This competition is open to all students who are currently studying a world language. Their task is to prepare a marketing strategy for a designated target market and product. For the 2011-2012 competition, the target country is Brazil and the product is from Bayer's Advanced All-in-One Rose & Flower Care line.
Graduate and undergraduate students graduating this spring will showcase their capstone research and highlight how their classroom, co-curricular and/or study abroad, helped shape their understanding of critical global issues. We invite you to join us for lunch, view their displays, and congratulate them on their success. We will also present certificates to our students who have successfully completed the program.
A documentary on the transformation of Mikhail Khodorkovsky - from a perfect socialist to a perfect capitalist and finally, in a Siberian prison, becoming a perfect martyr. Khodorkovky - the richest Russian, challenges President Putin. A fight of the titans begins. Putin warns him. But Khodorkovsky comes back to Russia - knowing that he will be imprisoned, once he returns. Why didn't Khodorkovsky stay in Exile with a couple of billions? Why did he come back? Why did he do that? A personal journey to Khodorkovsky. (Filmed, directed and produced by Cyril Tuschi; Duration : 111 min)
The 2012 Carnegie Mellon International Film Festival: Faces of Others
Black Butterflies tells the story of Ingrid Jonker (1933-1965), a celebrated South African poet who lived during the time of the Apartheid racial segregations. Shortly after the passing of her mother, Jonker moved in with her estranged father, the Minister of Censorship in South Africa. (Directed by Paula van der Oest | South Africa/The Netherlands | 2011 | 100 min.)
+ Closing Night Reception
The 2012 Carnegie Mellon International Film Festival: Faces of Others
After killing a small group of American soldiers in the desert of an unnamed country, the Arab insurgent Mohammed is apprehended and "rendered" to Europe for questioning, made impossible both by the language barrier and by his being deafened by an explosion. (Directed by Jerzy Skolimowski | Poland/Hungary/Ireland/Norway | 2011 | 83 min.)
The 2012 Carnegie Mellon International Film Festival: Faces of Others
Alex is a young Bucharest resident who lives a comfortable life with his girlfriend in their apartment. Unexpectedly, Alex's mother suffers a stroke and is hospitalized at the local town hospital, and concerned for his mother's health, travels back home on a whim. (Directed by Adrian Sitaru
Romania/Hungary | 2011 | 105 min.)
The 2012 Carnegie Mellon International Film Festival: Faces of Others
When dawn breaks, a deaf couple is seen furiously arguing in sign language as they discover that their young nephew, Arshia, has been abandoned by his parents in the night. (Directed by Morteza Farshbaf | Iran | 2011 | 85 min.)
+ Reception
The 2012 Carnegie Mellon International Film Festival: Faces of Others
Through five video cameras, Palestinian farmer Emad Burnat captures the different angles and developing story of his village's resistance to Israeli oppression. (Directed by Emad Burnat and Guy Davidi | The Netherlands/France/Israel/Palestine | 2011 | 90 min.)
+ Director Emad Burnat is scheduled to appear
+ Reception
The 2012 Carnegie Mellon International Film Festival: Faces of Others
The 2012 Carnegie Mellon International Film Festival: Faces of Others
El Sicario, Room 164 explores the terrifyingly casual roots of evil through the eyes of an unnamed, former "el sicario”a hit man and enforcer for a drug cartel in Ciudad Juárez who once kidnapped and tortured someone in the very room in which Gianfranco Rosi films this thrilling documentary. (France/United States | 2011 | 80 min.)
