Join us for a special colloquium where University of Pittsburgh graduate students will interrogate and challenge the definitions of 'national' and 'transnational' through an investigation of American, German, Russian, Israeli, Palestinian, Mexican, South Korean, and Japanese screen cultures.

Panelists:

Yvonne Franke, German/Film

No Home in Place: German Heimat on the Move

Olga Klimova, Slavic/Film

Beach as a Liberated Space of Teenagers: The Allegories of Optimistic Past and Pessimistic Present in Soviet Cinema of the 1970s

Film directed by Luis Estrada.

Part of the Global Lens 2010 Series. In a poor mining town in western China, the stories of a father and his two children intersect and intertwine, illuminating complicated relationships hidden beneath the community's hardened exterior. Accused of an affair with her manager, the attractive daughter of the household finds herself spurned by her boyfriend and forced to accept an arranged marriage.

Up until now the perilous situation in Sudan has been seen only from outside the country. 'All About Darfur' offers an opportunity to hear it explained by eloquent, diverse and even contradictory voices from within Sudan.

Q&A with Goran Radovanovic, the director, after the screening.

Pitt BCS Club is selling tickets for a film presented by the American Serbian Club. A special student price has been secured of $10 for the

movie, and $18 for dinner and a movie. Please contact Carl Shimel, cjs82@pitt.edu for more details and to purchase tickets.

Part of the Global Lens 2010 Series. In this deeply affecting portrait of ordinary courage in present-day South Africa, a single mother-Shirley Adams -struggles to care for her paraplegic teenage son, Donovan, in a depressed district on the outskirts of Cape Town. Wearied but resolute, she desperately clings to him as he withdraws from the world following a suicide attempt, and is hopeful when his spirits are momentarily lifted by the appearance of Tamsin, a pretty but overeager social worker.

Part of the Global Lens 2010 Series. In this riveting, insider's perspective on life in Iran's capital city, Marzieh--a terminally ill actress--wearily relates her desperate quest for political asylum through a series of interviews with an unsympathetic government official.

Often copied, but never truly duplicated, Asian Horror is renowned for providing genre fans with some of the most boundary-pushing and artful cinema experiences to be found.

So, please join us for a distinctive selection of blood-curdling, spine-tingling, watch-with-one-eye-covered, spooky films this Halloween season.

Often copied, but never truly duplicated, Asian Horror is renowned for providing genre fans with some of the most boundary-pushing and artful cinema experiences to be found.

So, please join us for a distinctive selection of blood-curdling, spine-tingling, watch-with-one-eye-covered, spooky films this Halloween season.