Miriam, a biracial teen in the Dominican Republic, prepares anxiously for a double quinceañera with her best friend, Jennifer. She has started talking to a new boy online, Jean-Louis, and while they've never met before, she plans to invite him to her quince. But Miriam panics when she discovers her new boyfriend is black. The film explores identity, racism, whitewashing, and teenage friendship and affection.

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This striking documentary, written and directed by Argentine artist Martín Weber, takes us all over Latin America, from Argentina, to Peru, Nicaragua, Cuba, Brazil, Colombia, Guatemala, and to Mexico. From 1992 to 2013, Weber photographed various people throughout Latin America, asking them to write their dreams on a chalkboard. Years later, he wondered if those dreams had been fulfilled. This film documents his journey over 8 years to find the same people and to give testimony to their dreams and lives.

The HT94 Pitt team, along with the Global Studies Center and the Pitt Global Hub present a free screening of "Border South" (available in both Spanish and English) for 24 hours on September 24-25 (4PM ET-4PM ET).

Perro Bomba is the story of how Steevens, a young Haitian immigrant living in Santiago de Chile, has his relatively stable life upended when his childhood friend, Junior, arrives in Chile and is looking for help settling into the city. Steevens does everything he can to help Junior, including getting him a job at the construction company he works for. An incident at work causes racial tensions to erupt and Steevens loses his job. Now without a job, Steevens is forced to leave his home and is left wandering the city, looking for a chance to restart his life.

Join us for our final film in our Hirokazu Koreeda virtual film series, "Shoplifters," with special lecture by Dr. Linda C. Ehrlich (author of "The Films of Koreeda Hirokazu: An Elemental Cinema"), and post-screening Q & A. To register, click here

Join us for the second film of our Hirokazu Koreeda series, "The Truth," with an introduction by Dr. Charles Exley and post-screening Q & A. To register, click here

Join us for a virtual series of the filmmaker Hirokazu Koreeda's films:

9/2 7:00 pm "After Life" (1998): With an introduction by Dr. Neepa Majumdar and post-screening Q & A.

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The story of the Baghdadi Jews of Calcutta takes a trajectory very different from those of persecution and victimization we all have grown up watching movies about. The Jewish community of Calcutta was small but influential and prosperous, “a diaspora of hope.” Today just a handful of those Jews are left.

Virtual screening of Dwelling in Travelling, a documentary on Jewish Life in Calcutta, with Q&A with the director, Sobha Das Mollick, and Jael Silliman, author of Jewish Portraits, Indian Frames.

Part of the SCREENSHOT:ASIA year-round programming.

"Women in Horror" screening of new short films and conversation with the directors, representing countries from around the world, co-sponsored with Pitt’s Horror Studies Working Group

The University of Pittsburgh Honors College, working in collaboration with the George A. Romero Foundation, will be hosting a special virtual event Oct. 17 to celebrate the 25th anniversary of the groundbreaking horror film "Tales from the Hood," with the director himself, Rusty Cundieff. The anniversary event is free and open to the public at 7 p.m. EDT via https://streamyard.com/p4n7dkt82c, and is part of the Pitt Honors Horror Genre as a Social Force Scholar Community.