The Ross Pendergraft Library invites the campus and the community to our International Film Festival. The festivities kick off March 4th with a screening of “Yojimbo”, a Japanese samurai film directed by Akira Kurosawa, at 7:00 PM at the Doc Bryan Lecture Hall.
Eight films in four languages are included in this year’s festival. Each screening is considered an On Track event for Global Focus.
All screenings are free and open to the public. Each film begins at 7:00 PM at Doc Bryan Lecture Hall.
Here’s a listing of dates and films:
Wednesday, March 4 @ 7:00 PM: Yojimbo
Japanese with English subtitles, 1961. A crafty ronin comes to a town divided by two criminal gangs and decides to play them against each other to free the town. Directed by Akira Kurosawa, the film was later remade in the United States as A Fistful of Dollars.
Thursday, March 5 @ 7:00 PM: Amour
French with English subtitles, 2012. Georges and Anne are an octogenarian couple. They are cultivated, retired music teachers. Their daughter, also a musician, lives in Britain with her family. One day, Anne has a stroke, and the couple’s bond of love is severely tested.
Tuesday, March 10 @ 7:00 PM: Ran
Japanese with English subtitles, 1985. In Medieval Japan, an elderly warlord retires, handing over his empire to his three sons. However, he vastly underestimates how the new-found power will corrupt them and cause them to turn on each other…and him. Akira Kurosawa’s adaptation of King Lear.
Wednesday, March 11 @ 7:00 PM: Die welle (The Wave)
German with English subtitles, 2008. A high school teacher’s experiment to demonstrate to his students what life is like under a dictatorship spins horribly out of control when he forms a social unit with a life of its own.
Thursday, March 12 @ 7:00 PM: La reina de España (The Queen of Spain)
Spanish with English subtitles, 2016. Nearly twenty years after the events of “The Girl of Your Dreams”, in the 1950s, Macarena Granada, who has become a Hollywood star, returns to Spain to film a blockbuster about Queen Isabella I of Castile.
Tuesday, March 17 @ 7:00 PM: Barbara
CANCELLED
German with English subtitles, 2012. A doctor working in 1980s East Germany finds herself banished to a small country hospital.
Wednesday, March 18 @ 7:00 PM: El secreto de sus ojos (The secret in their eyes)
CANCELLED
Spanish with English subtitles, 2009. A retired legal counselor writes a novel hoping to find closure for one of his past unresolved homicide cases and for his unreciprocated love with his superior.
Thursday, March 19 @ 7:00 PM: Ernest et Célestine
CANCELLED
French with English subtitles, 2012. The story of an unlikely friendship between a bear, Ernest, and a young mouse named Célestine. Animated film.
The festival, now in its fifth year, is organized by ATU faculty members Dr. Nelson Ramìrez, professor of Spanish; Dr. Lowell Lybarger, associate librarian; and Philippe Van Houtte, associate librarian and visiting lecturer of French.
For more information about the festival, including posters, ratings, summaries, and film trailers, visit the International Film Festival website. Or follow the library on Instagram, Twitter, and Facebook for more events and programs.