1998 > Japan > Directed by Hideo Nakata
With Nanako Matsushima, Miki Nakatani, Yžko Takeuchi
A reporter and her ex-husband investigate a cursed video tape that is rumored to kill the viewer seven days after watching it. A special Halloween screening with costume contest, treats, and more! Subtitled. More at www.americangenrefilm.com/theatrical-film-catalog/ringu
1 hr 36 min

2020 > France > Directed by David Dufresne
As anger and resentment grow in the face of social inequalities, many citizen-led protests are being repressed with an ever-increasing violence. In The Monopoly of Violence, David Dufresne gathers a panel of citizens to question, exchange and confront their views on the social order and the legitimacy of the use of force by the State. Subtitled. More at bigworldpictures.org/films/monopolyofviolence/index.html
1 hr 26 min

Christina Kiaer of Northwestern University will speak on Racial Solidarity at the Kyiv Film Festival: Black Skin, 1931. Request a copy of the paper: cf476@cornell.edu

This film event is FREE and the 1hr and 33 minute film will be followed by a panel discussion that includes the Director of the film Marcela Arteaga. Pizza will be served as well.

“According to the International Institute for Strategic Studies, Mexico became one of the deadliest conflict zones in the world in 2017, second only to Syria. In 2008, the Mexican government sent the army to Chihuahua on the Mexico-Texas border to fight drug traffickers. What seemed like an attempt to control the cartels turned into state-sponsored disappearances and the murder of journalists, human rights activists and civilians. The survivors and those threatened by the conflict pushed at the unwelcoming border of the United States, hoping for asylum. With stunning visual poetry, director Marcela Arteaga weaves together a record of their memories told over the backdrop of the once-vibrant landscape of the Juarez Valley. She also highlights the extraordinary work of Carlos Spector, an immigration lawyer born in El Paso, Texas, who fights to obtain political asylum for those Mexicans fleeing violence.” (Heather Haynes, Hot Docs)

Sponsored by the Latin American Studies Program.

website: chickeneggpics.org/grantee/the-guardian-of-memory

2021 > India > Directed by S.S. Rajmouli
With N.T. Rama Rao Jr (Jr NTR), Ram Charan, Ajay Devgn
An action-packed spectacular that mythologizes two real-life freedom fighters who helped lead India's fight for independence from the British Raj: Komaram Bheem (Jr NTR) and Alluri Sitarama Raju (Ram Charan). RRR imagines a fictional meeting between the two fighters amid staggeringly choreographed action sequences and an all-timer of a musical number. Screening with an intermission. Subtitled.
3 hrs 1 min

The Cornell Institute for African Development (IAD) hosts a monthly webinar on contemporary African issues. This webinar series features diverse voices from the African continent and the Diaspora on a wide range of themes, challenges, breakthroughs in cutting-edge research outcomes, innovations, and discoveries across all disciplines and area studies. The topics include climate change, the environment, gender, education, the economy, health, governance, creative arts, Indigenous knowledge systems, the youth, and the recent/ongoing COVID-19 pandemic. Other key topics deal with engaged research and academic issues on theory, critical thinking, approaches, methodologies, and fundamental and applied research in the development process. The webinar is open to the global academic public and all are welcome to participate.

1976 > France > Directed by Joseph Losey
With Alain Delon, Jeanne Moreau, Michel Lonsdale, Francine Berge
A political thriller, an existential nightmare, and an indictment of French collaboration under Nazi Occupation, Losey's masterful film stars Alain Delon as Mr. Klein, a Catholic art dealer who gets confused with another Mr. Klein, a Jew. "A slow-burning French thriller... Suffused not only with history, but also with echoes of Kafka, Dostoyevsky and the clipped paranoia of Losey's collaborations with Harold Pinter." (NY Times) Shown in a new 4K Restoration. Subtitled. More at www.rialtopictures.com/catalogue/mr-klein
2 hrs 3 min

MR. KLEIN - 4K Restoration Trailer from Rialto Pictures on Vimeo.