Past Events

2025 European Union Film Festival Journey to Utopia (Demark), 2020, 88 MIN Directed by Erlend E. Mo Danish language with English subtitles Feeling desperate about climate change, filmmaker Erlend, opera singer Ingeborg and their children leave their farm to join an ecological experiment: Project Permatopia. The goal is to become fully self-sufficient. But the reality is much more difficult – bordering on disastrous. Will they give up? Pitt Students/Faculty and Staff: Free Admission with a valid Pitt ID General Admission: $9.00 (Students/Seniors) and $11.00 (Regular)

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2025 European Union Film Festival Flowers of Ukraine (Ukraine/Poland), 2024, 70 MIN Ukrainian language with English subtitles ***with Director Adelina Borets and Producer Glib Lukianets present for Q&A. Goats and chickens, tomatoes and cucumbers, in the middle of the city, Natalia protects her space in the heart of Kyiv. The fight against gentrification takes on a new front with the full-scale Russian invasion of Ukraine. Polish director Adelina Borets traveled to the capital of Ukraine to follow one of the city’s most colorful characters. In her garden, Natalia raises not just vegetables but also goats and chickens. Her garden happens to be in the middle of a block of soviet style buildings in the heart of Kyiv. The 67-year-old force of a person has been fighting gentrification and investors. They want her plot to build another building. Facing pressure from the developers and also from her own neighbors, Natalia stands her ground. The confrontation takes on a whole new dimension with the full-scale Russian invasion of Ukraine. Now, the battle to protect her garden becomes a battle to preserve an entire way of life. Pitt Students/Faculty and Staff: Free Admission with a valid Pitt ID General Admission: $9.00 (Students/Seniors) and $11.00 (Regular)

2025 European Film Festival The Animal Kingdom (France), 2023, 128 MIN Directed by Thomas Cailley French language with English subtitles In The Animal Kingdom, a visionary new thriller that drops viewers into an extraordinary world where mutations in human genetics cause people to transform into hybrid creatures, François (Roman Duris) does everything he can to save his wife, who is affected by this mysterious condition. As some of the creatures disappear into a nearby forest, François embarks with Emile (Paul Kircher), their 16-year-old son, on a quest to find her with help from a local police officer (Adèle Exarchopoulos). From acclaimed director Thomas Cailley, the film world premiered as the opening night selection of Cannes Un Certain Regard. Pitt Students/Faculty and Staff: Free Admission with a valid Pitt ID General Admission: $9.00 (Students/Seniors) and $11.00 (Regular)

2025 European Union Film Festival Duty of Care, The Climate Trials (Netherlands), 2022, 57 MIN Directed by Nic Balthazar Dutch and English language with English subtitles Duty of Care tells the exclusive inside story of Roger Cox, the first and only lawyer to have successfully sued a government and an oil giant in landmark court cases that established catastrophic climate change can be made illegal. Roger’s ground-breaking cases against the Dutch government and oil major Shell established that those in power owe a duty of care to citizens to avoid catastrophic climate change, stunning legal experts and sending shock-waves through parliaments and corporate boardrooms around the world. With echoes of the lawsuits against Big Tobacco, this inspirational 55-minute documentary gives viewers a behind-the-scenes experience of the David v. Goliath battle as one Dutch property lawyer turned litigation maverick takes on powerful states and the world’s largest oil company in the courtroom drama of our lifetimes. Pitt Students/Faculty and Staff: Free Admission with a valid Pitt ID General Admission: $9.00 (Students/Seniors) and $11.00 (Regular)

2025 European Union Film Festival Journey to Utopia (Demark), 2020, 88 MIN Directed by Erlend E. Mo Danish language with English subtitles Feeling desperate about climate change, filmmaker Erlend, opera singer Ingeborg and their children leave their farm to join an ecological experiment: Project Permatopia. The goal is to become fully self-sufficient. But the reality is much more difficult – bordering on disastrous. Will they give up? Pitt Students/Faculty and Staff: Free Admission with a valid Pitt ID General Admission: $9.00 (Students/Seniors) and $11.00 (Regular)

2025 European Union Film Festival Luzzu (Malta), 2021, 94 MIN Directed by Alex Camilleri Maltese language with English subtitles Hardworking new father Jesmark, played by a real-life Maltese fisherman, must choose between the traditional way of life practiced by his family for generations and an illicit black-market fishing operation in this stunning neorealist tale operating in the tradition of Luchino Visconti, Roberto Rosselini, and the Dardenne brothers. Pitt Students/Faculty and Staff: Free Admission with a valid Pitt ID General Admission: $9.00 (Students/Seniors) and $11.00 (Regular)