Middlebury's International Film Festival is like no other film series. For nine consecutive Saturdays starting in June, the Language Schools present a major foreign film on the big screen in Dana Auditorium.
What makes the festival different is language, ten of them to be exact. One film is shown in each of the Language Schools' ten languages—Arabic (at our Mills site only), Chinese, French, German, Hebrew, Italian, Japanese, Portuguese, Russian, and Spanish—and all of the films are shown with English subtitles. The International Film Festival is free of charge.
Screenings are at 7:00 p.m. and 9:30 p.m. in Dana Auditorium
The 2009 International Film Festival
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June 13, 2009 – Chinese
PING GUO (Lost in Beijing)
Directed by Yu Li
China, 2007
Color, 112 min., Chinese with English subtitles
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June 20, 2009 – Japanese
Tony Takitani
Directed by Jun Ichikawa
Japan, 2005
Color, 76 min., Japanese with English subtitles
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June 27, 2009 – Russian
Koktebel (Roads to Koktebel)
Codirected by Boris Khlebnikov and Alexei Popogrebsky
Russia, 2003
Color, 100 min., Russian with English subtitles
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July 4, 2009 – French
Entre les murs (The Class)
Directed by Laurent Cantet
France, 2008
Color, 128 min., French with English subtitles
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July 11, 2009 – German
Vier Minuten (Four Minutes)
Directed by Chris Kraus
Germany, 2006
Color, 112 min., German with English subtitles
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July 18, 2009 – Italian
Il divo: La straordinaria vita di Giulio Andreotti (Il Divo)
Directed by Paolo Sorrentino
Italy/France, 2008
Color/Black and White, 110 min. Italian with English subtitles
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July 25, 2009 – Spanish
Polvo nuestro que estás en los cielos
(Masangeles)
Directed by Beatriz Flores Silva
Uruguay, 2008
Color, 126 min., Spanish with English subtitles
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August 1, 2009 – Portuguese
Oriundi
Directed by Ricardo Bravo
Brazil, 1999
Color, 97 min., Portuguese with English subtitles
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August 8, 2009 – Hebrew
Vals Im Bashir (Waltz with Bashir)
Directed by Ari Folman
Israel, 2008
Color, 90 min., Hebrew with English subtitles
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