FILM@UC
archive | spring 2020
All showings Thursday night at 7:00 p.m. in Macfarlane Auditorium. Admission is free.
JANUARY 23
The Best of Enemies
[2019, USA, dir. Robin Bissel, 133 min.]The strange but true story of the unlikely friendship that grew between black civil rights activist Ann Atwater and local Ku Klux Klan leader C.P. Ellis after discovering common ground during their community’s struggle to end school segregation in Durham, N.C.
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JANUARY 30
Jinpa
[2018, China, dir. Pema Tseden, 87 min.]A chance meeting of two total strangers, a truck driver and a hitchhiker with plans to kill a man who wronged him ten years ago, results in their destinies being inextricably intertwined in this intriguing and mystical story of revenge, redemption, and perhaps, karma.
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FEBRUARY 6
A White, White Day
[2019, Iceland, dir. Hylnur Palmasan, 109 min.]A grieving policeman on bereavement leave following the tragic death of his wife becomes increasingly obsessed with solving the mystery of whether she had had an affair with a neighbor in their small, rural Icelandic town, risking the endangerment of everyone around him.
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FEBRUARY 13
Goldie
[2019, USA, dir. Sam de Jong, 88 min.]A raw, glamorous, and unflinching story of a determined Bronx teenager chasing her big break as a hip-hop dancer while desperately struggling to stay together with her younger sisters after her mother’s drug arrest.
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FEBRUARY 20
Freedom Fields
[2018, UK/Libya, dir. Naziha Arebi, 97 min.]Three members of Libya’s fledgling women’s national soccer team dream of their first international match as the hopes of the Arab Spring begin to fade and their country descends into civil war in this bold and intimate documentary filmed over the course of four years.
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FEBRUARY 27
Scheme Birds
[2019, Sweden/UK, dirs. Ellen Fiske & Ellinor Hallin, 90 min.]A candid and affecting documentary about the hardships and frustrations that plague the life of a strong willed and troubled teenager, as childhood transitions into motherhood amid drinking, violence, and heartbreak in the low-income housing estates outside of Motherwell, a fading Scottish steel town.
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MARCH 5
The Body Remembers When the World Broke Open
[2019, Canada, dirs. Elle-Máijá Tailfeathers & Kathleen Hepburn, 105 min.]A fragile bond forms between two Indigenous women from vastly different backgrounds on a cold, rainy sidewalk in East Vancouver, B.C., when domestic violence forces one of them barefoot and crying from her home in this intense, moving, and often poetic exploration of motherhood, class, race, and the ongoing legacy of colonialism under the Canadian nation state.
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MARCH 12
Where the Pavement Ends
[2019, USA, dir. Jane Gillooly, 86 min.]This powerful documentary explores the history of systemic racism and injustice in Ferguson, Missouri, from the institutionalized segregation of the mid-20th century to the killing of Michael Brown, through an artful collage-like blending of archival materials, maps, recordings, reflections, and interviews.
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