FILM@UC
season line-up | fall 2021
All showings Thursday night at 7:00 p.m. in Macfarlane Auditorium, unless otherwise noted. Admission is free.
SEPTEMBER 2
Lunana: A Yak in the Classroom
(2019, Bhutan, dir. Pawo Choyning Dorji, 110 mins.) A young teacher from Bhutan’s capital city arrives in a remote northern community to complete his final year of training and finds himself affected by the high altitude, the lack of amenities, and the disarming warmth of the local children.
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SEPTEMBER 9
Looking For A Lady With Fangs And A Moustache
(2021, Nepal, dir. Khyentse Norbu, 114 mins.)After visiting an abandoned temple in the center of Kathmandu, a thirty-something Tibetan entrepreneur who is skeptical of superstitions becomes haunted by visions which foretell his imminent death and, upon the advice of an eccentric monk, lead him to scour the city for a dakini, a mysterious being who embodies Buddhist teachings on "feminine energy.”.
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SEPTEMBER 16
Undine
(2020, Germany, dir. Christian Petzold, 90 mins.)The modern-day love life of a museum historian in Berlin is complicated by the fact that she is a mythological water nymph who can only remain human while she is in love with a man but is doomed to die if he is ever unfaithful to her.
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SEPTEMBER 23
The Witches of the Orient
(2021, France, dir. Julian Faraut, 100 mins.)The true story of how a group of Osaka textile workers became feminist role models, the subject of a wildly popular comic book and a still-influential anime, and Japan’s fiercely competitive volleyball team who triumphed in the 1964 Tokyo Olympics is told using archival footage of the women in training and on the court, animated versions of their championship games, and moving interviews with the women today.
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SEPTEMBER 30
Never Gonna Snow Again
(2020, Poland, dirs. Małgorzata Szumowska and Michal Englert, 113 mins.)A handsome and enigmatic Ukrainian masseur arrives in a wealthy gated community in Poland where his alienated and depressed – and ultimately condescending – clients come to believe he has extraordinary, perhaps even magical, healing abilities.
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OCTOBER 7
Berlin Alexanderplatz
(2020, Germany, dir. Burhan Qurbani, 183 mins.)An African immigrant struggling to make a new life for himself in Germany soon realizes how difficult it is to be righteous while being undocumented, and as his life spirals out of control he is eventually sucked in Berlin's underworld in this timely reinterpretation of Alfred Döblin’s novel about a man who tried to be good “but then ran out of money.”
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OCTOBER 14
Sabaya
(2021, Sweden, dir. Hogir Hirori, 90 mins.)With just a mobile phone and a gun, Mahmud, Ziyad, and their group risk their lives infiltrating al-Hol, the sprawling and dangerous camp for refugees and internally displaced persons in Syria, in hopes of locating and freeing women and girls of the Yazidi religious minority who are being held as sex slaves by ISIS followers secretly living there in this harrowing documentary.
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OCTOBER 21
This is Not a Movie: Robert Fisk and the Politics of Truth
(2019, Canada, dir. Yung Chang, 106 mins.)This crucial documentary profiles the late journalist Robert Fisk who, for more than forty years, relentlessly risked his life to get firsthand accounts of countries devastated by war.
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