The 2012 Carnegie Mellon International Film Festival: Faces of Others

Whores' Glory is a cinematic triptych that explores the world of prostitution and how the globalization of one of the world's oldest professions has impacted the uncertain lives of prostitutes in Thailand, Bangladesh, and Mexico. (Directed by Michael Glawogger |Germany/Austria | 2011 | 110 min.)

+ Skype session with Director Michael Glawogger

The 2012 Carnegie Mellon International Film Festival: Faces of Others

The Battle of Warsaw 1920, the first Polish feature-length film to be entirely in 3D, reenacts the historically significant battle of the Polish-Soviet War of 1920. (Directed by Jerzy Hoffman | Poland | 2011 | 115 min.)

The 2012 Carnegie Mellon International Film Festival: Faces of Others

Russia's Prime Minister, Vladimir Putin, is often perceived as being a tyrant by Westerners, however, to many Russians, especially the youth, he embodies the qualities of a strong, charismatic father figure. (Directed by Lise Birk Pederson | Denmark/Russia | 2011 | 82 min.)

+ Reception

The 2012 Carnegie Mellon International Film Festival: Faces of Others

"If you dream of your brother returning, you will face a disaster." This is the ominous advice that the ten-year-old Xiang must heed to after he begins seeing visions of his long deceased sibling. (Directed by Chung Mong-Hong, Taiwan/China | 2010 | 102 min.)

+ Reception

The 2012 Carnegie Mellon International Film Festival: Faces of Others

Dominik is a graduating high school senior with a promising future who enjoys partying and spending time with his friends. When he accidentally discovers his homosexual feelings, he becomes the victim of bullying and public humiliation. (Poland, 2011, 110 min.)
Presented in conjunction with the "Through Polish Eyes" Film Festival. Sponsored by University of Pittsburgh's Russian and East European Studies Center, Department of Slavic Languages and Literatures, and Film Studies Program.

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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 “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/USA, 2011)

+ Opening Night Reception

With financial crises looming in Europe, the world is bracing for new shocks. How will it all play out? Will the euro and the European Union survive? These and many other questions engage students at the University of Pittsburgh. Join us to learn about some of the initiatives that Pitt graduate students from varying disciplines are creating to bring the EU to campus (or bring the campus to the EU)! Don’t miss out on this chance to meet colleagues who have similar research, professional or extracurricular interests in the EU. And, of course, pizza will be served.

Paul Adams is Assistant Professor of Political Science at the University of Pittsburgh at Greensburg. His research interests center around the relations between the European Union and Switzerland, Iceland, Norway, and the Microstates of Europe. He has also written articles on corporatism and comparative politics. Dr. Adams will be presenting this lecture, which is also on the program for the 2012 International Studies Association Convention in San Diego in April 2012.

Lunch will be served.

This is the 12th seminar presented by the National Consortium for Teaching about Asia (NCTA), the Global Studies Center (UCIS), and the World History Center at hte University of Pittsburgh. The general public is welcome.

The gap between the art and the science involved in producing Early Modern bird’s-eye views has long puzzled historians. On a visual level, city views were posited as being oriented toward a single perspective while simultaneously opening up vast, impossibly elevated cityscapes. Frequently they included the artist–cartographer’s self-portrait within the image, often shown sketching the city from a high hilltop—as if to verify the view as something witnessed and drawn directly from life.