for residency from January 21st to 25th -- with a special focus on screenings of her award-winning documentary, Forbidden: Undocumented and Queer in Rural America with an artist talk back.

"Forbidden" is the story of a young undocumented gay activist and his fight for the American Dream. Forbidden premiered summer 2016 in at Outfest Film Festival in Los Angeles where it received the Freedom Award. The film has gone on to receive numerous awards, notably from the Southern Poverty Law Center who bestowed their first ever Social Justice Film Award to the Forbidden team. The American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU) has partnered with Logo TV to distribute the film.

Tiffany Rhynard is an artist, activist, and mother compelled to make work that reflects current social issues. Her professional labels include filmmaker, choreographer, dancer, and educator. Having created over 60 works for stage and screen, Rhynard’s choreography, dance films, and documentaries have been presented nationwide from NYC to San Francisco, and internationally in Europe. Her dance for the camera pieces have screened at film/video festivals such as the Dancing for the Camera at the American Dance Festival and at ScreenDance Miami 2015 where she won First Prize for her film Invisible Queens. Her documentary films focus on issues of social justice and equality. Little House in the Big House (2012) won best documentary at the Central Illinois Feminist Film Festival.

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Film Screening Wed, 16 Jan 2019 16:03:39 -0500 2019-01-21T19:00:00-05:00 Off Campus Location School of Music, Theatre & Dance Film Screening Forbidden
Wo Ist Coletti? (1913) (January 23, 2019 6:30pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/59915 59915-14797386@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, January 23, 2019 6:30pm
Location: North Quad
Organized By: Germanic Languages & Literatures

*With LIVE musical accompaniment & dinner

Max Mack’s Where is Coletti? (1913) is the first known detective film from the German-speaking world. But rather than chart the piecemeal resolution of a sensational crime, it is the comedic Detective Coletti that the film pursues. Gone incognito in the bustling metropolis of Berlin, Coletti dares the public to play detective--to scan city streets and sweep crowded cafes in search of their elusive prey. Berliners have 48 hours to find Coletti and turn in him in for a handsome reward of 100.000 Mark.

Light dinner served at 6:30, film introduced at 7:00 by Graduate Student Kathryn Holihan of the Department of Germanic Languages and Literatures. Screened in German with English subtitles.

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Film Screening Tue, 22 Jan 2019 11:08:09 -0500 2019-01-23T18:30:00-05:00 2019-01-23T21:00:00-05:00 North Quad Germanic Languages & Literatures Film Screening Wo Ist Coletti
CJS Icons of Anime Film Series | Spirited Away (January 23, 2019 7:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/58907 58907-14576226@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, January 23, 2019 7:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Center for Japanese Studies

In this animated feature by noted Japanese director Hayao Miyazaki, 10-year-old Chihiro and her parents stumble upon a seemingly abandoned amusement park. After her mother and father are turned into giant pigs, Chihiro meets the mysterious Haku, who explains that the park is a resort for supernatural beings who need a break from their time spent in the earthly realm, and that she must work there to free herself and her parents. Presented in Japanese with English subtitles.

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Film Screening Fri, 21 Dec 2018 11:24:55 -0500 2019-01-23T19:00:00-05:00 2019-01-23T21:00:00-05:00 Off Campus Location Center for Japanese Studies Film Screening CJS Icons of Anime Film Series | Spirited Away
CPPS Film and Discussion. "The Return" (January 24, 2019 7:15pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/59372 59372-14734940@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, January 24, 2019 7:15pm
Location: Dana Building
Organized By: Copernicus Center for Polish Studies

The Copernicus Program in Polish Studies is pleased to cosponsor the screening of Adam Zucker's documentary, "The Return." The film follows four young Polish women and their experiences discovering their Jewish identity in a place that used to be the center of Jewish society. Following the film, there will be a discussion with Adam Zucker and Professor Geneviève Zubrzycki, CPPS director.

To learn more about the documentary, watch the trailer here (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sd3h_659yZ0) or see the film website (https://www.thereturndocumentary.com).

The event is free and open to the public - please RSVP here: http://myumi.ch/aK2Rq

If you are a person with a disability who requires an accommodation to attend this event, please reach out to ayedwab@umich.edu in advance of this event. Please be aware that advance notice is necessary as some accommodations may require more time for the university to arrange.

Co-sponsored by Michigan Hillel SHARE (Students for Holocaust Awareness, Remembrance, and Education), and the Frankel Center for Judaic Studies.

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Film Screening Tue, 15 Jan 2019 15:13:11 -0500 2019-01-24T19:15:00-05:00 2019-01-24T21:15:00-05:00 Dana Building Copernicus Center for Polish Studies Film Screening The Return
The Return Documentary Screening (January 24, 2019 7:15pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/59376 59376-14736911@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, January 24, 2019 7:15pm
Location: 1040 Dana Building
Organized By: Maize Pages Student Organizations

Please join us on January 24th at 7:15pm at 1040 Dana Building for a screening of Adam Zucker's documentary, The Return. This film follows four young Polish women and their experiences discovering their Jewish identity in a place that used to be the center of Jewish society. Following the film, there will be a discussion held by Director Adam Zucker and Professor Geneviève Zubrzycki of the Copernicus Program in Polish Studies. The event is co-hosted with the Polish and Judaic Studies Departments

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Film Screening Thu, 24 Jan 2019 18:00:16 -0500 2019-01-24T19:15:00-05:00 2019-01-24T21:15:00-05:00 1040 Dana Building Maize Pages Student Organizations Film Screening
CareForce One Travelogues Film Screening & Panel Discussion (January 26, 2019 1:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/58732 58732-14546901@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Saturday, January 26, 2019 1:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Penny W Stamps School of Art & Design

Please join Stamps Gallery in partnership with Michigan United for a screening of CareForce One Travelogues, a documentary by artist Marisa Morán Jahn about the fastest growing workforce in America: caregivers. The film will be introduced by the filmmaker followed by a panel discussion featuring local care workers and care worker organizers, moderated by Michigan United, Universal Family Care Organizer, Oriana Powell.  The event will conclude with closing remarks from Powell and Michigan United Michigan Caring Majority Campaign Director, Laura DePalma, on current advocacy initiatives that exist around these issues and action steps for moving forward. 

CareForce One Travelogues features artist Marisa, her son (Choco), and their buddy Anjum traveling in their car, the CareForce One, seeking solutions to the nation’s care crisis. The team sets off in New York City, meeting up with domestic employers and domestic workers (nannies, housekeepers, caregivers for the elderly/sick/disabled) along the way, and culminating in Miami. Mixing levity with hard-hitting stories around immigration, the legacies of slavery, racial discrimination, and more, the CareForce One is a road movie that invites its viewers to laugh and cry at the same time. Supported by Sundance, Tribeca Film Institute, National Endowment for the Arts, and more.

Event Speakers (more to be announced):

Marisa Morán Jahn is an artist, filmmaker, and creative technologist of Ecuadorian and Chinese descent based in NYC. She is the founder of Studio REV, a non-profit organization that codesigns public art and creative media co-designed with low-wage workers, immigrants, and women.  Jahn is an Assistant Professor at The New School and a Visiting Artist at MIT’s Art, Culture, and Technology (her alma mater) and Teacher’s College of Columbia University.

Laura De Palma is a community organizer and the campaign director of the Michigan Caring Majority, a movement and coalition to win progressive legislation around universal long-term care, a living wage for direct care workers, compensation and support for family caregivers, paid family medical leave, and universal child care for Michiganders. She received a Master of Social Work (MSW) from the University of Michigan - Ann Arbor.

Oriana Powell is a community organizer born and raised in Detroit, MI. She is a mother of a two year old and former childcare and in-home care provider. Oriana is working directly with both professional and non-traditional caregivers to gain respect and support for the care workforce through proper training and compensation for caregivers. Oriana is determined to rebuild the village and community that Detroiters are missing.

This event is presented in partnership with Michigan United and held in conjunction with the Stamps Gallery exhibition Marisa Morán Jahn: The Mighty and the Mythic.

Please RSVP to reserve your place for this free event: https://www.eventbrite.com/e/careforce-one-travelogues-film-screening-and-discussion-tickets-54412471166

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Film Screening Mon, 14 Jan 2019 18:15:26 -0500 2019-01-26T13:00:00-05:00 2019-01-26T15:00:00-05:00 Off Campus Location Penny W Stamps School of Art & Design Film Screening https://stamps.umich.edu/images/uploads/exhibitions/Careforceone_Film_Screening.jpg
Korean Cinema NOW | Believer / 독전 (January 26, 2019 1:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/58182 58182-14435455@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Saturday, January 26, 2019 1:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Nam Center for Korean Studies

2018 | 123 Minutes | Directed by Hae-young Lee

Free | Open to the public | In Korean with English subtitles

'Believer' is a wild and boisterous crime drama that’s evenly split between romanticizing the back-and-forth between cops and robbers, and lamenting the pointlessness of that endless pursuit. Directed by Lee Hae-young, a rising talent whose distaste for half-measures was already on full display in his previous work (e.g. 2015’s “The Silenced”), the film espouses a violent commitment to both sides of that coin — the fun of the chase, and the hollow pain that someone feels when it finally catches up to them." - David Ehrlich, Indiewire

Check out Indiewire's full review: https://www.indiewire.com/2018/06/believer-review-lee-hae-young-1201971963/

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Film Screening Thu, 06 Dec 2018 08:15:15 -0500 2019-01-26T13:00:00-05:00 2019-01-26T15:05:00-05:00 Off Campus Location Nam Center for Korean Studies Film Screening Believer / 독전
2019 Iranian Film Festival of Ann Arbor (January 27, 2019 3:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/59654 59654-14777842@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Sunday, January 27, 2019 3:00pm
Location: Rackham Graduate School (Horace H.)
Organized By: Department of Middle East Studies

January 20: Tehran Has No More Pomegranates (2006), directed by Massoud Bakhshi

January 27: Marriage of the Blessed (1989), directed by Mohsen Makhmalbaf

February 3: The Hidden Half (2001), directed by Tahmineh Milani

February 10: No One Knows About Persian Cats (2009), directed by Bahman Ghobadi

February 17: The Salesman (2016), directed by Asghar Farhadi

February 24: Sound and Fury (2016), directed by Houman Seyedi

Every Sunday at 3:00PM | Rackham Amphitheatre
915 E. Washington St., Ann Arbor, MI 48109

For more information, visit https://sites.lsa.umich.edu/iranian-studies/filmfest

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Film Screening Mon, 14 Jan 2019 13:13:59 -0500 2019-01-27T15:00:00-05:00 2019-01-27T17:00:00-05:00 Rackham Graduate School (Horace H.) Department of Middle East Studies Film Screening Film Festival Poster
CJS Icons of Anime Film Series | Your Name (January 30, 2019 7:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/58908 58908-14576227@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, January 30, 2019 7:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Center for Japanese Studies

From Director Makoto Shinkai comes a beautiful masterpiece about time, the thread of fate, and the hearts of two young souls. A teenage boy and girl embark on a quest to meet each other for the first time after they magically swap bodies. Presented in Japanese with English subtitles.

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Film Screening Fri, 21 Dec 2018 11:35:09 -0500 2019-01-30T19:00:00-05:00 2019-01-30T21:00:00-05:00 Off Campus Location Center for Japanese Studies Film Screening Your Name
Filmabend (January 30, 2019 7:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/56040 56040-14777942@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, January 30, 2019 7:00pm
Location: North Quad
Organized By: Germanic Languages & Literatures

German Club will be hosting a Filmabend in the Video Viewing Room of the LRC. The film (TBD) will be in German with English subtitles. If you have any questions, please contact Parker (pbhill@umich.edu) or Bridget (bridgloc@umich.edu).

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Film Screening Wed, 26 Sep 2018 11:14:09 -0400 2019-01-30T19:00:00-05:00 2019-01-30T21:00:00-05:00 North Quad Germanic Languages & Literatures Film Screening North Quad
2019 Iranian Film Festival of Ann Arbor (February 3, 2019 3:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/59654 59654-14777843@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Sunday, February 3, 2019 3:00pm
Location: Rackham Graduate School (Horace H.)
Organized By: Department of Middle East Studies

January 20: Tehran Has No More Pomegranates (2006), directed by Massoud Bakhshi

January 27: Marriage of the Blessed (1989), directed by Mohsen Makhmalbaf

February 3: The Hidden Half (2001), directed by Tahmineh Milani

February 10: No One Knows About Persian Cats (2009), directed by Bahman Ghobadi

February 17: The Salesman (2016), directed by Asghar Farhadi

February 24: Sound and Fury (2016), directed by Houman Seyedi

Every Sunday at 3:00PM | Rackham Amphitheatre
915 E. Washington St., Ann Arbor, MI 48109

For more information, visit https://sites.lsa.umich.edu/iranian-studies/filmfest

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Film Screening Mon, 14 Jan 2019 13:13:59 -0500 2019-02-03T15:00:00-05:00 2019-02-03T17:00:00-05:00 Rackham Graduate School (Horace H.) Department of Middle East Studies Film Screening Film Festival Poster
CJS Icons of Anime Film Series | Hunter x Hunter: The Last Mission (February 6, 2019 7:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/60328 60328-14864270@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, February 6, 2019 7:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Center for Japanese Studies

The Battle Olympia tournament at Heaven’s Arena is about to begin! Gon, Killua, Kurapika and Leorio plan on watching the matches along with the other Hunters and VIPs in attendance. As they wait, a raid by the Shadow ends the festivities. Skilled fighters fall one by one to their terrifying ability called On, a dark power derived from malice. When their leader Jed captures Netero and declares death to all Hunters in the name of vengeance, Gon and Killua rush to defeat him!

More details here: https://www.imdb.com/title/tt3198698/?ref_=fn_al_tt_1

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Film Screening Thu, 24 Jan 2019 08:38:18 -0500 2019-02-06T19:00:00-05:00 2019-02-06T21:00:00-05:00 Off Campus Location Center for Japanese Studies Film Screening Hunter x Hunter: The Last Mission
Movie Night! English majors, minors and subcons (February 6, 2019 7:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/59796 59796-14910393@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, February 6, 2019 7:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Department of English Language and Literature

English majors, minors and subcons, please join us for a screening of the movie Selma and enjoy Insomnia Cookies and popcorn!

Selma is a 2014 historical drama film directed by Ava DuVernay and written by Paul Webb. It is based on the 1965 Selma to Montgomery voting rights marches led by James Bevel, Hosea Williams, Martin Luther King, Jr., and John Lewis.

Selma had four Golden Globe Award nominations, including Best Motion Picture – Drama, Best Director and Best Actor and won for Best Original Song. It was also nominated for Best Picture and won Best Original Song at the 87th Academy Awards.

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Film Screening Tue, 29 Jan 2019 13:29:24 -0500 2019-02-06T19:00:00-05:00 2019-02-06T21:00:00-05:00 Off Campus Location Department of English Language and Literature Film Screening UG Movie Night 2019
LRCCS and the CHOP Film Series present: The Search for General Tso (February 7, 2019 4:30pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/60409 60409-14875269@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, February 7, 2019 4:30pm
Location: Shapiro Library
Organized By: Lieberthal-Rogel Center for Chinese Studies

In time for the Chinese New Year, this feature documentary engages our culinary senses by exploring an iconic sweet, spicy and savory dish--General Tso's Chicken. The film will be moderated by Miranda Brown, U-M Professor of Chinese Studies, who is a historian of pre-modern China and currently pre-occupied with food and medicine. Miranda Brown@ Dong_Muda

Audience participants will be offered surprise tastings.

CHOP (China Ongoing Perspectives) is a new movie/discussion series which provides selected documentary films that view greater China through the lens of overseas Chinese, immigrants and travellers' experiences--those slices of reality touching on transitional/transcultural events and memories.

Comments and inquiries can be sent to chopfilmseries@umich.edu.U-M FILM SERIES co-sponsored by Asia Library and the Lieberthal-Rogel Center for Chinese Studies.

If you are a person with a disability who requires an accommodation to attend this event, please reach out to us (cstep@umich.edu) at least 2 weeks in advance of this event. Please be aware that advance notice is necessary as some accommodations may require more time for the university to arrange.

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Film Screening Tue, 29 Jan 2019 10:43:54 -0500 2019-02-07T16:30:00-05:00 2019-02-07T18:30:00-05:00 Shapiro Library Lieberthal-Rogel Center for Chinese Studies Film Screening This is the inaugural event of the CHOP series--stay tuned for the exciting line up of movies and discussants!
ASP Film Screening: The Color of Pomegranates (February 7, 2019 7:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/57958 57958-14381736@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, February 7, 2019 7:00pm
Location: Rackham Graduate School (Horace H.)
Organized By: Center for Armenian Studies

"Pretty much unlike anything in cinema history." - Martin Scorsese

An undisputed masterpiece of World Cinema and Armenian cinema, this enigmatic film recreates, with its own composition of images and sounds, the dreamlike world of Sayat-Nova, a multilingual poet at the early modern Georgian court.

This showing presents the long-lost "original" cut of the film, recovered from Soviet censorship, and remastered and restored for a singular viewing experience.

Join Dr. Marie-Aude Baronian (film scholar) and Dr. Michael Pifer (Middle East Studies, U-M), who will briefly introduce the film, and serve as your guides to this filmic artwork during a short discussion at its end.

English subtitles available.

Free and open to the public.

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Cosponsored by the Multidisciplinary Workshop for Armenian Studies

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Film Screening Thu, 24 Jan 2019 13:56:42 -0500 2019-02-07T19:00:00-05:00 2019-02-07T20:30:00-05:00 Rackham Graduate School (Horace H.) Center for Armenian Studies Film Screening A breathtaking fusion of poetry, ethnography, and cinema, Sergei Parajanov’s masterwork overflows with unforgettable images and sounds. In a series of tableaux that blend the tactile with the abstract, The Color of Pomegranates revives the splendors of Armenian culture through the story of the eighteenth-century troubadour Sayat-Nova, charting his intellectual, artistic, and spiritual growth through iconographic compositions rather than traditional narrative. The film’s tapestry of folklore and metaphor departed from the realism that dominated the Soviet cinema of its era, leading authorities to block its distribution, with rare underground screenings presenting it in a restructured form. This edition features the cut closest to Parajanov’s original vision, in a restoration that brings new life to one of cinema’s most enigmatic meditations on art and beauty. English subtitles available. Free and open to the public. The following text will be included on all II events unless you indi
Film. Cold War (Zimna wojna) (February 7, 2019 7:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/60635 60635-14934828@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, February 7, 2019 7:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Copernicus Center for Polish Studies

Oscar® Nominated for Best Director and Best Foreign Language Film! Written and directed by Pawel Pawlikowski (Ida, My Summer of Love) comes a passionate love story between a man and a woman who meet in the ruins of post-war Poland. With vastly different backgrounds and temperaments, they are fatefully mismatched and yet condemned to each other. Set against the background of the Cold War in 1950s Poland, Berlin, Yugoslavia, and Paris, it’s the tale of a couple separated by politics, character flaws, and unfortunate twists of fate – an impossible love story in impossible times.

Paweł Pawlikowski, director (85 min., 2018). Drama/Romance. Rated R.

Trailer: https://youtu.be/8ImvkXgGVWw

Showtimes and Tickets: http://myumi.ch/a0p9G

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Film Screening Fri, 01 Feb 2019 10:20:43 -0500 2019-02-07T19:00:00-05:00 2019-02-07T20:30:00-05:00 Off Campus Location Copernicus Center for Polish Studies Film Screening Cold War poster
Michflix & Chill at the Library! (February 7, 2019 8:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/60517 60517-14901394@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, February 7, 2019 8:00pm
Location: Hatcher Graduate Library
Organized By: University Library

Come drink hot chocolate and eat Insomnia Cookies at Michflix & Chill at the Library! We'll be watching Wes Anderson's "Isle of Dogs" and some student-made short films.

We hope to see you there!

Doors open at 7:30 pm.

See the Facebook event here: https://www.facebook.com/events/313482779278391/

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Film Screening Fri, 01 Feb 2019 21:27:55 -0500 2019-02-07T20:00:00-05:00 2019-02-07T22:00:00-05:00 Hatcher Graduate Library University Library Film Screening Michflix and Chill promotional poster
Film. Cold War (Zimna wojna) (February 7, 2019 9:20pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/60635 60635-14934829@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, February 7, 2019 9:20pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Copernicus Center for Polish Studies

Oscar® Nominated for Best Director and Best Foreign Language Film! Written and directed by Pawel Pawlikowski (Ida, My Summer of Love) comes a passionate love story between a man and a woman who meet in the ruins of post-war Poland. With vastly different backgrounds and temperaments, they are fatefully mismatched and yet condemned to each other. Set against the background of the Cold War in 1950s Poland, Berlin, Yugoslavia, and Paris, it’s the tale of a couple separated by politics, character flaws, and unfortunate twists of fate – an impossible love story in impossible times.

Paweł Pawlikowski, director (85 min., 2018). Drama/Romance. Rated R.

Trailer: https://youtu.be/8ImvkXgGVWw

Showtimes and Tickets: http://myumi.ch/a0p9G

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Film Screening Fri, 01 Feb 2019 10:20:43 -0500 2019-02-07T21:20:00-05:00 2019-02-07T23:00:00-05:00 Off Campus Location Copernicus Center for Polish Studies Film Screening Cold War poster
CSAS Film Series | Fireflies in the Abyss (February 8, 2019 6:30pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/60590 60590-14910409@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, February 8, 2019 6:30pm
Location: Weiser Hall
Organized By: Center for South Asian Studies

This documentary is part of Traveling Film South Asia 2018.

India | 2015 | 88 mins

Eleven-year-old Suraj crawls through tunnels, scratching coal from rock in a northeastern Indian boomtown. Such “ratholes” have become the sole source of income for many Nepalese migrants, whose itnerant lives intertwine in this chronicle of people living on the margins. With the loss of his mother, and an unreliable alcoholic father, Suraj is forced to become independent at a young age. Toiling in the dangerous mines with an indomitable spirit and stubborn smile, he hopes to one day beat the odds and return to school. A transportng and immersive journey fostering deep emotonal connectedness to its subjects, Firefies in the Abyss illustrates how even seemingly insurmountable obstacles can help the human spirit grow.

About the Director:
Chandrasekhar Reddy is an independent producer/director, having extensive experience in a variety of documentary formats – factual, developmental and environmental. Previous credits include flms for Natonal Geographic Asia, Discovery Asia, United Natons Development Program (UNDP), Ministry of Tourism GoI, and BBC. His short Coalboy was part of the “Why Poverty” series. Firefies in the Abyss, is his debut feature length documentary.

WINNER OF THE AWARD FOR THE BEST LONG DOCUMENTARY AT THE INTERNATIONAL DOCUMENTARY AND SHORT FILM FESTIVAL OF KERALA (IDSFFK) (2016)

WINNER OF THE AWARD FOR THE BEST FILM & THE BEST CINEMATOGRAPHY AT THE MUMBAI INTERNATIONAL FILM FESTIVAL, 2016

BALA KAILASAM MEMORIAL AWARD, CINEMA RENDEZVOUS 2016

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Film Screening Mon, 11 Feb 2019 14:36:24 -0500 2019-02-08T18:30:00-05:00 2019-02-08T20:00:00-05:00 Weiser Hall Center for South Asian Studies Film Screening Fireflies in the Abyss
Korean Cinema NOW | The Fortress / 남한산성 (February 9, 2019 1:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/58707 58707-14544813@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Saturday, February 9, 2019 1:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Nam Center for Korean Studies

2017 | 140 Minutes | Dong-hyuk Hwang

Free | Open to the public | In Korean with English subtitles

"Based on the novel Namhansanseong by Kim Hoon, The Fortress tackles the second Manchu invasion of Korea, when King Injo (Pak Hae-il) and his court took refuge in the fortress located in Namhananseong. Injo’s Joseon dynasty had long been allied with China’s Ming rulers, until the rise of that country’s Manchu Quing dynasty, with its general doggedly leading his soldiers onward to victory over Korea while awaiting the arrival of his emperor." - David Noh, Film Journal

Check out Film Journal's full review: http://www.filmjournal.com/reviews/film-review-fortress

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Film Screening Tue, 18 Dec 2018 13:37:49 -0500 2019-02-09T13:00:00-05:00 2019-02-09T15:20:00-05:00 Off Campus Location Nam Center for Korean Studies Film Screening Korean Cinema NOW | The Fortress / 남한산성
Electric Joan of Arc- The Movie (1928) (February 10, 2019 1:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/60762 60762-14963903@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Sunday, February 10, 2019 1:00pm
Location: Walgreen Drama Center
Organized By: School of Music, Theatre & Dance

Electronic soundtrack performed live by Stephen Rush (piano, synthesizer), Jeremy Edwards (drums, synthesizer), and Matias Vilaplana (electronics, live processing).

Movie contains adult themes and may not be suitable for young children.

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Film Screening Mon, 04 Feb 2019 12:15:35 -0500 2019-02-10T13:00:00-05:00 Walgreen Drama Center School of Music, Theatre & Dance Film Screening Walgreen Drama Center
2019 Iranian Film Festival of Ann Arbor (February 10, 2019 3:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/59654 59654-14777844@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Sunday, February 10, 2019 3:00pm
Location: Rackham Graduate School (Horace H.)
Organized By: Department of Middle East Studies

January 20: Tehran Has No More Pomegranates (2006), directed by Massoud Bakhshi

January 27: Marriage of the Blessed (1989), directed by Mohsen Makhmalbaf

February 3: The Hidden Half (2001), directed by Tahmineh Milani

February 10: No One Knows About Persian Cats (2009), directed by Bahman Ghobadi

February 17: The Salesman (2016), directed by Asghar Farhadi

February 24: Sound and Fury (2016), directed by Houman Seyedi

Every Sunday at 3:00PM | Rackham Amphitheatre
915 E. Washington St., Ann Arbor, MI 48109

For more information, visit https://sites.lsa.umich.edu/iranian-studies/filmfest

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Film Screening Mon, 14 Jan 2019 13:13:59 -0500 2019-02-10T15:00:00-05:00 2019-02-10T17:00:00-05:00 Rackham Graduate School (Horace H.) Department of Middle East Studies Film Screening Film Festival Poster
"The Color of Fear" Film Screening and Discussion (February 13, 2019 5:30pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/60068 60068-14917069@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, February 13, 2019 5:30pm
Location: North Quad
Organized By: Communication and Media

The Department of Communication Studies Undergraduate Fellows present a screening of "The Color of Fear," Lee Mun Wah's 1994 film featuring conversations about the state of racial and ethnic relations in the United States.

Following the screening, faculty, students from Communication Studies, and the audience will discuss the film and explore how public conversations about race and difference have evolved over the last two decades and examine the challenges we currently face.

No RSVP necessary. This event was rescheduled from January 30, 2019.

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Film Screening Wed, 30 Jan 2019 11:20:45 -0500 2019-02-13T17:30:00-05:00 2019-02-13T19:30:00-05:00 North Quad Communication and Media Film Screening Color of Fear flyer
CJS Icons of Anime Film Series | My Neighbor Totoro (February 13, 2019 7:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/60329 60329-14864271@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, February 13, 2019 7:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Center for Japanese Studies

This acclaimed animated tale by director Hayao Miyazaki follows schoolgirl Satsuke and her younger sister, Mei, as they settle into an old country house with their father and wait for their mother to recover from an illness in an area hospital. As the sisters explore their new home, they encounter and befriend playful spirits in their house and the nearby forest, most notably the massive cuddly creature known as Totoro. Presented in Japanese with English subtitles.

More details here: https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0096283/?ref_=fn_al_tt_1

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Film Screening Thu, 24 Jan 2019 08:44:13 -0500 2019-02-13T19:00:00-05:00 2019-02-13T21:00:00-05:00 Off Campus Location Center for Japanese Studies Film Screening My Neighbor Totoro
Viewing "Der Bachelor" (February 13, 2019 7:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/59685 59685-14777946@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, February 13, 2019 7:00pm
Location: North Quad
Organized By: Germanic Languages & Literatures

Get in the Valentine's Day spirit with German Club with a viewing of the German edition of "Der Bachelor". Snacks will be provided. If you have any questions, please contact Parker (pbhill@umich.edu) or Bridget (bridgloc@umich.edu)

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Film Screening Mon, 14 Jan 2019 11:28:13 -0500 2019-02-13T19:00:00-05:00 2019-02-13T20:00:00-05:00 North Quad Germanic Languages & Literatures Film Screening North Quad
Ann ArBerlinale Film Festival (February 15, 2019 7:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/60779 60779-14963959@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, February 15, 2019 7:00pm
Location: Modern Languages Building
Organized By: Germanic Languages & Literatures

A local film festival inspired by the Berlin International Film Festival (Berlinale). All screenings free and open to the public.

Friday February 15, 2019

6:45 pm Welcome and introduction

7pm The Marriage Circle
(Ernst Lubitsch, USA 1924)

9pm Sehnsucht / Longing
(Valeska Grisebach, Germany 2006)

Saturday February 16, 2019

10 am Welcome and introduction

10:15 am Angst essen seele auf Ali: Fear Eats the Soul
(Rainer Werner Fassbinder, West Germany 1974)

1 pm Welcome and introduction

1:15 Die Legende von Paul und Paula / The Legend of Paul and Paula
(Heiner Carow, DDR 1972)

3:30 pm Coming Out
(Heiner Carow, DDR 1989)

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Film Screening Mon, 04 Feb 2019 14:18:00 -0500 2019-02-15T19:00:00-05:00 2019-02-15T22:30:00-05:00 Modern Languages Building Germanic Languages & Literatures Film Screening Ann ArBerlinale Film Festival
Ann ArBerlinale Film Festival (February 16, 2019 10:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/60779 60779-14963960@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Saturday, February 16, 2019 10:00am
Location: Modern Languages Building
Organized By: Germanic Languages & Literatures

A local film festival inspired by the Berlin International Film Festival (Berlinale). All screenings free and open to the public.

Friday February 15, 2019

6:45 pm Welcome and introduction

7pm The Marriage Circle
(Ernst Lubitsch, USA 1924)

9pm Sehnsucht / Longing
(Valeska Grisebach, Germany 2006)

Saturday February 16, 2019

10 am Welcome and introduction

10:15 am Angst essen seele auf Ali: Fear Eats the Soul
(Rainer Werner Fassbinder, West Germany 1974)

1 pm Welcome and introduction

1:15 Die Legende von Paul und Paula / The Legend of Paul and Paula
(Heiner Carow, DDR 1972)

3:30 pm Coming Out
(Heiner Carow, DDR 1989)

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Film Screening Mon, 04 Feb 2019 14:18:00 -0500 2019-02-16T10:00:00-05:00 2019-02-16T17:00:00-05:00 Modern Languages Building Germanic Languages & Literatures Film Screening Ann ArBerlinale Film Festival
Korean Cinema NOW | Little Forest / 리틀 포레스트 (February 16, 2019 1:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/58724 58724-14544829@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Saturday, February 16, 2019 1:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Nam Center for Korean Studies

2018 | 104 Minutes | Soon-rye Yim

Free | Open to the public | In Korean with English subtitles

"Hae-won is a young country girl who returns to her mother's humble home following a stint in the city. She was studying to become a teacher and supporting herself by working part time at a convenience store but when she failed her exam and decided she'd had enough of city life she decided to return to her farming roots. Back home, where she lives alone after her mother suddenly vanished before her own departure (until she is given the pet dog Ogu), she cooks local dishes with local ingredients and reconnects with here two childhood friends, Jae-ha (Ryu Jun-yeol) and Eun-sook (Jin Ki-joo)." - Pierce Conran, Screen Anarchy

Check out Screen Anarchy's full review here: https://screenanarchy.com/2018/04/udine-2018-review-little-forest-will-have-you-yearning-for-the-simple-life.html

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Film Screening Mon, 17 Dec 2018 16:29:02 -0500 2019-02-16T13:00:00-05:00 2019-02-16T14:45:00-05:00 Off Campus Location Nam Center for Korean Studies Film Screening Korean Cinema NOW | Little Forest / 리틀 포레스트
2019 Iranian Film Festival of Ann Arbor (February 17, 2019 3:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/59654 59654-14777845@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Sunday, February 17, 2019 3:00pm
Location: Rackham Graduate School (Horace H.)
Organized By: Department of Middle East Studies

January 20: Tehran Has No More Pomegranates (2006), directed by Massoud Bakhshi

January 27: Marriage of the Blessed (1989), directed by Mohsen Makhmalbaf

February 3: The Hidden Half (2001), directed by Tahmineh Milani

February 10: No One Knows About Persian Cats (2009), directed by Bahman Ghobadi

February 17: The Salesman (2016), directed by Asghar Farhadi

February 24: Sound and Fury (2016), directed by Houman Seyedi

Every Sunday at 3:00PM | Rackham Amphitheatre
915 E. Washington St., Ann Arbor, MI 48109

For more information, visit https://sites.lsa.umich.edu/iranian-studies/filmfest

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Film Screening Mon, 14 Jan 2019 13:13:59 -0500 2019-02-17T15:00:00-05:00 2019-02-17T17:00:00-05:00 Rackham Graduate School (Horace H.) Department of Middle East Studies Film Screening Film Festival Poster
Black History Month: We Rise Documentary (February 18, 2019 6:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/61092 61092-15033958@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Monday, February 18, 2019 6:00pm
Location: Haven Hall
Organized By: Multi Ethnic Student Affairs - MESA

We Rise Documentary

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Film Screening Mon, 18 Feb 2019 10:19:24 -0500 2019-02-18T18:00:00-05:00 2019-02-18T21:00:00-05:00 Haven Hall Multi Ethnic Student Affairs - MESA Film Screening We Rise Flyer
Tell Them We Are Rising: The Story of Black Colleges and Universities (February 18, 2019 6:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/61330 61330-15088050@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Monday, February 18, 2019 6:00pm
Location: Haven Hall
Organized By: Department of Afroamerican and African Studies

A haven for Black intellectuals, artists and revolutionaries—and path of promise toward the American dream—Black colleges and universities have educated the architects of freedom movements and cultivated leaders in every field. They have been unapologetically Black for more than 150 years. For the first time ever, their story is told.

Directed by award-winning documentary filmmaker Stanley Nelson, Tell Them We Are Rising: The Story of Black Colleges and Universities examines the impact Historically Black Colleges and Universities (HBCUs) have had on American history, culture, and national identity. Beginning with the earliest attempts at education to today’s campuses, the 90-minute film will be screened in the DAAS Lemuel Johnson Center (5511 Haven Hall) Monday, February 19, 2018 at 6 p.m.

The project is funded with support from the National Endowment for the Humanities, the Corporation for Public Broadcasting and the Lumina Foundation.


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Film Screening Mon, 18 Feb 2019 08:44:16 -0500 2019-02-18T18:00:00-05:00 2019-02-18T20:00:00-05:00 Haven Hall Department of Afroamerican and African Studies Film Screening Haven Hall
Millis Erwachen/Milli’s Awakening (Natasha Kelly, 2018) (February 20, 2019 6:30pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/60111 60111-14838297@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, February 20, 2019 6:30pm
Location: North Quad
Organized By: Germanic Languages & Literatures

Milli's Awakening takes its name from the painting Sleeping Milli (1911), in which expressionist painter Ludwig Kirchner takes an eroticizing and exoticizing view of his Black female model. But one instance in centuries-long history of Black people in Germany, “Milli” remains silent, speaking volumes about how Black women have been reduced to anonymous objects of desire. Milli’s awakening seeks to intervene in this history, by bringing together the voices of eight Black German women of different generations. Through their artistic practices they have defined self-determined positions within white German mainstream society. Like a quilt, the film unfolds in a way reflecting the diversity and interwoven nature of these (hi)stories.

The German Film Series begins with a light dinner at 6:30 pm followed by introduction of the screening at 7:00 pm. **Screened in German with English subtitles. With Q&A in English with director Natasha Kelly following the film. Introduced by Professor Kristin Dickinson.

Co-sponsored by Alamanya, with support from the Center for European Studies and DAAS.

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Film Screening Fri, 25 Jan 2019 14:40:17 -0500 2019-02-20T18:30:00-05:00 2019-02-20T21:00:00-05:00 North Quad Germanic Languages & Literatures Film Screening Millis Erwachen
Screening and Discussion: “East Wind West Wind: Pearl Buck” (1993) (February 20, 2019 6:30pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/60874 60874-14981912@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, February 20, 2019 6:30pm
Location: Palmer Commons
Organized By: Confucius Institute at the University of Michigan

In December 1938, the Nobel Prize for Literature was awarded to an American woman for the first time. With this announcement, the 46-year old Pearl Buck vaulted into the international spotlight. East Wind West Wind follows the extraordinary life of a missionary child. Born in West Virginia at the end of the nineteenth century and raised in rural China, who became one of the 20th century’s most popular authors. Best known for her novel “The Good Earth”, Pearl Buck wrote over 100 books during her career. She was also an outspoken advocate for women’s rights, civil rights, the real of the Chinese Exclusion Act, mixed race adoption and tolerance for the mentally challenged. The final segment of the documentary sums up her extraordinary legacy.

Guest speaker: Donn Rogosin, Director

As vice president of content development for WLIW/WNET, New York, Donn Rogosin brought many programs to public television including “Classic American Cars of Cuba” and “Mariachi: Spirit of Mexico,” which was hosted by Plácido Domingo. He has also served as president and general manager of PBS stations WSWP in West Virginia and WMHT in Albany New York. He has been a commentator for National Public Radio’s “Morning Edition” and was a Jefferson Fellow at the East West Center for the University of Hawaii. He holds a Ph.D. in American Civilization from the University of Texas at Austin.

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Film Screening Wed, 06 Feb 2019 12:01:12 -0500 2019-02-20T18:30:00-05:00 2019-02-20T21:00:00-05:00 Palmer Commons Confucius Institute at the University of Michigan Film Screening Pearl Buck
CSEAS Film Screening. Thai Movie Night: Pop Aye (February 21, 2019 7:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/59975 59975-14806093@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, February 21, 2019 7:00pm
Location: North Quad
Organized By: Center for Southeast Asian Studies

On a chance encounter, a disenchanted architect bumps into his long-lost elephant on the streets of Bangkok. Excited, he takes his elephant on a journey across Thailand in search of the farm where they grew up together.

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Film Screening Mon, 04 Feb 2019 10:15:59 -0500 2019-02-21T19:00:00-05:00 2019-02-21T21:00:00-05:00 North Quad Center for Southeast Asian Studies Film Screening film_image
Black History Month: BSU x BHM Movie Night (February 23, 2019 8:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/61099 61099-15033964@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Saturday, February 23, 2019 8:00pm
Location: Trotter Multicultural Center
Organized By: Multi Ethnic Student Affairs - MESA

Movie night

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Film Screening Tue, 12 Feb 2019 10:32:46 -0500 2019-02-23T20:00:00-05:00 2019-02-23T22:00:00-05:00 Trotter Multicultural Center Multi Ethnic Student Affairs - MESA Film Screening BHM Flyer
2019 Iranian Film Festival of Ann Arbor (February 24, 2019 3:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/59654 59654-14777846@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Sunday, February 24, 2019 3:00pm
Location: Rackham Graduate School (Horace H.)
Organized By: Department of Middle East Studies

January 20: Tehran Has No More Pomegranates (2006), directed by Massoud Bakhshi

January 27: Marriage of the Blessed (1989), directed by Mohsen Makhmalbaf

February 3: The Hidden Half (2001), directed by Tahmineh Milani

February 10: No One Knows About Persian Cats (2009), directed by Bahman Ghobadi

February 17: The Salesman (2016), directed by Asghar Farhadi

February 24: Sound and Fury (2016), directed by Houman Seyedi

Every Sunday at 3:00PM | Rackham Amphitheatre
915 E. Washington St., Ann Arbor, MI 48109

For more information, visit https://sites.lsa.umich.edu/iranian-studies/filmfest

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Film Screening Mon, 14 Jan 2019 13:13:59 -0500 2019-02-24T15:00:00-05:00 2019-02-24T17:00:00-05:00 Rackham Graduate School (Horace H.) Department of Middle East Studies Film Screening Film Festival Poster
Black History Month: BOUND Screening (February 24, 2019 3:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/61100 61100-15033965@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Sunday, February 24, 2019 3:00pm
Location: Trotter Multicultural Center
Organized By: Multi Ethnic Student Affairs - MESA

BOUND Screening

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Film Screening Tue, 12 Feb 2019 10:09:25 -0500 2019-02-24T15:00:00-05:00 2019-02-24T17:00:00-05:00 Trotter Multicultural Center Multi Ethnic Student Affairs - MESA Film Screening BHM Flyer
Black History Month: Black Panther Screening (February 25, 2019 12:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/61102 61102-15034010@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Monday, February 25, 2019 12:00pm
Location: School of Social Work Building
Organized By: Multi Ethnic Student Affairs - MESA

Black Panther Screening

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Film Screening Tue, 12 Feb 2019 10:15:41 -0500 2019-02-25T12:00:00-05:00 2019-02-25T14:00:00-05:00 School of Social Work Building Multi Ethnic Student Affairs - MESA Film Screening Black Panther Flyer
CJS Icons of Anime Film Series | Cowboy Bebop: The Movie (February 27, 2019 7:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/60330 60330-14864272@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, February 27, 2019 7:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Center for Japanese Studies

Cocky Spike Spiegel and the crew of his spaceship, Bebop, an intrepid band of bounty hunters, land on Mars in the year 2071 chasing an enormous cash reward. The four-person team, also including looming cyborg Jet Black, fearless Faye Valentine and tech expert Edward, are in search of ex-military officer Vincent. The former hero has become a biological terrorist with an arsenal of devastating nano-bots that he’ll let loose on Alba City on the night before Halloween if his demands aren’t met.

More film details here: https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0275277/?ref_=fn_al_tt_1

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Film Screening Mon, 25 Feb 2019 09:09:26 -0500 2019-02-27T19:00:00-05:00 2019-02-27T21:00:00-05:00 Off Campus Location Center for Japanese Studies Film Screening Cowboy Bebop: The Movie
CSAS Film Series | Soz - A Ballad of Maladies (February 28, 2019 6:30pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/60592 60592-14910410@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, February 28, 2019 6:30pm
Location: Weiser Hall
Organized By: Center for South Asian Studies

This documentary is part of Traveling Film South Asia 2018.

India | 2016 | 85 mins

Of folk, rock and hip-hop, this documentary captures the rhythm and blues of resistance in the Kashmir valley. It is a portrait of those musicians and artists who have turned their art into weapons of resistance during periods of heightened state repression and violence in the region. As the Kashmiri satirist and poet Zareef Ahmad Zareef ponders over the credibility of his pen, a sparrow’s song of lament takes over; taking us on a journey to discover the threads of people's history of Kashmir, which has been preserved in the region's folk poetry and music for centuries. A departure from Kashmir's orientalist stereotype of a 'paradise' unfurls a transformed cultural landscape of the deeply militarized valley where spiritual ideals of Sufyana music and traditional poetry metamorphose into political lyricism of modern Hip Hop and Rock. From underground artists and rock musicians to cartoonists and performance artists, the cultural practitioners in the film evoke collective memory of their people whilst negotiating with questions of survival, resistance and freedom – all deeply embroiled in the complex conflict of Kashmir.

About the Directors:
Tushar is an independent filmmaker and film editor based in Mumbai. He has worked on numerous independent and NGO-based documentary films over the last seven years. A post-graduate in mass communication from the AJK Mass Communication Research Centre, he has also taught filmmaking at several universities besides filming and editing independent work. Sarvnik is a writer and independent filmmaker based out of the Mumbai film industry. She has worked as a screenwriter in the industry over the last seven years after completing her graduation in Mass Communication from the AJK Mass Communication Research Centre. Besides writing for films she has also authored a book titled ‘Where arrows meet’. This is the debut feature-length flm of both the filmmakers.

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Film Screening Mon, 11 Feb 2019 14:14:37 -0500 2019-02-28T18:30:00-05:00 2019-02-28T20:00:00-05:00 Weiser Hall Center for South Asian Studies Film Screening Soz - A Ballad of Maladies
Resilience: The Biology of Stress & The Science of Hope (March 7, 2019 6:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/60771 60771-14963949@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, March 7, 2019 6:00pm
Location: Rachel Upjohn Building
Organized By: Eisenberg Family Depression Center

Please join the Zero to Thrive team in the Department of Psychiatry along with the Washtenaw County Chapter of the Michigan Association for Infant Mental Health and the North Campus Early Childhood Institute for a screening of this film followed by a Q&A panel. THURSDAY MARCH 7, 2019, 6-8pm at the Rachel Upjohn Building Auditorium (4250 Plymouth Rd, Ann Arbor). Follow link below for details:

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Film Screening Tue, 19 Feb 2019 11:07:33 -0500 2019-03-07T18:00:00-05:00 2019-03-07T20:00:00-05:00 Rachel Upjohn Building Eisenberg Family Depression Center Film Screening Resilience logo
Paris to Pittsburgh (March 10, 2019 4:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/61281 61281-15065613@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Sunday, March 10, 2019 4:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Citizens Climate Lobby

From coastal cities to America’s heartland, Paris to Pittsburgh celebrates how Americans are demanding and developing real solutions in the face of climate change. And as the weather grows more deadly and destructive, they aren’t waiting on Washington to act.

Please join us for this documentary highlighting grassroots efforts to solve climate change, in the wake of U.S. withdrawal from the Paris Climate Agreement. We will follow the film with a discussion on carbon pricing and other climate solutions.

Refreshments served! Free!

Hosted by Washtenaw Climate Reality and Ann Arbor Citizens' Climate Lobby

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Film Screening Fri, 15 Feb 2019 21:18:25 -0500 2019-03-10T16:00:00-04:00 2019-03-10T18:00:00-04:00 Off Campus Location Citizens Climate Lobby Film Screening Event flyer
CSAS Film Series | Is it too much to ask? (March 11, 2019 6:30pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/60594 60594-14910412@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Monday, March 11, 2019 6:30pm
Location: Weiser Hall
Organized By: Center for South Asian Studies

This documentary is part of Traveling Film South Asia 2018.

India | 2017 | 30 mins

The film follows the journey of two friends, Smile and Glady, looking for a rental apartment in Chennai and the obstacles and social stigma they encounter in the process for being single and for being transgender women. Their identity renders them vulnerable before the caste ridden, feudal and patriarchal landlords of the city who, by denying them their apartments, deny their existence too. But Smile and Glady face every day as it comes with grace, humor and positivity, turning their anger and frustrations into songs, dances, plays and works of art that supply them with the hope to live.

About the Director:
Leena Manimekalai is a multple award winning flm-maker with ttles like Goddesses (2008), Sengadal (2011), White Van Stories (2015).

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Film Screening Mon, 11 Feb 2019 14:15:00 -0500 2019-03-11T18:30:00-04:00 2019-03-11T19:00:00-04:00 Weiser Hall Center for South Asian Studies Film Screening Is it too much to ask?
CJS Icons of Anime Film Series | Ghost in the Shell (March 13, 2019 7:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/61849 61849-15221597@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, March 13, 2019 7:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Center for Japanese Studies

It is the year 2029. Technology has advanced so far that cyborgs are commonplace. In addition, human brains can connect to the internet directly. Major Motoko Kasunagi is an officer in Section 9, an elite, secretive police division that deals with special operations, including counter terrorism and cyber crime. She is currently on the trail of the Puppet Master, a cyber criminal who hacks into the brains of cyborgs in order to obtain information and to commit other crimes. Presented in Japanese with English subtitles.

More information here: https://www.imdb.com/title/tt1219827/

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Film Screening Tue, 05 Mar 2019 10:44:29 -0500 2019-03-13T19:00:00-04:00 2019-03-13T21:00:00-04:00 Off Campus Location Center for Japanese Studies Film Screening CJS Icons of Anime Film Series | Ghost in the Shell
Korean Cinema NOW | After My Death / 죄많은 소녀 (March 16, 2019 1:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/58741 58741-14551047@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Saturday, March 16, 2019 1:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Nam Center for Korean Studies

2017 | 131 Minutes | Euiseok Kim

Free | Open to the public | In Korean with English subtitles

"A high school girl dies one night and the next day the police descend on her school to investigate. It seems like a clear cut case of suicide, but several questions arise about the motives for this high-performing student's deadly act. The classmate who was last seen with her is suspected of egging her on and she becomes a target of ruthless bullying within the school. Meanwhile, the girl's grieving mother is desperate for answers, while the school is doing everything it can to save face and move on." - Pierce Conran, Screen Anarchy

Check out ScreenAnarchy's full review: https://screenanarchy.com/2017/10/busan-2017-review-after-my-death-breathlessly-ponders-high-school-suicide.html

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Film Screening Tue, 18 Dec 2018 08:20:18 -0500 2019-03-16T13:00:00-04:00 2019-03-16T15:15:00-04:00 Off Campus Location Nam Center for Korean Studies Film Screening After My Death / 죄많은 소녀
​Film Screening: The Living Stone (March 16, 2019 2:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/59514 59514-14748073@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Saturday, March 16, 2019 2:00pm
Location: Museum of Art
Organized By: University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA)

The film The Living Stone is a 1958 Academy Award winning documentary film showcasing stone carving: visitors can watch the creation of a work depicting Sedna, the sea goddess on view in the UMMA exhibition The Power Family Program for Inuit Art: Tillirnanngittuq​.

This event is in conjunction with the Power Family Program in Inuit Art, established in 2018 through the generosity of Philip and Kathy Power.

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Film Screening Wed, 06 Mar 2019 18:16:23 -0500 2019-03-16T14:00:00-04:00 2019-03-16T15:00:00-04:00 Museum of Art University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA) Film Screening Museum of Art
Film Screening & Moderated Discussion: The Bleeding Edge (March 18, 2019 7:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/61841 61841-15215056@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Monday, March 18, 2019 7:00pm
Location: Palmer Commons
Organized By: UMMS Office of Regulatory Affairs

In THE BLEEDING EDGE, Academy Award nominated filmmakers Kirby Dick and Amy Ziering (THE INVISIBLE WAR, THE HUNTING GROUND) turn their sights on the $400 billion medical device industry, examining lax regulations, corporate cover-ups, and profit driven incentives that put patients at risk daily. Weaving emotionally powerful stories of people whose lives have been irrevocably harmed, the film asks: what life-saving technologies may actually be killing us?

The film screening will be followed by a panel discussion.

Moderator: Raymond De Vries, PhD

Panelists:
Barry Belmont, Biomedical Engineering
Jeanne Wright, MICHR
Laura Cabrera, Center for Ethics & Humanities in the Life Sciences, MSU

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Film Screening Mon, 04 Mar 2019 15:59:06 -0500 2019-03-18T19:00:00-04:00 2019-03-18T21:30:00-04:00 Palmer Commons UMMS Office of Regulatory Affairs Film Screening The Bleeding Edge Event Poster
African Women Film Series - L’Arbre sans Fruit (Fruitless Tree) Film Screening (March 19, 2019 6:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/60152 60152-14840468@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, March 19, 2019 6:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: CEW+

The University of Michigan’s CEW+, Department of Afroamerican and African Studies, and African Studies Center are pleased to present the 2018-2019 African Women Film Series. These exciting films celebrate women’s voices through rich, dynamic, and intimate visual portrayals.

Please join for the following screenings:

March 19, 2019, at 6 pm: L’Arbre sans Fruit (Fruitless Tree) by Aïcha El Hadj Macky

April 3, 2019, at 6 pm: Notre Étrangère (The Place in Between) by Sarah Bourain

All films will screen in the Michigan Theater Screening Room at 603 E. Liberty St. Ann Arbor, MI 48104.

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Film Screening Mon, 21 Jan 2019 15:23:54 -0500 2019-03-19T18:00:00-04:00 2019-03-19T20:00:00-04:00 Off Campus Location CEW+ Film Screening Film series flyer
Die Parallelstraße / The Parallel Street (Ferdinand Khittl, 1962) (March 20, 2019 6:30pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/60112 60112-14838298@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, March 20, 2019 6:30pm
Location: North Quad
Organized By: Germanic Languages & Literatures

This experimental film from 1962 premiered the same year that 26 young German filmmakers, including Ferdinand Khittl, declared “papa’s cinema” dead. The Parallel Street is philosophical meditation on the nature of film making and an early iteration of what would come to be known as the New German Cinema.

The German Film Series begins with a light dinner at 6:30 pm followed by introduction of the screening at 7:00 pm. **Screened in German with English subtitles. Introduced by Lecturer Megan Ewing.

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Film Screening Mon, 18 Mar 2019 16:17:18 -0400 2019-03-20T18:30:00-04:00 2019-03-20T21:00:00-04:00 North Quad Germanic Languages & Literatures Film Screening german-film-series-poster W19
CJS Icons of Anime Film Series | Kiki's Delivery Service (March 20, 2019 7:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/61852 61852-15221598@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, March 20, 2019 7:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Center for Japanese Studies

Directed by Hayao Miyazaki. In this anime feature, 13-year-old Kiki moves to a seaside town with her talking cat, Jiji, to spend a year alone, in accordance with her village's tradition for witches in training. After learning to control her broomstick, Kiki sets up a flying courier service and soon becomes a fixture in the community. But when the insecure young witch begins questioning herself and loses her magic abilities, she must overcome her self-doubt to get her powers back. Presented in Japanese with English subtitles.

More about the film here: https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0097814/

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Film Screening Tue, 05 Mar 2019 10:55:54 -0500 2019-03-20T19:00:00-04:00 2019-03-20T21:00:00-04:00 Off Campus Location Center for Japanese Studies Film Screening CJS Icons of Anime Film Series | Kiki's Delivery Service
"Beyond Fordlandia: An Environmental Account of Henry Ford's Aventures in the Amazon" (March 22, 2019 4:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/62051 62051-15282556@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, March 22, 2019 4:00pm
Location: East Quadrangle
Organized By: Residential College

Written, directed and produced by Marcos Colón, Beyond Fordlândia (2017, 75 min) presents an environmental account of Henry Ford’s Amazon experience decades after its failure. The story addressed by the film begins in 1927, when the Ford Motor Company attempted to establish rubber plantations on the Tapajós River, a primary tributary of the Amazon. This film addresses the recent transition from failed rubber to successful soybean cultivation for export, and its implication for land usage.

Winner of several awards, including:
>> "Best-Awareness Raising Documentary," World Wildlife Fund, International Environmental Film Festival [FICMA-Barcelona], November 2017.
>> "Best Feature Documentary," Cabo Verde International Film Festival, October 2017.
>>"Award of Excellence, Documentary Feature," Impact DOCS Awards, July 2017.

MARCOS COLÓN is a dissertator in the Department of Spanish and Portuguese and a Graduate Student Associate of the Center for Culture, History, and Environment (CHE) of UW-Madison’s Nelson Institute for Environmental Studies. His research focuses on the representation of the Amazon in 20th-Century Brazilian literature from an environmental studies perspective. In particular, he is examining a variety of viewpoints from the post-rubber era Amazon through written texts, oral reports, and films; observing changes in the region, its nature and its people.

"Beyond Fordlandia" will be shown at 4pm. Discussion with filmmaker Marcos Colón will follow.
Refreshments will be served.

Presented by RC faculty member, Jane Lynch, and the Residential College Program in Social Theory and Practice.

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Film Screening Thu, 14 Mar 2019 16:49:46 -0400 2019-03-22T16:00:00-04:00 2019-03-22T18:00:00-04:00 East Quadrangle Residential College Film Screening Fordlandia
CSEAS Film Series. “Yanan,” a film by Mae Caralde. Film screening followed by a Q&A with the filmmaker. (March 22, 2019 6:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/59601 59601-14754554@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, March 22, 2019 6:00pm
Location: Weiser Hall
Organized By: Center for Southeast Asian Studies

Ka Yanan, a member of the Philippine revolutionary movement, died during an encounter with government troops in 2012, and is survived by a son and two daughters. The film shows how the revolutionary’s children, grown into young adulthood, cope with their grief and pay homage to their departed mother. As they ponder their memories of Ka Yanan and the cause to which she pledged her life, they find among her possessions poems, letters, and recordings. Kept away for 15 years, the materials reveal aspects of Ka Yanan’s personal and political struggles that her children had previously not fully grasped.

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Film Screening Fri, 11 Jan 2019 13:22:03 -0500 2019-03-22T18:00:00-04:00 2019-03-22T19:30:00-04:00 Weiser Hall Center for Southeast Asian Studies Film Screening event_image
Korean Cinema NOW | I Can Speak / 아이 캔 스피크 (March 23, 2019 1:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/58743 58743-14551050@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Saturday, March 23, 2019 1:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Nam Center for Korean Studies

2017 | 119 Minutes | Hyeon-Seok Kim

Free | Open to the public | In Korean with English subtitles

"Min-jae, a fastidious young civil servant, takes on a new post, eager to impress in his new district while he takes care of his younger brother at home. Little does he expect that he will end up locking horns with the elderly Ok-boon, who terrorizes the office with innumerable complaints on a daily basis. However, before the rivalry gets the best of either of them, Ok-boon discovers that Min-jae is a great English speaker, and since she desperately wishes to reconnect with her long-lost brother in America, she makes him a proposition: a moratorium on abusing the office's resources in exchange for English lessons. Before long the two grow close until some long-buried secrets make a very public return to the surface." - Pierce Conran, Screen Anarchy

Check out ScreenAnarchy's full review: https://screenanarchy.com/2017/10/review-i-can-speak-should-keep-it-down.html

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Film Screening Tue, 18 Dec 2018 08:23:46 -0500 2019-03-23T13:00:00-04:00 2019-03-23T15:00:00-04:00 Off Campus Location Nam Center for Korean Studies Film Screening I Can Speak / 아이 캔 스피크
Short films: "Chernobyl Heart" and "White Horse" (March 24, 2019 5:30pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/62116 62116-15293429@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Sunday, March 24, 2019 5:30pm
Location: East Quadrangle
Organized By: Residential College

Join us for a free double feature screening of "Chernobyl Heart" and "White Horse", followed by a Q&A with filmmaker Maryann De Leo and Residential College and Slavic Languages and Literatures professor Herb Eagle.

Maryann De Leo is an American director and producer. She has been working in documentary
filmmaking for over twenty years. Her work addresses timely issues under the umbrella of social justice, such as gender-based violence (Rape: Cries from the Heartland, 1991 and Terror at Home, 2005), mental illness (Bellevue: Inside Out, 2001), and urban blight (High on Crack Street: Lost Lives in Lowell, 1995). De Leo has received numerous awards, including an Academy Award for Chernobyl Heart, 2003.

Chernobyl Heart (39 min.) is an Oscar-winning documentary about the effects of radiation on the children of Belarus, 16 years after the accident at the nuclear reactor at Chernobyl. The film begins with the journey into the exclusion zone, driving to the Chernobyl nuclear power plant, and follows the invisible trail of radiation to the country's hospitals, cancer centers, orphanages, and mental asylums, where the children live, or are being treated for their disease.

White Horse (17 min.) is a short documentary by filmmakers Maryann De Leo and Christophe Bisson that features a man (Maxym Surkov) returning to his Ukraine home for the first time in twenty years. Evacuated from the city of Pripyat, Ukraine in 1986 due to the Chernobyl disaster, he has not returned since then. White Horse was nominated for a Golden Bear in the 2008 Berlinale.

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Film Screening Fri, 15 Mar 2019 11:02:36 -0400 2019-03-24T17:30:00-04:00 2019-03-24T19:30:00-04:00 East Quadrangle Residential College Film Screening Chernobyl
WoMan: Gender Expression & Race (March 25, 2019 5:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/61436 61436-15099360@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Monday, March 25, 2019 5:00pm
Location: School of Social Work Building
Organized By: Institute for Research on Women and Gender

Join us for an open dialogue about Masculine of Center (MoC) lesbians and how gender impacts our experience, wellbeing, and relationships. There will first be a screening of the new documentary "WoMan," followed by a conversation with film creator Sharron Fincher, producer Kate Opalewski, and participant and hip-hop emcee Miz Korona. The panelists will discuss the documentary and engage the audience in a dialogue about the gender binary and the challenges it creates.

SPEAKERS:
Sharron Fincher, documentary creator & director
Kate Opalewski, producer
Miz Korona, film participant and hip-hop emcee

This is event is co-sponsored by the School of Social Work Office of Diversity, Equity and Inclusion and TBLG Matters, the Institute for Research on Women & Gender (IRWG), and the Initiative on Gender Based Violence and Sexual Harassment at IRWG.

Refreshments will be served.
Please RSVP: http://archive.ssw.umich.edu/forms/rsvp/index.html?eventID=E3557

LINK TO LIVESTREAM THE EVENT: https://bluejeans.com/725920477
*Use the CHAT feature to pose questions during the Q&A or for technical assistance.*

TO WATCH THE FILM: PLEASE FOLLOW THE LINK TO THE YOUTUBE VIDEO: https://youtu.be/RX6R_jSelRY

After the film, please re-join the livestream (https://bluejeans.com/725920477) to view the panel discussion.

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Film Screening Thu, 21 Mar 2019 09:56:35 -0400 2019-03-25T17:00:00-04:00 2019-03-25T19:00:00-04:00 School of Social Work Building Institute for Research on Women and Gender Film Screening text "WoMan: Gender Expression Race" on black background
Veg Week Presents: Bee Friedlander and Peaceable Kingdom Film (March 26, 2019 5:30pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/62392 62392-15361882@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, March 26, 2019 5:30pm
Location: Dana Natural Resources Building
Organized By: Michigan Animal Respect Society (MARS)

Bee Friedlander from Attorneys for Animals and Animals & Society Institute will be talking about improving human-animal relationships and the ethics of veganism. A screening of "Peaceable Kingdom" brought to you by Veg Michigan and FREE vegan Silvio's pizza will follow. There will also be a virtual reality activity after the film.Try amazing food, learn about ways to improve your health, help the planet, and save animals! Meet new friends, find out ways to get involved on campus or in your community, join a movement, and get inspired!

All events are FREE and open to the community!

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Film Screening Thu, 21 Mar 2019 10:24:53 -0400 2019-03-26T17:30:00-04:00 2019-03-26T20:00:00-04:00 Dana Natural Resources Building Michigan Animal Respect Society (MARS) Film Screening Event Image
LRCCS Distinguished Speaker Series | Film Screening of "Secret Love in Peach Blossom Land" An Lian Tao Hua Yuan 暗戀桃花源 (March 26, 2019 7:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/61759 61759-15179569@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, March 26, 2019 7:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Lieberthal-Rogel Center for Chinese Studies

103 mins Chinese with English Subtitles 1992

CHOP is a U-M Film Series co-sponsored by the Asia Library and the Lieberthal-Rogel Center for Chinese Studies (LRCCS)

Trapped at the same theater, two drama troupes had to share the stage rehearsing two seemingly different plays simultaneously, a medieval comedy and a contemporary sad love story. What overlap may happen? Directed by Stan Lai, this movie is adapted from his acclaimed play of the same title.

Special Guest: STAN LAI賴聲川
Q&A with Director Lai following the film.
Feel free to send questions in advance to chopfilmseries@umich.edu.

Free and open to the public (reception preceding the film).

Stan Lai, one of the most acclaimed playwrights/directors in Asia, is the LRRCS Distinguished Visitor for Spring 2019 and will be conducting a week of workshops and public events March 25-29. His works include over 30 original plays as well feature films and operas. He has received Taiwan’s highest award for the arts, the National Arts Award, an unprecedented two times (1988, 2001). In 2007, Lai received the prestigious Taipei Cultural Award, and was elected in Beijing to the Chinese Theatre Hall of Fame. In the early 1980s he started the Performance Workshop in Taipei with his wife, Ding Nai-chu; in 2013 he cofounded the Wuzhen Theatre Festival, an international gathering held in Zhejiang Province each October. Director Lai holds a doctorate degree in Dramatic Art from the University of California, Berkeley and has taught extensively at the Taipei National University of the Arts and at UC Berkeley and Stanford University.

Please see also our March 28 event: LRCCS Distinguished Speaker Series | Reconfiguring the Box — Stan Lai on Creativity. More information at https://events.umich.edu/event/61812

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Film Screening Mon, 04 Mar 2019 08:48:39 -0500 2019-03-26T19:00:00-04:00 2019-03-26T21:00:00-04:00 Off Campus Location Lieberthal-Rogel Center for Chinese Studies Film Screening Stan Lai, Playwright and Director, LRCCS Distinguished Speaker
Film Screening: REUSE! Because You Can't Recycle The Planet (March 27, 2019 7:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/62057 62057-15282564@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, March 27, 2019 7:00pm
Location: Dana Building
Organized By: Graham Sustainability Institute

On March 27 from 7 - 9 pm in Dana 1040, the Planet Blue Ambassador program will be hosting a screening of the film REUSE! Because You Can't Recycle The Planet. The film follows Reuse Pro Alex Eaves' cross-country adventure to the 48 contiguous U.S. states. On his journey, he finds endless reuse solutions for our waste problem that are not only sustainable, but also easy and fun! There will be a Q & A session with Alex Eaves’ following the hour-long film, and the Dana Compost Crew will be holding a clothing swap as part of the event as well!

Sponsors Include: Planet Blue, Planet Blue Ambassadors, the Office of Campus Sustainability, the Student Sustainability, Initiative, and the Dana Building Compost Crew.

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Film Screening Tue, 12 Mar 2019 11:49:21 -0400 2019-03-27T19:00:00-04:00 2019-03-27T21:00:00-04:00 Dana Building Graham Sustainability Institute Film Screening Reuse! Film Screening Poster
International Movie Night: The Golden Era (March 27, 2019 7:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/62298 62298-15346452@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, March 27, 2019 7:00pm
Location: Rackham Graduate School (Horace H.)
Organized By: Rackham Graduate School

The International Center Student Council, Graduate Rackham International and the Center for Campus Involvement are excited to host an international movie night! This year we have selected a Chinese film, The Golden Era, to showcase the variety of film makers from around the globe.
Pre-registration is requested at https://sessions.studentlife.umich.edu/track/event/session/14749.

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Film Screening Tue, 19 Mar 2019 12:16:26 -0400 2019-03-27T19:00:00-04:00 2019-03-27T21:00:00-04:00 Rackham Graduate School (Horace H.) Rackham Graduate School Film Screening Rackham Graduate School (Horace H.)
Film. Deochiul (March 27, 2019 7:15pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/61772 61772-15179581@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, March 27, 2019 7:15pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Weiser Center for Europe and Eurasia

WCEE is proud to be the Education Partner for the film "Deochiul," directed by Leonore Kasper (15 min., 2018), at the 57th Ann Arbor Film Festival.

A TV team visits the camp of a Roma community in Bucharest that was recently evicted and is protesting. During the interview, the protesters start questioning the motivations of the reporting team and claim their right to tell their version of the story. The film is based on the story and experiences of the evicted people from Strada Vulturilor 50 in Bucharest.

Founded in 1963, the Ann Arbor Film Festival is internationally recognized as a premier forum showcasing the most creative and unique films of today’s preeminent moving image artists who cross boundaries, defy expectations, and experiment with concepts and techniques. The six-day festival presents 40 programs with more than 200 films from over 20 countries of all lengths and genres.

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Film Screening Thu, 28 Feb 2019 15:27:34 -0500 2019-03-27T19:15:00-04:00 2019-03-27T19:30:00-04:00 Off Campus Location Weiser Center for Europe and Eurasia Film Screening Deochiul
Human Flow - Film Screening and discussion (March 28, 2019 5:45pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/60994 60994-15000023@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, March 28, 2019 5:45pm
Location: School of Nursing
Organized By: U-M School of Nursing (UMSN) - Office of Global Affairs & WHO/PAHO Collaborating Center

Human Flow Film Screening & Discussion

Over 65 million people around the world have been forced from their homes to escape famine, climate change and war in the greatest human displacement since World War II.
Human Flow, an epic film journey led by the internationally renowned artist Ai Weiwei, gives a powerful visual expression to this massive human migration.
The documentary elucidates both the staggering scale of the refugee crisis and its profoundly personal human impact.

https://www.humanflow.com/

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Film Screening Fri, 08 Feb 2019 16:28:48 -0500 2019-03-28T17:45:00-04:00 2019-03-28T20:45:00-04:00 School of Nursing U-M School of Nursing (UMSN) - Office of Global Affairs & WHO/PAHO Collaborating Center Film Screening Human Flow Film Screening Poster
CSAS Film Series | Perween Rahman: The Rebel Optimist (March 30, 2019 2:45pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/60595 60595-14910414@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Saturday, March 30, 2019 2:45pm
Location: Weiser Hall
Organized By: Center for South Asian Studies

This documentary is part of Traveling Film South Asia 2018.

"No one is safe in this city. Those who think otherwise are living in a fool's paradise", says Perween's best friend and colleague Anwar Rashid as he navigates the chaotic roads of Karachi. An architect and urban planner, Perween Rahman dedicated her life for the poor of Pakistan. She was shot dead by armed assailants on her way home in March 2013. When she joined the Karachi based Orangi Pilot Project, founded by Dr. Akhtar Hameed Khan, Orangi's lanes were full of filth and choking gutters. Back in the early 80s, the people of Orangi, most of them migrants from India and Bangladesh, were taking their own steps to improve sanitation. Dr. Khan assigned Perween the task of developing a low cost sanitation model for Orangi. Perween's pioneering work in Orangi led her on a collision course with the various mafias in the city. She surveyed the water supply to Karachi and pinpointed locations from where water is being stolen from the bulk supply lines. She mapped and documented Karachi's informal settlements to provide the poor security against land grabbers. Perween had an alternate vision for the development of Karachi. "Development doesn't come from concrete. Development is not five star hotels and mega road projects. What we need is human development."

About the Director:
Mahera Omar is a documentary filmmaker and co-founder of the Pakistan Animal Welfare Society (PAWS). She graduated from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill with a Bachelor of Arts in Biology. After a brief stint doing laboratory research on the structure of proteins at the Tufts University Department of Biochemistry, she moved back to the city by the sea, Karachi. While in college, she co-produced and directed Dispatches from the Loo, a feature film about a love triangle shot entirely in a loo. Her short film Piano premiered at the vintage 3rd Kara Film Festival. Her other short films include Makhan Toast, Time's fun when you're having files and Aik tha jin. She directed Janu Janwar, a weekly series on animals for Geo Television. Her documentary Sea Turtles was nominated for the Humane Society of the United States 22nd Genesis Award in the Brigitte Bardot International category. She's currently working on a feature length documentary about the birds of Karachi, and is on a dream journey recording qawwali and classical music across Pakistan.

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Film Screening Mon, 11 Feb 2019 14:15:19 -0500 2019-03-30T14:45:00-04:00 2019-03-30T15:45:00-04:00 Weiser Hall Center for South Asian Studies Film Screening Perween Rahman: The Rebel Optimist
Film. My Friend the Polish Girl (March 30, 2019 5:15pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/61773 61773-15179584@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Saturday, March 30, 2019 5:15pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Copernicus Center for Polish Studies

From Cannes and Telluride nominee Ewa Banaszkiewicz and Mateusz Dymek comes a fiction film that takes the form of a first-time filmmaker’s documentary. MY FRIEND THE POLISH GIRL (87 min., 2018) borrows from cinema verite and video bloggers to create a rare naturalism in style and performance. The fiction film watches as an experimental documentary told through the eyes (and lens) of amateur filmmaker Katie: an American rich kid following Alicja, an erratic unemployed Polish actress. Set in a post-Brexit-vote London, Katie’s colonising, disruptive presence in Alicja’s life mirrors the treatment of migrants in the UK: welcomed, used, then discarded. A raw, sexual, and visually brash film exploring the abusive power and control over someone’s intimacy. Directed by Ewa Banaszkiewicz.

Founded in 1963, the Ann Arbor Film Festival is internationally recognized as a premier forum showcasing the most creative and unique films of today’s preeminent moving image artists who cross boundaries, defy expectations, and experiment with concepts and techniques. The six-day festival presents 40 programs with more than 200 films from over 20 countries of all lengths and genres.

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Film Screening Thu, 28 Feb 2019 15:26:18 -0500 2019-03-30T17:15:00-04:00 2019-03-30T18:45:00-04:00 Off Campus Location Copernicus Center for Polish Studies Film Screening My Friend the Polish Girl
African Women Film Series - Notre Étrangère (The Place in Between) Film Screening (April 3, 2019 6:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/60154 60154-14840469@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, April 3, 2019 6:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: CEW+

The University of Michigan’s CEW+, Department of Afroamerican and African Studies, and African Studies Center are pleased to present the 2018-19 African Women Film Series. These exciting films celebrate women’s voices through rich, dynamic, and intimate visual portrayals.

Opening Remarks:
Dr. Freida Ekotto, Professor of French, Comparative Literature & Afroamerican and African Studies, LSA

Film Screening:
“Notre Etragere / The Place In Between”

Commentary/ Q&A:
Sarah Bouyain, Writer / Director

All films will screen in the Michigan Theater Screening Room at 603 E. Liberty St. Ann Arbor, MI 48104.

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Film Screening Wed, 03 Apr 2019 10:58:55 -0400 2019-04-03T18:00:00-04:00 2019-04-03T20:00:00-04:00 Off Campus Location CEW+ Film Screening Film series flyer
CJS Icons of Anime Film Series | Tokyo Godfathers (April 3, 2019 7:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/61854 61854-15221599@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, April 3, 2019 7:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Center for Japanese Studies

Directed by Satoshi Kon. Middle-aged alcoholic Gin, teenage runaway Miyuki (Candice Moore) and former drag queen Hana are a trio of homeless people surviving as a makeshift family on the streets of Tokyo. While rummaging in the trash for food on Christmas Eve, they stumble upon an abandoned newborn baby in a trash bin. With only a handful of clues to the baby's identity, the three misfits search the streets of Tokyo for help in returning the baby to its parents. Presented in Japanese with English subtitles.

More about the film here: https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0388473/

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Film Screening Tue, 05 Mar 2019 10:55:14 -0500 2019-04-03T19:00:00-04:00 2019-04-03T21:00:00-04:00 Off Campus Location Center for Japanese Studies Film Screening CJS Icons of Anime Film Series | Tokyo Godfathers
CSAS Film Series | Lock and Key (April 4, 2019 6:30pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/60596 60596-14910416@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, April 4, 2019 6:30pm
Location: Weiser Hall
Organized By: Center for South Asian Studies

This documentary is part of Traveling Film South Asia 2018.

Five former addicts at a rehabilitation center in Punjab, India, are helping families recover from the rampant drug problem in the state. While they struggle to establish new relationships with their pasts, their partners strive to redefine the meaning of love and the labor of everyday life.

About the Director:
Shilpi Gulat is a filmmaker based out of New Delhi. Her body of work largely engages with gender, identty and oral narratives of regional communities in India. While her independent projects Dere tun Dilli (2012) and Inside Out (2010) have been screened at various festivals internationally, her film Qissa-e Parsi won her the National Film Award for the Best Ethnographic Film of 2014. She is currently pursuing her PhD in Cinema Studies from Jawaharlal Nehru University.

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Film Screening Mon, 11 Feb 2019 14:14:18 -0500 2019-04-04T18:30:00-04:00 2019-04-04T20:00:00-04:00 Weiser Hall Center for South Asian Studies Film Screening Lock and Key
CSEAS Film Screening. Thai Movie Night: Railway Sleepers (April 4, 2019 7:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/62004 62004-15273937@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, April 4, 2019 7:00pm
Location: North Quad
Organized By: Center for Southeast Asian Studies

The first railway line in Thailand was inaugurated in 1893 - a sign of progress and prosperity. Shot over eight years on every active line of the country's railway system, this extraordinary documentary offers an unprecedented immersion into the country’s past and present. While the camera mixes with the passengers as if it itself were one of them, Railway Sleepers skillfully collapses its massive trove of footage to simulate a two-day, two-night journey through the country.

Amidst this constant bustle, Railway Sleepers emerges as a contemplative portrait of this ever-shifting country as well as a fascinating illustration of the powerful economic and psychological role the railway system played in its history.

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Film Screening Mon, 11 Mar 2019 08:28:27 -0400 2019-04-04T19:00:00-04:00 2019-04-04T21:00:00-04:00 North Quad Center for Southeast Asian Studies Film Screening image
CSEAS Film Screening. Thai Movie Night: Railway Sleepers (April 4, 2019 7:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/62239 62239-15335286@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, April 4, 2019 7:00pm
Location: North Quad
Organized By: Center for Southeast Asian Studies

The first railway line in Thailand was inaugurated in 1893 - a sign of progress and prosperity. Shot over eight years on every active line of the country's railway system, this extraordinary documentary offers an unprecedented immersion into the country’s past and present. While the camera mixes with the passengers as if it itself were one of them, Railway Sleepers skillfully collapses its massive trove of footage to simulate a two-day, two-night journey through the country.

Amidst this constant bustle, Railway Sleepers emerges as a contemplative portrait of this ever-shifting country as well as a fascinating illustration of the powerful economic and psychological role the railway system played in its history.

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Film Screening Mon, 18 Mar 2019 11:12:14 -0400 2019-04-04T19:00:00-04:00 2019-04-04T21:00:00-04:00 North Quad Center for Southeast Asian Studies Film Screening image
Michflix & Chill at the Library! presents "The Princess Bride" (April 4, 2019 8:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/62257 62257-15337493@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, April 4, 2019 8:00pm
Location: Shapiro Library
Organized By: University Library

Take a break before exams! Come drink tea and eat Insomnia Cookies at Michflix & Chill at the Library! We'll be watching Rob Reiner's classic film, "The Princess Bride."

It's not inconceivable - movies are what bring us together!

We hope to see you there!

Doors open at 7:30 pm. The film will begin at 8:00 pm.

See the Facebook event here: https://www.facebook.com/events/1088044174731459/

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Film Screening Mon, 18 Mar 2019 15:04:39 -0400 2019-04-04T20:00:00-04:00 2019-04-04T21:30:00-04:00 Shapiro Library University Library Film Screening Michflix and Chill promotional poster
The Rebound (April 8, 2019 7:30pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/61824 61824-15212841@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Monday, April 8, 2019 7:30pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Services for Students with Disabilities

Free Admission! First 100 viewers receive a free small popcorn and small drink voucher!

On April 8, 2019, the University of Michigan will take part in The Rebound’s campaign to create more inclusion in society. The acclaimed film The Rebound (76 mins) offers an insider’s perspective to adapted sports and the world of disability as it follows the underdog journey of the Miami Heat Wheels wheelchair basketball team in their quest for their first NWBA National Championship. The cameras don’t stop when the players leave the court: the film follows the athletes through daily life with a disability as they reach for new heights.

The film has been an official selection at more than twenty film festivals and fifty special screenings, received numerous awards, and has been piloted successfully in schools and university research studies. Critics say, “Here is a rare breed of documentary that often uses images instead of words to tell its story.” – Miami Herald and “you’ll never think about disabilities the same way again.” – No Film School.

The purpose of this event is to foster meaningful discussion around inclusion, celebrate the power of the thriving human spirit, and introduce the growing adaptive sports programming occurring at The University of Michigan, because #itsallabouthowyourebound.

Featuring a Q&A session with Ryan Martin, moderated by Dr. Feranmi Okanlami following the film.

Sponsored by:

University of Michigan

Services for Students with Disabilities
Student Life Recreational Sports
Council for Disability Concerns
University of Michigan Adaptive & Inclusive Sports Experience
The Department of Physical Medicine & Rehabilitation
The Department of Family Medicine

along with

The Ryan Martin Foundation
NuMotion

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Film Screening Mon, 04 Mar 2019 15:00:38 -0500 2019-04-08T19:30:00-04:00 2019-04-08T22:00:00-04:00 Off Campus Location Services for Students with Disabilities Film Screening Flyer for The Rebound with two wheelchair basketball athletes reaching up to grab a basketball mid-air.
Banff Centre Mountain Film Festival (April 9, 2019 7:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/62012 62012-15273943@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, April 9, 2019 7:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Department of Recreational Sports (Rec Sports)

Explore exotic locations, stand on the highest peaks and be part of the gripping tales that make the Banff Centre Mountain Film Festival World Tour. Join Recreational Sports’ Adventure Leadership program as they host the Ann Arbor stop of this thrilling film fest at The Michigan Theater!

Doors open at 6:00pm

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Film Screening Mon, 11 Mar 2019 10:13:58 -0400 2019-04-09T19:00:00-04:00 2019-04-09T22:00:00-04:00 Off Campus Location Department of Recreational Sports (Rec Sports) Film Screening Banff Centre Mountain Film Festival
CJS Icons of Anime Film Series | Summer Wars (Sama Wozu) (April 10, 2019 7:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/62774 62774-15460210@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, April 10, 2019 7:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Center for Japanese Studies

Kenji is a teenage math prodigy recruited by his secret crush Natsuki for the ultimate summer job - passing himself off as Natsuki's boyfriend for four days during her grandmother's 90th birthday celebration. But when Kenji solves a 2,056 digit math riddle sent to his cell phone, he unwittingly breaches the security barricade protecting Oz, a globe-spanning virtual world where millions of people and governments interact through their avatars, handling everything from online shopping and traffic control to national defense and nuclear launch codes. Now a malicious AI program called the Love Machine is hijacking Oz accounts, growing exponentially more powerful and sowing chaos and destruction in its wake.

More about the film here: https://www.imdb.com/title/tt1474276/

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Film Screening Mon, 01 Apr 2019 15:21:27 -0400 2019-04-10T19:00:00-04:00 2019-04-10T21:00:00-04:00 Off Campus Location Center for Japanese Studies Film Screening Summer Wars
Screening: 2019 Stamps Senior Show (April 11, 2019 5:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/59626 59626-14756700@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, April 11, 2019 5:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Penny W Stamps School of Art & Design

The 2019 Stamps Senior Show features work in a range of media by graduating BA, BFA, and Interarts students at U-M’s Penny W. Stamps School of Art & Design. The exhibition unfolds during the month of April in sites throughout the city of Ann Arbor: the Michigan Theater, the Duderstadt Video Studio, the Art & Architecture Building, and Stamps Gallery in downtown Ann Arbor. Each space will be host to key exhibition events including film/video screenings, live performances, and opening receptions.

Exhibition Openings & Events

Wednesday, April 10
Live Performances: Duderstadt Video Studio, 2281 Bonisteel Boulevard, 7:00 pm.

Thursday, April 11
Screenings: Michigan Theater, 603 East Liberty Street, 5 - 6:30 pm.
Live Performances: Duderstadt Video Studio, 2281 Bonisteel Boulevard, 8:00 pm.

Friday, April 12
Opening Reception: Stamps Gallery, 201 S. Division Street, 4:30 - 6:30 pm.
Opening Reception: Art & Architecture Building, 2000 Bonisteel Blvd, 6 - 8 pm.
Live Performances: Duderstadt Video Studio, 2281 Bonisteel Boulevard, 8:00 pm.

The 2019 Stamps Senior Show will be on display at Stamps Gallery and the Art & Architecture Building from April 12-May 4, 2019.

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Film Screening Fri, 11 Jan 2019 18:15:31 -0500 2019-04-11T17:00:00-04:00 2019-04-11T18:30:00-04:00 Off Campus Location Penny W Stamps School of Art & Design Film Screening https://stamps.umich.edu/images/uploads/exhibitions/UndergradJuriedExhibition2019.jpg
Arab Heritage Month: Film & Discussion: Reel Bad Arabs: How Hollywood Vilifies a People (April 11, 2019 7:30pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/61386 61386-15097059@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, April 11, 2019 7:30pm
Location: North Quad
Organized By: Multi Ethnic Student Affairs - MESA

More information to come soon!

This event is a part of Arab Heritage Month which is celebrated mid-February to mid-April. For a full list of events, please visit MESA's website.

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Film Screening Wed, 27 Feb 2019 21:27:20 -0500 2019-04-11T19:30:00-04:00 2019-04-11T21:00:00-04:00 North Quad Multi Ethnic Student Affairs - MESA Film Screening Arab Heritage Month Calendar
Green Movie Series (April 12, 2019 6:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/62997 62997-15530607@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, April 12, 2019 6:00pm
Location: Duderstadt Center
Organized By: Engineering Student Government

Join the Engineering Student Government Sustainability Subcommittee for catered dinner and a movie!

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Film Screening Tue, 09 Apr 2019 23:26:54 -0400 2019-04-12T18:00:00-04:00 2019-04-12T20:00:00-04:00 Duderstadt Center Engineering Student Government Film Screening Flyer attached
Korean Cinema NOW | The Spy Gone North / 공작 (April 13, 2019 1:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/58744 58744-14551051@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Saturday, April 13, 2019 1:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Nam Center for Korean Studies

2017 | 137 Minutes | Jong-bin Yoon

Free | Open to the public | In Korean with English subtitles

"Based on the testimony of infamous South Korean spy “Black Venus,” who once infiltrated the highest ranks of North Korean leadership, Yoon Jong-bin’s “The Spy Gone North” recounts a tortuous operation that’s more fascinating and far-fetched than many fictional espionage yarns. Instead of the usual dose of action and suspense one expects of this genre, watching this dense 140-minute political drama unfold is like fumbling through a long tunnel that’s nonetheless worth it when the ray of light emerges at the end. Though nowhere near as crowd-pleasing as the recent espionage action-fantasy “Steel Rain,” this well-crafted work deserves to be seen for its thorough account of intricate workings of secret service and political skullduggery." - Maggie Lee, Variety

Check out Variety's full review: https://variety.com/2018/film/asia/the-spy-gone-north-gong-jak-review-1202808361/

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Film Screening Tue, 18 Dec 2018 08:29:47 -0500 2019-04-13T13:00:00-04:00 2019-04-13T15:20:00-04:00 Off Campus Location Nam Center for Korean Studies Film Screening The Spy Gone North / 공작
CSAS Film Series | Rasan Piya (April 15, 2019 6:30pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/60597 60597-14910417@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Monday, April 15, 2019 6:30pm
Location: Weiser Hall
Organized By: Center for South Asian Studies

This documentary is part of Traveling Film South Asia 2018.

Rasan Piya is a documentary on the life of renowned Hindustani classical vocalist, Ustad Abdul Rashid Khan, who represented the 16th generation of Miyan Tansen's lineage.

He continued not just to compose, but also to teach, travel and perform across all of India till he lived. He passed away recently, on 18th February 2016 at the age of 107 years. His story is that of an extraordinary musician, poet and teacher; of someone who has not only preserved but also added much to an ancient Indian art form; of a brave man who overcame his physical limitations to create beautiful music and inspire a whole generation of musicians and music lovers.

About the Director:
Writer, director Niharika Popli, after graduating in Engineering from University of Delhi in 2010, worked with a child NGO in Delhi, directing plays, writing, telling stories and teaching. The purity of Ustad Abdul Rashid Khan music and his zest for life inspired her to make this her first feature length documentary.

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Film Screening Mon, 11 Feb 2019 14:15:46 -0500 2019-04-15T18:30:00-04:00 2019-04-15T20:00:00-04:00 Weiser Hall Center for South Asian Studies Film Screening Rasan Piya
CJS Icons of Anime Film Series | Ninja Scroll (April 17, 2019 7:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/62015 62015-15273946@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, April 17, 2019 7:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Center for Japanese Studies

Jubei, a highly skilled ninja, is coerced into slaying his own clan of warriors. After begrudgingly killing his fellow swordsmen, he becomes a roving hired assassin. During his travels, he must face off against an organization of demonic ninjas known as the Devils of Kimon, who are plotting to take power of Japan's government. The Devils will stop at nothing, and have the power to annihilate entire villages. Now, only Jubei and a shogun spy named Dakuan can stop them. Presented in Japanese with English subtitles.

More about the film here: https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0107692

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Film Screening Mon, 11 Mar 2019 10:50:27 -0400 2019-04-17T19:00:00-04:00 2019-04-17T21:00:00-04:00 Off Campus Location Center for Japanese Studies Film Screening Jubei, a highly skilled ninja, is coerced into slaying his own clan of warriors. After begrudgingly killing his fellow swordsmen, he becomes a roving hired assassin. During his travels, he must face off against an organization of demonic ninjas known as the Devils of Kimon, who are plotting to take power of Japan's government. The Devils will stop at nothing, and have the power to annihilate entire villages. Now, only Jubei and a shogun spy named Dakuan can stop them. Presented in Japanese with English subtitles.
Arab American National Museum and CMENAS Film Screening. Wild Relatives + Talkback (April 18, 2019 7:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/55931 55931-13805100@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, April 18, 2019 7:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Center for Middle Eastern and North African Studies

Deep beneath Earth’s Arctic permafrost, seeds from all over the world are stored in the Svalbard Global Seed Vault. For the first time ever, seeds from a major gene bank in Aleppo are now being replicated in the Beqaa Valley.Wild Relatives loosely links together different narratives and biographies, opening a space to reflect on biodiversity, resilience, global justice and climate change, as well as manmade disasters and the ambivalent efforts made to overcome them.

Dir. Jumana Manna
2018/Lebanon, Norway, Germany/ 66 minutes
Arabic, Norwegian, and English with English Subtitles

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Film Screening Mon, 24 Sep 2018 17:03:21 -0400 2019-04-18T19:00:00-04:00 2019-04-18T20:30:00-04:00 Off Campus Location Center for Middle Eastern and North African Studies Film Screening film_image
CSAS Film Screening | Mard Ko Dard Nahi Hota (The Man Who Feels No Pain) (April 19, 2019 3:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/63173 63173-15585190@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, April 19, 2019 3:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Center for South Asian Studies

Mard Ko Dard Nahi Hota (The Man Who Feels No Pain) is a 2018 Indian Hindi-language action comedy film written and directed by Vasan Bala and produced by RSVP Movies. The film stars Abhimanyu Dassani, Radhika Madan, Gulshan Devaiah, Mahesh Manjrekar and Jimit Trivedi. The film premiered in the Midnight Madness section of the 2018 Toronto International Film Festival, where it won the People's Choice Award: Midnight Madness. The film's story follows a young man who has a rare condition called Congenital insensitivity to pain and strikes out on a quest to vanquish his foes. The film's producer Ankur Khanna will be in attendance and the screening will be followed by a Q n A with him.

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Film Screening Tue, 16 Apr 2019 08:38:43 -0400 2019-04-19T15:00:00-04:00 2019-04-19T18:00:00-04:00 Off Campus Location Center for South Asian Studies Film Screening Mard Ko Dard Nahi Hota (The Man Who Feels No Pain)
The 5th Biannual FTVM 236 Audiovisual Essay Festival (April 23, 2019 4:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/62979 62979-15528490@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, April 23, 2019 4:00pm
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Organized By: Department of Film, Television, and Media

Since 2016, the FTVM 236 course at the University of Michigan has used audiovisual essay assignments on as large a scale as at any other institution in the world. More than one hundred students who enrolled in FTVM 236 during the winter 2019 term created a series of audiovisual essays as part of their work for the course. This final event showcases the hard work, critical acumen, and creativity that went into their final capstone projects, in which each student made an original critical argument in audiovisual form about a selected film or television episode that was studied in the course. Winners in a number of categories will be selected by a vote of the enrolled students in attendance.
Join us for this celebration of outstanding undergraduate work!

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Film Screening Tue, 09 Apr 2019 12:31:24 -0400 2019-04-23T16:00:00-04:00 2019-04-23T17:30:00-04:00 Department of Film, Television, and Media Film Screening poster