Extraordinary international and independent films.
Free and open to the public.
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Some of the works in this series may be inappropriate for children; many titles are unrated or have not been rated at the time of the screening.
Hirschfield is back!
Join us for our unique once-a-month event, at Dana Auditorium.
In this 2025 Tunisian film directed by Kaouther Ben Hania, Red Crescent volunteers receive an emergency call. A 6-year old girl is trapped in a car under IDF fire in Gaza, pleading for rescue. While trying to keep her on the line, they do everything they can to get an ambulance to her.
Arrive early at 6:30pm for free pizza, popcorn, and snacks!
Dana Auditorium (Sunderland Language Center)
Open to the Public
Come at 6:30pm for free pizza, popcorn, and snacks!
“No Other Choice”
directed by Park Chan-wook, 2025
After being unemployed for several years, a man devises a unique plan to secure a new job: eliminate his competition.
“A masterful work of cinema which might well be Chan-wook’s masterpiece.” - Time Out
“A stunningly energetic and endlessly creative film that delights the mind and the eyes.” - Next Best Picture
“Bleak, brilliant, and mordantly hilarious.” - Indiewire
Dana Auditorium (Sunderland Language Center)
Open to the Public
Join us for pizza & popcorn at 6:30 PM.
“Memory of Princess Mumbi” directed by Damien Hauser, 2025.
In 2093, filmmaker Kuve visits Umata to document life after a war banned modern tech. Local filmmaker Mumbi challenges him to create without AI, leading him to discover beauty in life’s simple moments.
Dana Auditorium (Sunderland Language Center)
Open to the Public
November 13th, 7pm, Dana Auditorium
Come at 6:30pm for free pizza, popcorn, and snacks!
“It Was Just An Accident”
directed by Jafar Panahi, 2025
Dana Auditorium (Sunderland Language Center)
Open to the Public
“One of del Toro’s finest, this is epic-scale storytelling of uncommon beauty, feeling and artistry.” - The Hollywood Reporter.
Oscar-winning director Guillermo del Toro adapts Mary Shelley’s classic tale of Victor Frankenstein, a brilliant but egotistical scientist who brings a creature to life in a monstrous experiment that ultimately leads to the undoing of both the creator and his tragic creation.
Join us outside Dana to celebrate with pizza and popcorn at 6:30 PM
Dana Auditorium (Sunderland Language Center)
Open to the Public
Come at 4:30 pm for pizza and snacks!
Q&A with co-director Michael T. Workman and Middlebury Professors
“The Encampments”
directed by Kei Pritsker and Michael T.
Axinn Center 232
Closed to the Public
“Love”
Norway, 2024
In defiance of societal norms, a pragmatic doctor and a compassionate nurse seek intimacy beyond the bounds of conventional relationships.
Written and directed by Dag Johan Haugerud.
Sponsored by the Hirschfield Film Endowment and the Film and Media Culture Department.
Dana Auditorium (Sunderland Language Center)
Open to the Public
Betania
Brazil, 2024
Written and directed by Marcelo Botta
This remarkable debut film is set in the north-east of Brazil, in a breathtaking scenery defined by endless sand dunes, and features mostly non-professional actors. The protagonist, Betania, has to move away from her community upon the death of her husband - and this disruption brings up all flavors of conflict, from the intra-familial struggles to the global issues of overtourism and ecological sustainability.
Dana Auditorium (Sunderland Language Center)
Open to the Public
No Other Land, 2024. Written, directed, produced and edited by Yuval Abraham, Basel Adra, Hamdan Ballal, Rachel Szor.
For half a decade, Basel Adra, a Palestinian activist, films his community of Masafer Yatta being destroyed by Israeli occupation, as he builds an unlikely alliance with an Israeli journalist who wants to join his fight. Together, as part of a Palestinian-Israeli filmmaking collective, they created one of the most intense films of last year.
Dana Auditorium (Sunderland Language Center)
Open to the Public
In this 2025 Ukrainian documentary directed by Kateryna Gornostai, it has been three years since Russia’s invasion. Despite the war, school life continues in Ukraine, with students and teachers striving to continue learning even under constant threat.
Arrive early at 6:30pm for free pizza, popcorn, and snacks!
“A profound meditation on the resilience of the human spirit within a fractured reality…A haunting, luminous record of a generation being forged in the dark.” - Gazettely
Dana Auditorium (Sunderland Language Center)
Open to the Public
