Hirschfield International Film Series

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

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.

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

“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

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.

“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.

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.

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.

1990s Hungary. The iron curtain has fallen, and Hungarians are free to travel Europe. But travel is expensive. A taste of freedom, but not enough to truly revel in it. 

So, three Hungarian teens beat the system. Wild, fluid, and surreal animation tells the true story of Ákos, Laci and Petya as they begin to forge international train tickets that are easily manipulated due to an easy-to-remove ink: Pelican Blue. Matters turn dangerous for the youngsters when they unwittingly establish an underground crime syndicate and outrun the slow churn of the Hungarian Police. Watch an unforgettable tale of the battle between the law and the spirit of youth. 

Come join us in Dana Auditorium @ 7 PM for an unforgettable experience, pizza, and the chance to win a prize! (Pizza served at 6:30). 

“Pelikan Blue is the type of film that leaves a permanent smile on the viewer’s face” - Cineeuropa

“Transcends the medium of documentary” - Max Gibson ’25

“Had an absolute ball watching this” - Mu Paw ‘25

“One of the most engaging and interesting movies Hirschfield has seen” - Kalani Martial ‘25

“Visually inventive and completely immersive” - Graydon Hanson ‘25

“I am going to name my first-born child Pelikan Blue” - Ross Davis ‘27