Join Ackland for the next screening in the Ackland Film Forum’s Spring 2023 series Do Something: Responding to Climate Change presented by UNC Film Studies and the Ackland Art Museum. Introduction by Dr. Gustavo Furtado (Duke University) Synopsis In this … Read more
Can anyone be a movie hero? Can the world be locked in one film frame? Acclaimed Polish documentarian Paweł Łoziński directs his camera at the sidewalk below his balcony. On this gray strip of pavement, sandwiched between dull green grass … Read more
Franek and Jozek Kalina, sons of a poor farmer, are brothers from a small village in central Poland. Franek immigrated to the United States in the 80’s, and cut all ties with his family. Only when Jozek’s wife arrives in … Read more
July 2014. Expectant parents Irka and Tolik live in the Donetsk region of eastern Ukraine near the Russian border. Their nervous anticipation of their first child’s birth is violently disrupted as the vicinal crash of MH17 airliner elevates the forbidding … Read more
Ukraine << Rewind presents a curated selection of films by Ukrainian filmmakers about the war in Ukraine since 2014. Exquisitely shot and bold in its storytelling approach, director Iryna Tsilyk’s documentary follows single mother Anna and her four children as … Read more
Ukraine << Rewind presents a curated selection of films by Ukrainian filmmakers about the war in Ukraine since 2014. In Donbass, war is called peace, propaganda is uttered as truth, and hatred is declared to be love. A journey through … Read more
Ukraine << Rewind presents a curated selection of films by Ukrainian filmmakers about the war in Ukraine since 2014. Four short stories set along the roads of Eastern Ukraine during the war. Highlighting in particular the vulnerability of women during … Read more
A murder-mystery and romance combine in this Indian cult film that caps off the Global Cult Cinema series. Om Shanti Om Farah Khan, 2007, India, 2h 42m Introduction by Priya Shanker, UNC-Wilmington FILM SYNOPSIS In the 1970s, Om, an aspiring actor, … Read more
The next Global Cult Cinema screening is the kung-fu classic that made Bruce Lee famous. The Big Boss Wei Lo, Hong Kong, 1971, 1h 40m Introduced by Martin Johnson, UNC-Chapel Hill FILM SYNOPSIS Cheng, played by Bruce Lee, is a … Read more
Few countries have been shaped by war as much as Russia. War, in many ways, is the burden of Russian history. Not surprisingly, Russian cinema (Soviet and post-Soviet) offers some of the most profound representations of war in the history … Read more
