Williamstown, MA - Images Cinema hosts a free film and lecture series Tracing Migration in Film and Art. This series on global migration aims to trace shifting issues of race, gender, identity and invisibility through diverse contexts and between disparate spaces such as Senegal and the United States, Morocco and Spain, Austria and the Ukraine. Films will be introduced by Williams College faculty. This is a rare opportunity to see foreign films that have only been screened in the US on the festival circuit in major cities.
Sunday, February 3, 1pm: Import/Export
Directed by Ulrich Seidl; 2 hours 15 minutes; In German with English subtitles; Contains explicit sexual material; Introduction by Helga Druxes
Film preceded with Inaugural talk by scholar Jessie Labov, "How Do We Get There From Here? European Identity and Migration through Cinema"
Olga and Paul. Both are looking for work, a new beginning, an existence, life: Olga, who comes from the Eastern part of Europe, where unremitting poverty is the order of the day. Paul, who comes from the Western part, where unemployment means not hunger, but a crisis of meaning and sense of uselessness. Both are struggling to believe in themselves, to find a meaning in life. In both the West and East.
Monday, February 11, 7pm: Once You've Been Born You Can No Longer Hide
Directed by Marco Tullio Giordana; 1 hour 55 minutes; In Italian with English subtitles; Introduction by Berta Jottar
Monday, February 18, 7 pm: Poniente
Directed by Chus Gutiérrez; 1 hour 37 minutes; In Arabic & Spanish with English subtitles; Introduction by Armando Vargas
Monday, February 25, 7 pm: Little Senegal
Directed by Rachid Bouchareb; 1 hour 37 minutes; In French and English with English subtitles; Introduction by Kashia Pieprzak
This series is presented by the Williams College Department of Foreign Languages
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