Italian instructor Matteo Talotta will present one of the most acclaimed Italian comedies in recent years. A group of thirty-something ex-academics and professionals finds themselves out of work and down on their luck in a post-financial-crisis Italy. Together, they decide to turn their luck around by forming their own crime ring – with interesting consequences.

Italian instructor Cinzia Delfini will present one of her favorite films, the dramatic-comedy Perfetti sconosciuti. A seemingly normal dinner party goes awry when everyone decides to leave their phones out on the dinner table. Texts messages and secrets emerge as the evening descends into chaos.

Italian instructor Eliza Jermyn will present one of her favorite films and one of the best new films from acclaimed director Paolo Virzì.

Prof. Lina Insana will introduce one of her favorite films of Italian cinema, the Academy Award-winning Nuovo Cinema Paradiso.

Scaffolding depicts the coming of age of impulsive troublemaker Asher in his junior year of high school. Essentially sweet and charming, but mostly controlled by his own inner rage, Asher feels pressure from both his strict father who sees him as the natural successor to the family’s scaffolding business and his gentle literature teacher Rami, the only person in his life who makes him believe he is capable of more than a laborer. Torn between this old school and new age masculinity, Asher has to take the ultimate test of maturity when sudden tragedy occurs.

The Japan Council of the University of Pittsburgh is pleased to announce the winner of the first biennial University of Pittsburgh Japan Documentary Film Award: Sennan Asbestos Disaster, directed by award-winning veteran filmmaker Kazuo Hara. More than ten years in the making, Sennan Asbestos Disaster follows a dwindling group of dying former asbestos workers as they seek justice and recognition from an indifferent Japanese government As Mr.

The world's first documentary about Siberia's punk rock scene in the 1980s. It was a phenomenon of those times that this music existed thousands of miles away from the movement's epicenters in New York and London.

In response to Russian leader Vladimir Putin’s 2013 outlawing of “gay propaganda,” activist Elena Klimova created Children 404, an online forum for Russian-speaking LGBTQ teens.

A wild flower power ride on the footprints of the Soviet hippie movement take you into the psychedelic underground of 1970s.