An estimated 90,000 Africans were brought to Spain as slaves between the 16th-18th centuries. While their labor reinforced its economy, African cultures diffused throughout Spanish society, contributing to the development of musical genres such as Flamenco, which are hallmarks of Spanish society. Still, Africa's influence has been gradually disregarded, as the country has worked to reshape its national image; a trend that continues today in response to immigration of the 20th century.

Join us for an online screening of a critically acclaimed documentary on the Belarus protest movement by a Belarusian film director, Aliaksei Paluyan, and for a post-screening discussion with the director.
Aliaksei Paluyan's Courage
(Germany, 2021)
Thursday, March 17
2-4pm EST
online through Zoom

Register: https://pitt.zoom.us/meeting/register/tJAsce2qrDIvGdaUJwkkn_0Fn0Azm81GVd...

We are living in a time of crisis. Anxieties about the future and questions concerning the sustainability of the planet and its inhabitants have never felt more urgent. Future Tense asks how artists approach these and other global uncertainties in relationship to identity, home, and environment. Selected films highlight both the fragility and resilience of human ingenuity in relationship to nature, space, and place. Collectively, the artists included in this program direct themselves towards the future.

The University of Pittsburgh Italian program will host a discussion of the film Kufid (2020). We will be joined by the film's director, Elia Moutamid, and by critic and filmmaker Simone Brioni.

Discussion will be in English; the film is in Italian with English subtitles.

Everyone who registers will also receive a link that can be used to watch the film, streaming, whenever you wish.

This film examines a cooperative of the Brazilian Landless Movement (MST) in the South of Brazil, which struggled for access to land and then transitioned to ecological agriculture, or agroecology. This MST cooperative is demonstrating the possibility of an alternative model of flourishing rural life, which provides thriving livelihoods for farmers, produces high quality and low cost food for the region, and rehabilitates the earth.

The film is inspired by the true story of herbalist Jan Mikolasek, who dedicated his life to caring for the sick in spite of the immense obstacles he faced in his private and public life. Born at the turn of the 20th century, Mikolasek wins fame and fortune using unorthodox treatment methods to cure a wide range of diseases. Already a local institution in Czechoslovakia before World War II, the healer gains in reputation and wealth, whether during the Nazi occupation or under the Communist rule.

The last year in the life of Bettino Craxi, as told by Gianni Amelio. An undisputed protagonist of international politics and, until recently, revered in Italy, Bettino Craxi is now in Hammamet, far from his homeland. Overwhelmed by the populist surge that toppled the formerly governing democratic parties which rose to power during the first fifty years of the Italian Republic, and caught up in a series of judicial inquiries, President Craxi can no longer return to his homeland as a free man.

An international arms deal is interrupted by teenage protestors. A Swedish engineer tries to prevent his activist daughter from embarassing him at work and ruining Sweden's relations with Turkey. A virtual Q&A with Simon Elvås will take place at 11:00 a.m. EST on February 1st. To pre-order free tickets and to watch click watch.eventive.org/pgheufilmfest/play/61e423d0a29e7b00537813b0.

COUNTRY: Sweden (2021)
DIRECTOR: Simon Elvås, MEET EU Emerging Filmmaker in Residence

Corpus Christi is the story of 20-year-old Daniel who experiences a spiritual transformation while living in a youth detention centre. He wants to become a priest but this is impossible because of his criminal record. When he is sent to work at a carpenter’s workshop in a small town, on arrival he dresses up as a priest and accidentally takes over the local parish. The arrival of the young, charismatic preacher is an opportunity for the local community to begin the healing process after a tragedy that happened there.

Directed by Jan Komasa

Three decades after making his first film about the region, one of the pivotal East German documentarians returns to the borderlands where the outer limits of Poland, Germany, and the Czech Republic intersect. Voigt once again encounters a people with a porous cultural identity, where family histories are intertwined with an array of dialects and legacies.

Directed by Andreas Voigt

Germany | German language with English subtitles | DCP

Get Tickets: https://trustarts.org/production/78065