Come and enjoy selections from the Oberhausen International Short Film Festival. This event will feature the best selections from the 2014 German Program as well as the 2014 Music Video Program
October 16th
Director: Christian Petzold, 2013
Popcorn and drinks provided
Wings of Desire (Himmel über Berlin)
October 2nd
Director: Wim Wenders, 1987
Popcorn and drinks provided
*Director Andreas Voigt will attend the screenings of his films November 7-8. A discussion with the director will directly follow the screening. Popcorn and drinks provided.
Considered to be the most comprehensive documentation of events surrounding the 1989 Monday demonstrations in Leipzig, this film highlights the centerpiece of the citizens' movement that led to the fall of the Wall. As the only professional team able to film in Leipzig at the time, demonstrators were interviewed, as well as members of the citizens’ rights movement, officials and bystanders in East Germany’s peaceful revolution. Film Director Andreas Voigt will attend the screenings of his films November 7-8. A discussion with the director will directly follow the screening.
Two films will be screened:
* Who Is Vaclav Havel? (1977) Czech with English subtitles, 11 min.
* The Power of the Powerless (2009) English, 78 min.
A panel discussion will follow the films. Panelists include:
* John Allison, Sunday Editor of the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette
* Dr. Jay Ball, Assistant Professor of Theatre at Central Washington University
* Dr. Steven E. Sokol, President of the World Affairs Council of Pittsburgh
Two Films at 3:00 – 5:00 PM
* Joseph Killian aka A Person to Be Supported (1963) Czech with English subtitles, 38 min. Directed by Pavel Juracek
* A Report on Party and Guests (1968) Czech with English subtitles, 71 min. Directed by Jan Nemec
Two Films at 6:30 – 9:00 PM
* The Uninvited Guest (1969) Czech with English subtitles, 22 min. Directed by Vlastimil Venclik
* And the Beggar’s Opera Again (1996) Czech with English subtitles, 60 min. Directed by Olga Summerova
You are invited to a free sneak peek film screening of the documentary film “Under the Umbrella Tree” describing the work of Bright Kids Uganda and its founder Victoria Namusisi.
Q&A with Ms. Namusisi, of Entebbe Uganda, following each screening.
Thurs., Oct. 9 at 2pm in 4130 Wesley Posvar Hall
More info: Ford Institute GSPIA – fihs@pitt.edu --or-- African Studies Program - www.ucis.pitt.edu/africa
The Ukrainian Community of Western Pennsylvania (UCOWPA), in partnership with the University of Pittsburgh, cordially invites you to the “HOVERLA” Ukrainian American Film Festival – a multi-weekend event full of great films, interactive environment and all-encompassing experience! Limited space is available and caps at 200.
OCTOBER 5, 12, 19 & 26, 2014
5:30 PM and 7 PM screenings
WU Wenguang, one of the founding figures in Chinese independent documentary, brings three young filmmakers from China to present their collective work, “the Memory Project.” The project is based at Coachangdi Workstation in Beijing. From there, young filmmakers fanned out to return to family villages and their own pasts, real and imagined, to inquire about The Great Famine of 1959-61 — a disaster of whose memories have been actively abandoned by the state.
