Dear UConn Community,
LANGSA, the Languages Graduate Student Association, would like to invite you to our annual film festival! This year, we will be celebrating the LCL Department’s underrepresented languages by putting the spotlight on films in languages of our department that you might not know we have, including Korean, Farsi, Arabic, Hebrew, and Portuguese. This is a great opportunity to explore international cinema in languages you might not be (or perhaps are!) familiar with. All are welcome! Even if you don’t speak any of these languages, there will be English subtitles on all of them.
Our festival will be taking place Monday –Friday, November 11–15 at 7pm in the Homer Babbidge Library, room 2119A (Video Theater 2).
Snacks, pizza, and refreshments will be provided!
Here’s a sneak peek at the films we will be playing, which all start at 7pm:
- Monday, 11/11 – In The Last Days of The City(Arabic)
In Cairo in 2009, young filmmaker Khalid struggles to finish a film about his city while dealing with loss in his personal life. His friends come together and send him footage from their cities: Beirut, Berlin, and Baghdad. With the help of his friends, he finds the strength to endure the challenges of and find the beauty in living in his city of Cairo.
- Tuesday, 11/12 – Corumbiara(Portuguese)
This documentary presents the journey of an activist to stop the destruction of the habitat of the Canoé Indian tribes in western Brazil. The film depicts the personal account of filmmaker Vincent Carrelli’s 20 years of activism in Corumbiara and includes rare footage of one of the last survivors of an unknown tribe.
- Wednesday, 11/13 – Train to Busan(Korean)
Seok-woo, his estranged daughter, and other passengers find themselves trapped on a train from Seoul to Busan during a sudden outbreak of a zombie apocalypse. This award-winning film is the highest grossing Korean film of 2016 is the country’s first zombie film.
- Thursday, 11/14 – Where Is the Friend’s Home?(Farsi)
While doing his homework, Ahmed, an 8-year old boy, realizes he took his classmate’s notebook by mistake. Knowing that his classmate will probably be expelled unless he turns it in the next day, he searches for his classmate’s home in a neighboring village of Iran.
- Friday, 11/15 – Footnote(Hebrew)
Eliezer Shkolnik and his son Uriel are rival professors who both work in the Talmud Studies department of the Hebrew University of Jerusalem. When they both get news that Eliezer will be awarded the prestigious Israel Prize, their complicated relationship reaches new heights.
We would love to see you for 1 night or the whole week of the LANGSA film festival! Drop by November 11–15 at 7pm in the Homer Babbidge Library, room 2119A (Video Theater 2) for some pizza, snacks, and international cinema.
If you have any questions, please feel free to contact LANGSA president
Damian Deamici at damian.deamici@uconn.edu.
Hope to see you there!
Best,
The LANGSA team
For more information, contact: Damian Deamici at damian.deamici@uconn.edu