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Europe's Moving Images Film Festival

Mark your calendar's for the 2025 European Union Film Festival.


January 17-23, 2025

THEATRICAL SCREENINGS:
Harris Theater (Pittsburgh Cultural Trust)
809 Liberty Avenue
Pittsburgh, PA 15206

 

 

FALL FEATURED FILMS:

 

FRIDAY, SEPTEMBER 27, 2024

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Sweet Dreams (2023) 
8:30 PM
Harris Theater, Pittsburgh, PA


 

COUNTRY:   Netherlands, Reunion, Indonesia, Spain | Indonesian, Dutch 
DIRECTOR: Ena Sendijarevic

 

CONTENT WARNING: Sexual content, Sexual violence, Disturbing imagery

Sweet Dreams is the utterly bizarre exploration of Dutch colonial rule in Indonesia and the inescapable malaise it brings to one sugar plantation deep in the jungle.When the elderly plantation owner, Jan (Hans Dagelet), dies, Jan’s apathetic widow, Agathe (Renée Soutendijk), calls for her son and his pregnant wife to take control of the plantation, only to learn that everything has been left to Karel (Rio Den Haas), a boy with a white name and a brown face. While other family members vie to take control of the dying plantation, Karel’s mother, plantation housekeeper Siti (Hayati Azis) struggles to decide what is best for her son. The fraught and violent relationships among plantation owners, spurned family members and rebellious employees as each attempt to one up the other are by turns malevolent and absurd. Despite its absurdity, the film doesn’t make light of colonialism but shows us the ways that colonial oppression can seep into every aspect of life, penetrating colonist and colonial subject alike.  

 

 

THURSDAY, OCTOBER 16, 2024

A picture containing textDescription automatically generatedBis hierhin und wie weiter?/Stick Together (2023) 
6:00 PM
4130 Posvar Hall, University of Pittsburgh 

 

COUNTRY: German 
DIRECTOR: Felix Maria Bühler

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  QUESTIONS? Email us at eufilmfest@pitt.edu or europeanstudies@pitt.edu

 

Sponsors:

European Studies Center
Asian Studies Center
University Center for International Studies
Department of German 
Department of Education
Pittsburgh Cultural Trust 

 

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