Film Night Course
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Cultural Studies and Language Series - Fall 2026
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Tishman (200) |
Kinoteca (48) |
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6:45 pm |
Gallant Indies (Béziat - Cogitore/Dembélé, 2020, France) 1h49 Documentary music/dance A hybrid film that brings together dancers from Paris’s Opéra and hip-hop artists in a contemporary reimagining of Jean-Philippe Rameau’s Les Indes galantes. Through movement, music, and shifting identities, the film explores encounter, desire, conflict, and cultural difference. |
Left-Handed Girl (Shih-Ching Tsou, 2025, Taiwan) 1h49 A mother and her two daughters move to Taipei and struggle to rebuild their lives in a rapidly changing city. Through the youngest daughter’s unconventional perspective, the film explores family, independence, gender, and the pressures of tradition and modernity. |
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9:00 pm |
The Little Sister (Hafzia Herzi, 2025, France) 1h48 Coming of age drama Fatima, a young Muslim woman from a working-class family, begins to explore her attraction to women while negotiating faith, family expectations, and her own emerging identity. Adapted from Fatima Daas’s novel, the film offers an intimate portrait of desire, sexuality, and emancipation in contemporary France. |
Rashomon (Kurosawa, 1950, Japan), 1h28 Period drama After a violent crime in a forest, several witnesses recount radically different versions of what happened. By presenting conflicting perspectives, the film questions the reliability of memory, testimony, and truth itself. |
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11:30 pm |
Y tu mamá también (Cuarón, 2001, Mexico) 1h46 Road movie / Coming-of-age drama Two teenage friends embark on a road trip across Mexico with an older woman they have just met. Their journey of desire, friendship, and discovery unfolds against a country marked by profound social and political divisions. |
Touki Bouki (Mambéty, 1973, Senegal) 1h29 Drama / Road movie In Dakar, young lovers Mory and Anta dream of escaping to Paris and building a new life far from Senegal. Their restless journey becomes a surreal portrait of desire, migration, and the seductive pull of elsewhere. |
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2:00 am |
Persepolis (Satrapi, 2007, France/Iran) 1h36 Animated coming-of-age drama Growing up in Iran during the Islamic Revolution, young Marjane witnesses political upheaval, war, and profound changes in her country and family. Sent to Europe as a teenager, she struggles to reconcile her Iranian identity with her new life abroad. |
Persona (Bergman, 1966, Sweden) 1h23 Psychological drama A celebrated actress suddenly stops speaking and retreats to a seaside house with her young nurse, Alma. As the two women grow increasingly intertwined, the boundaries between their identities begin to dissolve. |
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4:00 am |
Little Miss Sunshine (Dayton/Faris, 2006, USA) 1h41 Comedy / Family road movie A dysfunctional family piles into a battered van to take young Olive to a children's beauty pageant in California. Their chaotic journey exposes their failures and conflicts while revealing the unexpected strength of their family bond. |
The Guilty (Möller, 2018, Denmark) 1h30 Psychological thriller A suspended police officer working as an emergency dispatcher receives a desperate call from a kidnapped woman. Confined to his desk, he races against time to save her using only what he can hear over the phone. |