Film Series, Integrating Refugees: Understanding a Global Question
This event is a mini film series of five films (documentary and features) that engage questions and issues surrounding migration, identity and cultural integration. Through a focus on individual stories and events from Germany, Russia, China, Italy and Latin America, the series will offer a comparative exploration of global sociopolitical questions about refugees with an eye to humanizing those questions and seeing through them different national approaches to refugees.
Schedule
Germany: "Wir sind jung. Wir sind stark" (2014)
"We are Young. We are Strong"
4:30 p.m. Thursday, Oct. 12, Wrigley Hall, room 201
Director: Burhan Qurbani
Introduced by: Daniel Gil llan, German studies, film and media studies
Russia: "Другое небо" (2010)
"Another Sky"
4:30 p.m. Thursday, Oct. 19, Wrigley Hall, room 201
Director: Dmitrii Mamuliia
Introduced by: Ana Hedberg Olenina, Russian film and media studies
China: "二十四城记" (2008)
"24 City"
4:30 p.m. Thursday, Oct. 26, Wrigley Hall, room 201
Director: Jia Zhangke
Introduced by: Angie Chau, Chinese
Italy: "18 IUS Soli: Il Dritto di Essere Italiani" (2011)
"18 IUS Soli: The Strange Case of Citizenship in Modern Italy"
Thursday, 4:30 p.m. Nov. 2, Wrigley Hall, room 201
Director: Fred Kuwornu
Introduced by: Juliann Vitullo, Italian
Post-screening discussion with filmmaker Fred Kuwornu
Mexico: "La Jaula de Oro" (2013)
"Golden Dream"
4:30 p.m. Thursday, Nov. 9, Wrigley Hall, room 201
Director: Diego Quemada-Díez
Introduced by: Cynthia Tompkins, Spanish/Latin American studies