Tuesday, September 20 at 8:00pm, Frick Fine Arts
The Gulls (2015) directed by Ella Manzheeva
Elza wishes to flee from her husband. The marriage is loveless and occasionally violent and her husband Dzhinga is a petty criminal, but Elza gets cold feet and returns to him. When Dzhinga does not return from an illegal fishing trip and is presumed dead, Elza must contend with this new, abrupt reality. Newly pregnant, she feels a powerful novel sense of freedom.
Tickets are free to Pitt students.

Double Feature: Toll Bar / Coastliners Sunday, September 21 at 8:00pm, Regent Square Theater
Toll Bar (2015) directed by Zassulan Poshanov
The first ever film from the "Partisan Movement," a manifesto in which guerrilla filmmakers aim to create social realism while rejecting conventional cinema. Toll Bar emphasizes the stark dichotomy between the haves and the have-nots in Kazakhstan. Two men residing in the same city, with the same internal ambitions, crossing paths daily at the toll bar the same parking garage are yet divided by a massive abyss.
Tickets are $5 with a student ID.