Screening Schedule

Below is a screening schedule for Global Lens 2009 at Shenandoah University. All shows begin at 7 p.m.

  • WHAT A WONDERFUL WORLD, dir. Faouzi Bensaïdi, Morocco
    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.

  • SONG FROM THE SOUTHERN SEAS (PESN’JUZHNYKH MOREJ) , dir. Marat Sarulu, Kazakhstan
    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.

  • MUTUM, dir. Sandra Kogut, Brazil
    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)

  • October 12 –NO SCREENING (Fall Break at Shenandoah University)



  • THOSE THREE (AN SEH), dir. Naghi Nemati, Iran
    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.

  • SLEEPWALKING LAND (TERRA SONÂMBULA), dir. Teresa Prata,
    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.


  • I AM FROM TITOV VELES (JAS SUM OD TITOV VELES), dir. Teona Strugar Mitevska, Macedonia
    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.


  • MY TIME WILL COME (CUANDO ME TOQUE A MI), dir. Victor Arregui, Ecuador
    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.


  • POSSIBLE LIVES (LAS VIDAS POSIBLES), dir. Sandra Gugliotta, Argentina
    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.


  • THE PHOTOGRAPH, dir. Nan Triveni Achnas, Indonesia
    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.


  • GETTING HOME (LUO YE GUI GEN), dir. Zhang Yang, China
    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/.