This film is part of the Silk Screen Film Festival. Admission is free to Pitt students with an ID. One of the greatest scandals in Japanese police history, the Inaba Case, is the basis of this gritty, crime thriller. In 2002, Yoshiaki Inaba, a police inspector of Hokkaido Prefectural Police, was indicted on several counts involving weapons and narcotics.

Director: Kazuya Shiraishi
Cast: Go Ayano, Munetaka Aoki, Young Dais
Language: Japanese, with English subtitles

This film is part of the Silk Screen Film Festival. Admission is free to Pitt students with an ID. An audience favorite from the 2013 Silk Screen Festival, Foreign Letters is a beautiful testimony of friendship and adolescence. Ellie escaped Israel with her family as a child and grew up in 1980s Connecticut. The film chronicles her early experiences in America, observations of wealth and excess and her crippling feelings of isolation from her peers.

This film is part of the Silk Screen Film Festival. Admission is free to Pitt students with an ID. Since his wife was killed, Leonard To has lost his job, his friends and maintains only a tenuous hold on his sanity and stability. The police have suspended their investigation, but Leonard continues his obsessive search for his wife’s killer. Leonard is futilely trying to put his life back together when he encounters a stranger standing at his wife’s grave.

Director: Dax Phelan
Cast: Jason Tobin, Eugenia Yuan, Byron Mann
Language: English

This film is part of the Silk Screen Film Festival. Admission is free to Pitt students with an ID. Mr. Royami, an eccentric radio producer attempts to schedule an on-air collaborative jam session between an Afghan rock band and the legendary Metallica. Believing that music can go a long way towards demonstrating the kind of compassion missing from global politics, Royami tries to will into reality his most idealistic dream: watching Metallica shred with Kabul Dreams, one of Afghanistan’s premier rock bands.

This film is part of the Silk Screen Film Festival. Admission is free to Pitt students with an ID. Lahore used to be a mecca of Pakistani culture, a thriving center of art, music and poetry. When the Islamic government took over, strict rules were imposed that made art a punishable sin. The Sachel Studio Jazz Ensemble help show a side of Pakistan rarely seen by Western audiences: a lively, colorful place, with cultural heart. When the group’s rendition of "Take Five" achieved viral status on YouTube, they are invited to play in New York City with jazz legend Wynton Marsalis.

After she witnesses a shocking incident on a late night train ride, Chini is swept into a traumatic state of remembrance of her own past. The incident triggers flashbacks of Chini’s childhood in rural India. Destitute, and sent by her father to live with her uncle, life-changing events forever alter Chini’s perception of the world she lives in. Toggling between past and present, The Silence is a dynamic drama based on a true story that tackles taboos and courage within a pain-clouded atmosphere.

This film is part of the Silk Screen Film Festival. Admission is free to Pitt students with an ID. Rarely explored in film, Memories of the Wind tackles the Armenian genocide in a subtle, yet affecting way. Aram is a poet on the run in the winter of 1943. Suspected of being a communist sympathizer, he is forced to flee Istanbul during the latter half of World War II. He winds up in secluded expanse of forest on the Soviet-Georgian border where a boorish Turkish man named Mikhail and a beautiful young Russian woman named Meryem provide shelter.

This film is part of the Silk Screen Film Festival. Admission is free to Pitt students with an ID. Shy, closeted Korean-American teenager David must find a job to pay for his expensive SAT classes when his parents begin to struggle financially. David takes a position at a Korean spa his parents frequent for traditional scrubs, but the teenager soon discovers that there is much more to the spa than initially meets the eye. Shot on location in Los Angeles’ Koreatown, Spa Night dips its introverted lead into the sensual waters of the underground spa life.

This film is part of the Silk Screen Film Festival. Admission is free to Pitt students with an ID. 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. The Gulls was shot on location in the Russian Republic of Kalmykia.

This film is part of the Silk Screen Film Festival. Admission is free to Pitt students with an ID. Lahore used to be a mecca of Pakistani culture, a thriving center of art, music and poetry. When the Islamic government took over, strict rules were imposed that made art a punishable sin. The Sachel Studio Jazz Ensemble help show a side of Pakistan rarely seen by Western audiences: a lively, colorful place, with cultural heart. When the group’s rendition of "Take Five" achieved viral status on YouTube, they are invited to play in New York City with jazz legend Wynton Marsalis.