Italian Fulbright - The Presidential Party
Gianluca Passarelli
(Sapienza Università di Roma)
Gianluca Passarelli
(Sapienza Università di Roma)
Multimodal (Mis)Representations of Southern Italy Overseas
Italian Fulbright Distinguished Lecture
Flavia Cavaliere
(Università di Napoli Federico II)
Posvar 4217
Masks required
Dr. Joseph-Masséna will present excerpts from her book manuscript Voicing Vodou: Haitian Women Writers and the Goddess Ezili. Her project highlights a previously unidentified literary genre created by three Haitian women writers which she calls “The Eziliphonic text.
Please join us for a discussion with MEET EU Emerging Filmmaker, Simon Elvås (Sweden) as part of our Pittsburgh EU Film Festival 2022.
Please join us for a conversation with Andreas Voigt, director of Borderland/Grenzland as part of our Pittsburgh EU Film Festival 2022.
Audience participation is encouraged.
Please join us for a conversation with Grégory Magne, director of Les Parfums, as part of our Pittsburgh EU Film Festival 2022.
Audience participation is encouraged.
he Pittsburgh EU Film Festival 2022 kicks off with a virtual screening of our MEET EU Shorts. Audience members are encouraged to vote for their favorite short. The winner will be announced at the end of our festival.
More details, including the entire festival schedule can be found on our website: https://www.ucis.pitt.edu/esc/film-festival
The film is inspired by the true story of herbalist Jan Mikolasek, who dedicated his life to caring for the sick in spite of the immense obstacles he faced in his private and public life. Born at the turn of the 20th century, Mikolasek wins fame and fortune using unorthodox treatment methods to cure a wide range of diseases. Already a local institution in Czechoslovakia before World War II, the healer gains in reputation and wealth, whether during the Nazi occupation or under the Communist rule.
The last year in the life of Bettino Craxi, as told by Gianni Amelio. An undisputed protagonist of international politics and, until recently, revered in Italy, Bettino Craxi is now in Hammamet, far from his homeland. Overwhelmed by the populist surge that toppled the formerly governing democratic parties which rose to power during the first fifty years of the Italian Republic, and caught up in a series of judicial inquiries, President Craxi can no longer return to his homeland as a free man.
An international arms deal is interrupted by teenage protestors. A Swedish engineer tries to prevent his activist daughter from embarassing him at work and ruining Sweden's relations with Turkey. A virtual Q&A with Simon Elvås will take place at 11:00 a.m. EST on February 1st. To pre-order free tickets and to watch click watch.eventive.org/pgheufilmfest/play/61e423d0a29e7b00537813b0.
COUNTRY: Sweden (2021)
DIRECTOR: Simon Elvås, MEET EU Emerging Filmmaker in Residence