The University of Pittsburgh's Center for Russian, East European, and Eurasian Studies is proud to sponsor the 9th edition of the RFF titled Homelands. This year's festival reflects on current events, while celebrating the power of film to map out new meanings into a world where people have been displaced by wars, economic crises, political instability, and natural disasters. Internationally acclaimed movies featured in a carefully curated selection, covering all forms and genres, as well as film-related events with special guests, will redefine the sense of homeland and belonging, in relation to our families, neighbors, countries of origin, and, by extension, to our planet itself.

Films will be screened online with free tickets provided to Pitt faculty and students. More information to be announced.

Join the Global Studies Center for final group presentations from the Global Health Case Competition.

2022-2023 MEET EU EMERGING FILMMAKER
In partnership with the Jean Monnet Center of Excellence at Florida International University, Center for European Studies of the University of North Carolina-Chapel Hill and University of Pittsburgh’s European Studies Center, this year's MEET EU Emerging Filmmaker Residency goes to Vida Skerk from Zagreb Croatia.

The European Studies Center will be featuring her 2022 short film Night Ride (Noćna vožnja), a discussion with the director and reception to follow in the Frick Arts Cloister.

About: Night Ride explores quarter-life identity crisis through the perspective of a twentysomething student in Croatia. Dunja, the main character, questions her decision to move to a bigger city and regrets leaving behind the safety of her hometown where she could always count on the support of her close friend, Sara.
Exploring the “borders” and boundaries, the film is constructed as a series of dreams and nightmares which evade a linear narrative structure and retain the qualities of a more stream-of-consciousness approach, presenting to the viewer Dunja’s inner world in its most authentic, raw and honest form.