Past Events

COUNTRY: Germany
DIRECTORS: Fabiana Fragale, Kilian Kuhlendahl, Jens Mühlhoff A documentary highlighting success in the fight against climate change. The film, based on 360-camera footage by journalist Steffen Meyn, follows the struggle to save the ancient Hambach Forest from big coal's bulldozers. It begins with tragedy but culminates in triumph. The setting is an activist community thirty meters above the ground in the treetops of the Hambach Forest. Meyn documented these activists in their successful struggle against the destruction of nature over a period of two years. When he fell from a tree during a police eviction and died Meyn’s friends Fabiana Fragale, Kilian Kuhlendahl and Jens Mühlhoff took up his footage. The film is a testimony that also includes interviews with activists who talk about how the experiences in “Hambi” have left their mark. How far, they ask, does activism need to go? And how far should it go? Questions we need to ask for our future. HARRIS THEATER
809 Liberty Avenue
Pittsburgh, PA 15222
https://trustarts.org/pct_home/visit/facilities/harris-theater Faculty, staff, and students of the University of Pittsburgh may attend for free by showing a Pitt University ID at the door.

COUNTRY: Poland
DIRECTOR: Agnieszka Holland Acclaimed director Agnieszka Holland's latest documentary follows a family of Syrian refugees, an English teacher from Afghanistan, and a border guard, all converging on the Polish-Belarusian border amidst a humanitarian crisis. The film's release in Poland is said to have impacted the recent elections. This harrowing, urgent drama from the veteran Polish director Agnieszka Holland constructs an intricate account of the contemporary global humanitarian crisis, expanding out to encompass the interconnected lives of security patrol officers, activist lawyers, and civilians who put themselves on the line for strangers. With the sobering and sometimes shocking Green Border, Holland reaffirms both her unyielding commitment to political filmmaking and the ability of immersive storytelling to illuminate the darkest corners of the world. HARRIS THEATER
809 Liberty Avenue
Pittsburgh, PA 15222
https://trustarts.org/pct_home/visit/facilities/harris-theater Faculty, staff, and students of the University of Pittsburgh may attend for free by showing a Pitt University ID at the door.

COUNTRY: Italy
DIRECTORS: Orso Miyakawa and Peter Miyakawa In their debut film brothers Orso and Peter Miyakawa tell us an engaging tale about a small seaside town on the border between France and Italy. Born in Monaco and raised in Italy, the directors know this region and its class and culture differences well. The story focuses on Don, an oddball American tennis teacher who dreams of being a painter, Camilla, a college student who smuggles medicines, alcohol, and cigarettes across the border, and Brando her 14yo brother. Their lives take a turn when they meet Elvis, an undocumented immigrant trying to sneak across the border to catch up with his wife in Paris. Will the border stand against their friendship? A comedy, a drama, a human story. HARRIS THEATER
809 Liberty Avenue
Pittsburgh, PA 15222
https://trustarts.org/pct_home/visit/facilities/harris-theater Faculty, staff, and students of the University of Pittsburgh may attend for free by showing a Pitt University ID at the door.

COUNTRY: Germany
DIRECTORS: Fabiana Fragale, Kilian Kuhlendahl, Jens Mühlhoff A documentary highlighting success in the fight against climate change. The film, based on 360-camera footage by journalist Steffen Meyn, follows the struggle to save the ancient Hambach Forest from big coal's bulldozers. It begins with tragedy but culminates in triumph. The setting is an activist community thirty meters above the ground in the treetops of the Hambach Forest. Meyn documented these activists in their successful struggle against the destruction of nature over a period of two years. When he fell from a tree during a police eviction and died Meyn’s friends Fabiana Fragale, Kilian Kuhlendahl and Jens Mühlhoff took up his footage. The film is a testimony that also includes interviews with activists who talk about how the experiences in “Hambi” have left their mark. How far, they ask, does activism need to go? And how far should it go? Questions we need to ask for our future. HARRIS THEATER
809 Liberty Avenue
Pittsburgh, PA 15222
https://trustarts.org/pct_home/visit/facilities/harris-theater Faculty, staff, and students of the University of Pittsburgh may attend for free by showing a Pitt University ID at the door.

COUNTRY: France
DIRECTOR: Bruno Dumont France de Meurs, played by the amazing Léa Seydoux, is a seemingly unflappable superstar TV journalist. She is a newscasting influencer loved by all but then her career, home life, and psychological stability are shaken after she carelessly drives into a young delivery man on a busy Paris Street. The film’s biting humor takes on the state of news and the state of the state right from her first over-the-top interaction with President Emanual Macron. Her name symbolizes it all; her first name, of course, stands in for France, the country, but in a play on words, her last name suggests both home and death. Is it reality TV, ego performance, or sincere reportage? What is the role of the established media in France? Dumont’s close-ups of beautiful France, the person, and the place invite us to do a long take. HARRIS THEATER
809 Liberty Avenue
Pittsburgh, PA 15222
https://trustarts.org/pct_home/visit/facilities/harris-theater Faculty, Staff, and students of the University of Pittsburgh may attend for free by showing a Pitt University ID at the door.

Join this Hybrid Panel Discussion Event to learn more about what U.S. Feminists can learn from LGBTQ+ Activists and their resistance in Eastern Europe. Lunch will be provided for in-person attendees.

The Foreign Language & Area Studies (FLAS) Fellowship program is a prestigious and competitive federal award from the U.S. Department of Education that allows select Pitt undergraduate and graduate students to devote full time attention to their chosen modern foreign language and area studies specialty. There are separate competitions for the Academic Year FLAS Fellowship and the Summer FLAS Fellowship. Advanced doctoral students conducting field or archival research in a supported world language may also be eligible. Fellowships available to support study of Amharic, Arabic, Bosnian/Croatian/Serbian, Chinese, Czech, Farsi, French*, Irish (Gaelic), German*, Greek (Modern), Haitian Creole, Hebrew (Modern), Hindi, Hungarian, Italian, Japanese, Korean, Polish, Portuguese, Quechua, Russian, Slovak, Spanish*, Swahili, Swedish, Turkish, Ukrainian, Vietnamese, and more! *with certain restrictions Stop by to learn more! Pizza and refreshments will be served.