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International Film Festival
UNC Charlotte
Monsieur Lazhar
Tuesday, March 10, 3:30 pm
Student Union Movie TheaterMain Campus
Director Philippe FalardeauCanada, 2011, 94 min
In French, English, Arabic with English subtitles
“A classroom is a place of friendship, of work, of courtesy, a place of life.”
M. Lazhar earns the respect and trust of his pupils, some of them the children of
immigrants or, like this devoted instructor, recent arrivals to Quebec. As the reasons for M. Lazhar’s immigration to Canada from Algeria are made clear,
so, too is his rather unconventional method for applying for the teaching
position.
International Film Festival
UNC Charlotte
La Yuma
Tuesday, March 105:00 pm
Burson 110 UNC Charlotte Main Campus
Director Florence Jaugey
Nicaragua, 2011, 91 min
In Spanish with English subtitles
Nicaragua’s first full-length feature in 20 years, La Yuma tells the story of a young woman who dreams of transcending her
bleak life in the slums of Managua by becoming a boxer.
International Film Festival UNC Charlotte
归途列车 / Last Train Home
Wednesday, March 11, 7:00 pm
Student Union Movie Theater UNC Charlotte Main Campus
Director Lixin FanChina, 2010, 85 min
In Chinese, Sichuan dialect, with English subtitles
Every spring, China’s cities are plunged into chaos as 130 million migrant workers journey
to their home villages for the New Year’s holiday. This mass exodus is the world’s
largest human migration—an epic spectacle that reveals a country tragically caught
between its rural past and industrial future.
International Film Festival UNC Charlotte
Un Cuento Chino/Chinese Take-Away
Saturday, March 14, 1:00pm
UNC Charlotte Center City Amphitheater
Director Sebastián BorenszteinArgentina, Spain, 2012, 98 min
In Spanish with English subtitles
Roberto, a gruff, anti-social loner, lords over his tiny hardware shop in Buenos Aires with a
meticulous sense of control and routine, barely allowing for the slightest of customer foibles. After a chance encounter with Jun, a Chinese man who has arrived in Argentina looking for his only living relative, Roberto takes him in.
International Film Festival UNC Charlotte
Quai d’Orsay/ The French Minister
Saturday, March 14 3:00pm
Charlotte Center City Lecture Hall
Director: Bertrand TavernierFrance, 2013, 113 min
In French with English subtitles
Quai d’Orsay is a razor-sharp satire of politics, both those enacted on the
world stage and within the corridors of workplaces.
International Film Festival UNC Charlotte
El Regreso / The Return
Saturday, March 143:00pm
Charlotte Center City Amphitheater
Director: Hernán Jiménez Costa Rica, 2012, 95 min.
After living 10 years in New York, 30-year-old Antonio returns to San José, where he is forced to deal with the realities he ran away
from.
International Film Festival UNC Charlotte
Ernest et Célestine
Saturday, March 14, 1:00 pm
Charlotte Center City Lecture Hall
Directors: Stéphane Aubier, Vincent Patar, Benjamin Renner
France, 2012, 80 minIn French with English subtitles
In an unnamed French city, two different realms of sworn enemies
exist: Above ground live bears; below it reside mice. Celestine, a wee mouse orphan who is being
trained for a career in dentistry but dreams of being an artist instead,
meets a kindred spirit in adult Ernest, an ursine musician whom she
convinces not to eat her.
International Film Festival
UNC Charlotte
Hamoun/ هامونMonday, March 16, 7:00 pm
McKnight Hall, Main Campus
Director: Dariush MehrjuiIran, 1990, 122 min.
Farsi with English subtitles
Hamoun’s wife is leaving him. He is also unsuccessfully trying to finish his Ph.D. thesis. He is forced to reexamine
his life. In a series of flashbacks and dreams, Hamoun tries to figure out what
he did wrong.
International Film Festival
UNC Charlotte
Arrugas/Wrinkles
Tuesday, March 175:00pm
Burson 110, Main Campus
Director: Ignacio FerrerasSpain, 2014, 89 min
In Spanish with English subtitles
When former bank manager Emilio’s family sends him to a retirement home, his new roommate is a wily wheeler-dealer named
Miguel who cheerfully swindles small amounts of cash from the more disoriented
residents but is also full of handy insider tips that are crucial to survival. An eccentric cast of characters rebel against institutional
authority.
International Film Festival UNC Charlotte
Oh Boy (A Coffee in Berlin)
Wednesday, March 185:00pm
Student Union Movie TheaterUNC Charlotte Main Campus
Director: Jan Ole GersterGermany, 2012, 83 min
In German with English subtitles
Niko, a twenty-something college dropout, is going nowhere fast. One
fateful day, through a series of absurdly amusing encounters, everything
changes: his girlfriend dumps him, his father cuts off his allowance, and a
strange psychiatrist dubiously confirms his ‘emotional imbalance’.
International Film Festival UNC Charlotte
Ernest et Célestine
Wednesday, March 18, 7:00 pm
Student Union Movie TheaterMain campus
Directors: Stéphane Aubier, Vincent Patar, Benjamin Renner
France, 2012, 80 minIn French with English subtitles
In an unnamed French city, two different realms of sworn enemies exist: Above
ground live bears; below it reside mice. Celestine, a wee mouse orphan who is
being trained for a career in dentistry but dreams of being an artist instead, meets a kindred spirit in adult Ernest, an ursine musician whom she convinces not to eat
her.
International Film Festival
UNC CharlotteO homem que copiavaThe Man Who Copied
Thursday, March 19, 5:00pm
UNC Charlotte Main Campus
CHHS 145
Director Jorge Furtado
Brazil, 2003, 124 min
Portuguese with English subtitles
André, a poor guy who lives in south Brazil, falls in love with Sílvia, a neighbor on whom he spies everyday with a pair of binoculars. He works as a photocopy
machine operator in a convenience store and he earns a very low salary. In order to
get closer to her, he starts making copies of bills to have money to ask her out.
International Film Festival
UNC Charlotte
Arrugas/Wrinkles
Saturday, March 21,1:00pm
Charlotte Center City Amphitheater
Director: Ignacio FerrerasSpain, 2014, 89 min
In Spanish with English subtitles
When former bank manager Emilio’s family sends him to a retirement home, his new roommate is a wily wheeler-dealer named
Miguel who cheerfully swindles small amounts of cash from the more disoriented
residents but is also full of handy insider tips that are crucial to survival. An eccentric cast
of characters rebel against institutional authority.
International Film Festival
UNC Charlotte
El Regreso / The Return
Saturday, March 21, 3:00pm
Charlotte Center City Amphitheater
Director: Hernán Jiménez Costa Rica, 2012, 95 min.
After living 10 years in New York, 30-year-old Antonio returns to San José, where he is forced to deal with the
realities he ran away from.
International Film Festival UNC Charlotte
Poulet aux prunes Chicken with Plums
Monday March 23, 5:00pm
McKnight Hall, Main Campus
Directors: Marjane Satrapi and Vincent Paronnaud
Iran/France, 2011, 93 minIn French with English subtitles
As Nasser-Ali takes to his bed, where he plans to expire, the film recalls the source of his sorrow, stretching all the way back to his
childhood. The talented musician’s unhappy marriage to schoolteacher Faringuisse is
recounted, as well as his distant relationship to his two young children (whose own fates are
presented in droll flash-forward). Soon the real reason for Nasser-Ali’s anguish becomes clear: the rupture of his first—and only—great love affair, with a beautiful woman called Irâne.
International Film Festival UNC Charlotte
Who Is Dayani Cristal?¿Quién es Dayani Cristal?
Tuesday, March 24, 5:00pm
CHHS 145, Main Campus
Director: Marc SilverMexico, USA, 2014, 85 min
In English and Spanish with English subtitles
Deep in the sun-blistered Sonora desert beneath a cicada tree, Arizona border police discover a decomposing male body. Lifting a
tattered T-shirt they expose a tattoo that reads “Dayani Cristal.” Who is this person? What brought him here? How did he die?
And who—or what—is Dayani Cristal?
International Film Festival UNC Charlotte
Quai d’Orsay/ The French Minister
Wednesday, March 25 3:00pm
Student Union Movie TheaterMain Campus
Director: Bertrand TavernierFrance, 2013, 113 min
In French with English subtitles
Quai d’Orsay is a razor-sharp satire of politics, both those enacted on the
world stage and within the corridors of workplaces.
International Film Festival UNC Charlotte
Tale of IyaIya Monogatari:
Okunohito
Wednesday, March 255:30 pm
Student Union Movie TheaterMain Campus
Director Tsuta Tetsuichiro
Japan, 2013, 169 minsIn Japanese with English subtitles
Tsuta Tetsuichiro, the director, writer, and editor of The Tale of Iya, will attend the
screening!
Haruna and her grandfather (played by the legendary dancer-actor Tanaka Min) live in a hermetic world of rural Tokushima, growing
their own food and hunting in the forest. Change arrives with a young man from Tokyo, just as Haruna must decide whether to stay in
the village or move to the city.
International Film Festival UNC Charlotte
Viva la libertà Long Live Freedom
Sunday, March 29
5:30pm
UNC Charlotte Center City
Director Roberto AndòItaly, 2013, 94 min.
In Italian with English subtitles
Dramedy based on a novel by Roberto AndòEnrico, the leader of Italy’s opposition party,
suddenly drops out of sight; his team decides to replace him temporarily with
Ernani, his bipolar identical twin, fresh from the madhouse. Unexpectedly, Ernani takes
over his brother’s political role and becomes very popular.
International Film Festival UNC Charlotte
Горько/Kiss them all Tuesday, March 31, 5:00 pm
Student Union Movie Theater, UNC Charlotte Main Campus
Director: Zhora KryzhovnikovRussia, 2013, 100 min
In Russian with English subtitles
Progressive and talented Natasha and Roma dream of a European wedding on the beach, but Natasha’s stepfather has other ideas. As a city manager, he thinks the festivities
should be a springboard for his own career and tries to arrange everything accordingly. An evening in a restaurant complete with all of the boring traditions is prepared for
the young couple. Finding themselves unable to argue, the pair decides to have their dream wedding anyway, but to
keep it secret from their conservative relatives.
International Film Festival UNC Charlotte
Shorts from Russia and UNC Charlotte
Wednesday, April 1, 2:30 pm
Student Union Movie Theater, UNC Charlotte Main
Campus
Three different stories and tree different outlooks.
“Not a word about your mom” follows the steps of a young sophisticated woman who is stuck with the
daughter pattern, hunted by the vivid presence of her deceased mother.
“To leave or not to leave” catches a talented scientist right before he is ready to leave his old life in Russia and
start a new one in the USA.
The film “By accident” is a dark comedy which lets us spend new year’s eve with a Russian family who eats,
drinks, toasts, watches TV and commits murder with the same nonchalant attitude.
To leave or not to leave Валить нельзя остаться
Not a word about your mother Ни слова о твоей
матери
By accident (Unintentionally)
Нечаянно
International Film Festival UNC Charlotte
Mauvais SangThe Night is Young
Wednesday, April 1, 5:00pm
Student Union Movie Theater, UNC Charlotte Main Campus
Director Leos CaraxFrance, 1986 & 2013, 105 minIn French with English subtitles
Alex, a conjuror and card sharp, teams up with gangster Marc (Michel
Piccoli). All-consuming passion is ignited once Alex sees Anna (Juliette Binoche) on a bus, only to discover
that she is Marc’s lover.
International Film Festival UNC Charlotte
L’image manquante/The Missing
Picture
Tuesday April 2, 2:00 pm
COED 010, Main Campus
Director Rithy PanhFrance, Cambodia, 2013, 92 minIn French with English subtitles
Rithy Panh ingeniously uses carved and painted figures to represent himself and his family (and many others), who had to flee Phnom
Penh for agricultural labor camps on April 17, 1975, the day that the Khmer Rouge seized Cambodia’s
capital city.
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International Film Festival UNC Charlotte
Une bouteille à la merA Bottle in the Gaza
Sea
Tuesday April 2, 6:00pm
Main Campus, COED 010
Director Thierry BinistiIsrael / France, 2012, 99 min
In Hebrew, Arabic, French with English subtitles
Tal is a 17-year-old Frenchwoman who has settled in Jerusalem with her family. She writes a letter expressing her refusal to
accept that only hatred can reign between Israelis and Palestinians. She slips the letter into a bottle, and her brother throws it into the sea near Gaza. A few weeks later, Tal receives a response from a mysterious “Gazaman,” a young Palestinian named
Naim.
Sponsored by the Charlotte Jewish Film Festival
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