The Ackland Film Forum is back! Join the Ackland Art Museum this spring at the Varsity Theater as they view four global cult classics. The first film in the series is Dünyayı Kurtaran Adam (The Man Who Saved the World), an … Read more
MIRROR (ЗЕРКАЛО) Director: Andrei Tarkovsky • Year: 1975 In Russian and Spanish with English subtitles • DCP • 106 minutes New 2K digital restoration A senses-ravishing odyssey through the halls of time and memory, Andrei Tarkovsky’s sublime reflection on 20th century Russian … Read more
On a gray, foggy morning outside a large Polish city, a masseur from the East named Zhenia (Alec Utgoff, Stranger Things) enters the lives of the wealthy residents of a gated community. With his hypnotic presence and quasi-magical abilities, he is … Read more
THE CRANES ARE FLYING (ЛЕТЯТ ЖУРАВЛИ) Director: Mikhail Kalatozov • Year: 1957 In Russian with English subtitles • DCP • 95 minutes New 2K digital restoration Comparable to Gone with the Wind of Soviet Russia—a sensation both at home and abroad that pointed … Read more
The Carolina Women’s Center, Center for Middle East & Islamic Studies, Chapel Hill-Carrboro NAACP and AAUW’s Orange, Durham and Chatham branches will sponsor a screening and panel discussion of The Cave. The powerful new documentary about the Syrian war by Oscar nominee Feras Fayyad (Last Men in Aleppo) tells the story of … Read more
The Ackland Film Forum is a collaboration between the Ackland Art Museum and numerous departments at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill highlighting various aspects of the art of cinema and showcasing the aesthetic power of film. Art … Read more
Inspired by a true story and shot in a real prison, director Mai Masri's 3000 Nights traces a young mother’s journey of hope, resilience and survival against all odds. Accused of helping a teenage boy on the run, newlywed Palestinian schoolteacher … Read more
Inspired by a true story and shot in a real prison, director Mai Masri's 3000 Nights traces a young mother’s journey of hope, resilience and survival against all odds. Accused of helping a teenage boy on the run, newlywed Palestinian schoolteacher … Read more
Made in collaboration with her partner, filmmaker Shoja Azari, director Shirin Neshat’s Women Without Men is an adaptation of the novel by Shahrnush Parsipur, a book banned in Iran by the censors of the Islamic Republic. Both novel and film recount the … Read more
In a documentary with a dash of fiction, we enter the mind of the elderly Hiam, a Palestinian woman from Nazareth. We see her at the hairdresser’s, waxing her upper lip and shuffling her way to bed. The mundanity of … Read more
