The Global Lens 2009 Film Series Comes to Shenandoah University This Fall
The Global Lens 2009 Film Series at Shenandoah features gems of cinema from countries rarely represented at the multiplex to screen for Winchester audiences
The Global Film Initiative and its Global Lens film series –featuring 10 award-winning narrative, feature films from Argentina, Brazil, China, Ecuador, Indonesia, Iran, Kazakhstan, Macedonia, Morocco and Mozambique –will screen the Winchester campus of Shenandoah University this fall. The films will be shown on Monday evenings at 7 p.m. in Stimpson Auditorium of Halpin-Harrison Hall, beginning on September 21 and running through November 30. Encore presentations will follow on Tuesdays in Hester Auditorium in Henkel Hall. The series is free and open to the public.
“This year’s lineup of films, from Central Asia to Latin America, is artistically strong and well balanced –it’s one of our best yet,”said Susan Weeks Coulter, board chair of the Global Film Initiative.
Global Lens 2009 includes the Macedonian submission for the Best Foreign Language Film Academy Award, I AM FROM TITOV VELES, along with critical favorites GETTING HOME (Ecumenical Jury Prize, Berlin International Film Festival) and POSSIBLE LIVES (Pavilion les Cinémas du Sud, Cannes Film Festival). As an added highlight, Sandra Kogut, director of “MUTUM,”winner of the Directors’Fortnight Award, will make an appearance for the screening of her film at Shenandoah on October 5.
This is the first year the series will be shown at Shenandoah University. The screenings are sponsored by the Office of Academic Affairs as part of the Going Global program of first-year seminars. The entire 10-film program delivers a choice slate of storytelling from regions not typically seen in mainstream cinema.
Global Lens is an annual, touring film series launched in 2003 by the Global Film Initiative to support the distribution of critically acclaimed cinematic works from around the world. Since its founding, the series has provided a platform for exceptional storytelling and opened a window into the diverse world in which we live.
"This year’s lineup of films, from Central Asia to Latin America, is artistically strong and well balanced ..."
Susan Coulter, board chair of the Global Film Initiative.
Below is a screening schedule for Global Lens 2009 at Shenandoah University All shows begin at 7 p.m.
Monday, September 21, Stimpson Auditorium of Halpin-Harrison Hall
Tuesday, September 22, Hester Auditorium in Henkel Hall
On the streets of Casablanca, a prostitute’s best friend –a tough traffic cop –falls in love with her best customer, a contract killer.
Monday, September 28, Stimpson Auditorium of Halpin-Harrison Hall
Tuesday, September 29, Hester Auditorium in Henkel Hall
A darkly comic feud is ignited when a Russian man suspects that his son is the result of an affair between his wife and a Kazakh neighbor.
Monday, October 5, Stimpson Auditorium of Halpin-Harrison Hall
Tuesday, October 6, Hester Auditorium in Henkel Hall
Burdened by his parents’unhappy marriage and father’s abuse, a young boy in rural Brazil grapples with his disintegrating family and uncertainties of the adult world. (Includes visit by Director Sandra Kogut)
Monday, October 19, Stimpson Auditorium of Halpin-Harrison Hall
Tuesday, October 20, Hester Auditorium in Henkel Hall
A day from completing their military training, three conscripts abandon a dismal army life and head off for freedom through the frozen wilderness of Northern Iran.
Mozambique
Monday, October 26, Stimpson Auditorium of Halpin-Harrison Hall
Tuesday, October 27, Hester Auditorium in Henkel Hall
In war-torn Mozambique, a young boy searches the desolate countryside for his family with the aid of an affectionate yet hard-hearted elderly guide.
Monday, November 2, Stimpson Auditorium of Halpin-Harrison Hall
Tuesday, November 3, Hester Auditorium in Henkel Hall
Set in the quaint but scarred town of Veles, three sisters put self-interest above family as they take desperate steps to escape their dying community.
Monday, November 9, Stimpson Auditorium of Halpin-Harrison Hall
Tuesday, November 10, Hester Auditorium in Henkel Hall
In Ecuador’s capital city, a coroner’s fragile emotional life is threatened when he develops a personal interest in his cases.
Monday, November 16, Stimpson Auditorium of Halpin-Harrison Hall
Tuesday, Novembr 17, Hester Auditorium in Henkel Hall
A woman searching for her missing husband in remote Patagonia encounters a man who appears to be her spouse, but has another name, another wife and another life.
Monday, November 23, Stimpson Auditorium of Halpin-Harrison Hall
Tuesday, November 24, Hester Auditorium in Henkel Hall
A prostitute struggling to support her family forms a bond with the reclusive portrait photographer from whom she rents a room.
Monday, November 30, Stimpson Auditorium of Halpin-Harrison Hall
Tuesday, December 1, Hester Auditorium in Henkel Hall
In a show of loyalty, an aging construction worker carries the body of his fallen friend hundreds of miles to a burial site in China’s Three Gorges region.
The Global Film Initiative is a U.S.-based, not-for-profit organization specializing in the support of independent film from Africa, Asia, Latin America and the Middle East. Founded in 2002 to promote cross-cultural understanding through the language of cinema, the initiative awards numerous grants to deserving filmmakers from around the world each year, and supports a touring film series entitled Global Lens. For more information about the Global Lens film series and Global Film Initiative programs, visit http://www.globalfilm.org/.