Film

The Battle of Algiers

Presenter: 
Dr. David Pettersen, Associate Professor of French and Film and Media Studies, University of Pittsburgh
Event Status: 
As Scheduled
Date: 
Wed, 02/08/2023 - 18:30 to 20:00

This is the first event as part of the series Race, Rebellion, and Global Solidarity. The Battle of Algiers is a 1966 Italian-Algerian war film co-written and directed by Gillo Pontecorvo. One of the most extraordinary films ever made, The Battle of Algiers is an emotionally devastating account of the anticolonial struggle of the Algerian people and a brutally candid exposé of the French colonial mindset.

Location: 
Frick Fine Arts Auditorium
Contact Person: 
Elaine Linn
Contact Email: 
eel58@pitt.edu

Push (2019): Screening and Discussion

Event Status: 
As Scheduled
Date: 
Tue, 01/24/2023 - 18:00 to 20:00

Skyrocketing rents, unliveable cities, growing displacement— in Push (2019), director Fredrick Gertten and (now former) UN Special Rapporteur Lelani Farha take a critical look at the global housing crisis and the role of financial actors in burgeoning inequity. Gertten and Farha lead us through these challenges across geographies — and create solutions that push back against the commodification of housing. Join us for the screening and post-film critical discussion. Snacks provided!

Location: 
4130 Posvar Hall
Contact Person: 
Noor El-Dehaibi
Contact Email: 
eldehaibi@pitt.edu

Lola (Lola Vers La Mer)

Event Status: 
As Scheduled
Date: 
Tue, 01/24/2023 - 17:30

Lola, 18 years old, bleach blonde hair, lives in a foster home with Samir, her only friend. Impulsive and lonely, she is trying to get her diploma as a veterinary assistant. When her mother passes away, her father Phillip makes sure that Lola will miss the ceremony. Two years before that, Philip was throwing her out of the family home: at the time, Lola was still Lionel - Philippe is determined to fulfill Catherine's last wish: to be dispersed to the North Sea, in the dunes of her childhood home.

Location: 
Harris Theater
Cost: 
$11

An Uncertain Border (Un Confine Incerto)

Event Status: 
As Scheduled
Date: 
Thu, 01/26/2023 - 19:30

Richi (Moisé Curia) is on the road with a little girl (Anna Malfatti) in a camper van through southern Germany. They have a good time with each other, dress up, dance and laugh a lot. He is a seed salesman, she his little doll. An unusual couple, but happy? When the two stop off at a restaurant, the landlord (Heio von Stetten) becomes skeptical. Something is not right here! What's more, the girl speaks a very rare language: Ladin. Meanwhile, in Rome, police inspector Milia Demetz (Cosmina Stratan) is investigating cyberspace and is hot on the heels of a pedophile network.

Location: 
Harris Theater
Cost: 
$11

An Uncertain Border (Un Confine Incerto)

Event Status: 
As Scheduled
Date: 
Sun, 01/22/2023 - 19:30

Richi (Moisé Curia) is on the road with a little girl (Anna Malfatti) in a camper van through southern Germany. They have a good time with each other, dress up, dance and laugh a lot. He is a seed salesman, she his little doll. An unusual couple, but happy? When the two stop off at a restaurant, the landlord (Heio von Stetten) becomes skeptical. Something is not right here! What's more, the girl speaks a very rare language: Ladin. Meanwhile, in Rome, police inspector Milia Demetz (Cosmina Stratan) is investigating cyberspace and is hot on the heels of a pedophile network.

Location: 
Harris Theater
Cost: 
$11

Let There Be Light (Nech J Svetlo)

Event Status: 
As Scheduled
Date: 
Wed, 01/25/2023 - 17:30

Milan (40) has three children and does construction work in Germany in order to provide for his family in Slovakia. While visiting his home over Christmas he discovers that his eldest son Adam is a member of a para-military youth group. The boy is involved in bullying and the death of a classmate. The father has to decide what to do. In this process, along with his wife, he comes to discover the real truth about their son, their family, themselves and the community around them.

COUNTRY: Slovakia (2019)
DIRECTOR: Marko Skop

Location: 
Harris Theater
Cost: 
$11

Let There Be Light (Nech J Svetlo)

Event Status: 
As Scheduled
Date: 
Sun, 01/22/2023 - 17:30

Milan (40) has three children and does construction work in Germany in order to provide for his family in Slovakia. While visiting his home over Christmas, he discovers that his eldest son Adam is a member of a para-military youth group. The boy is involved in bullying and the death of a classmate. The father has to decide what to do. In this process, along with his wife, he comes to discover the real truth about their son, their family, themselves and the community around them.

COUNTRY: Slovakia (2019)
DIRECTOR: Marko Skop

Location: 
Harris Theater
Cost: 
$11

Schoolgirls (Las Niñas)

Event Status: 
As Scheduled
Date: 
Thu, 01/26/2023 - 17:30

A story of Celia, an 11-year-old girl who studies at a nuns' school in 1992. Celia is a good girl; she is a responsible student and a considerate daughter. The arrival of a new classmate will open a little window through which Celia will discover a whole new world. Together with her new friend and some older girls, Celia will enter a new stage of her life: adolescence, the stage of first-times. Her body needs to experiment, try new things, and stop being a little girl, even if that entails confronting her mother and everything that meant comfort and security.

Location: 
Harris Theater
Cost: 
$11

Schoolgirls (Las Niñas)

Event Status: 
As Scheduled
Date: 
Sun, 01/22/2023 - 15:30

A story of Celia, an 11-year-old girl who studies at a nuns' school in 1992. Celia is a good girl; she is a responsible student and a considerate daughter. The arrival of a new classmate will open a little window through which Celia will discover a whole new world. Together with her new friend and some older girls, Celia will enter a new stage of her life: adolescence, the stage of first-times. Her body needs to experiment, try new things, and stop being a little girl, even if that entails confronting her mother and everything that meant comfort and security.

Location: 
Harris Theater
Cost: 
$11

Rabiye Kurnaz vs. George W. Bush (Rabiye Kurnaz gegen George W. Bush)

Event Status: 
As Scheduled
Date: 
Wed, 01/25/2023 - 19:30

Desperate to help her son, Rabiye Kurnaz, a housewife and loving mother from Bremen, goes to the police, notifies authorities and almost despairs at their impotence and in the end, against all the odds, something truly remarkable happens.

COUNTRY: Germany (2022)
DIRECTOR: Andreas Dresden

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

Get Tickets Here: https://trustarts.org/production/84776

Location: 
Harris Theater
Cost: 
$11

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