Film Screening: 'My Happy Family'

Join us for a screening of "My Happy Family" (2017), directed by Nana Ekvtimishvili and Simon Gross.

In the Georgian capital of Tbilisi, a women decides to move across town — alone. Will her family forgive her? Will she forgive them? Will her decision tear them apart or help them find a way to be together?

The screening will include an introduction by Dr. Irina Levin, postdoctoral fellow for the Melikian Center for Russian, Eurasian and East European Studies.

Irina Levin received her doctorate in anthropology from New York University in 2017 for her PhD thesis, "Uncertain Returns: Citizenship and Law in the Caucasus." Her ethnographic fieldwork was with a forcibly displaced community in Azerbaijan, Georgia, and Turkey. Levin explores contemporary issues of disputed citizenship, legacies of displacement and trauma, and the particular social and political significance of identity documents from the points of view of both states and individuals trying to establish and maintain security in precarious times.

Co-sponsored by the Melikian Center for Russian, Eurasian and East European Studies, the School of International Letters and Cultures, and Barrett, The Honors College.