Film & Media Culture

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!

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

7 films about love, fear and growing up

A screening of senior projects produced by Film and Media Culture majors. Expect a variety of media modes and styles. A Film and Media Culture Department event. Free.

This event is expected to reach capacity. Arrive early for seating.

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 a student-organized screening of peer-made video works and films! Do you have a video work or a film you created for or outside of class that you’d like to share, but don’t have a place to screen it? For submissions visit go/studentfilmshowcase. The event will happen on Tuesday, December 9th from 7:00-9:00pm in Axinn 232. Some light snacks will be provided.

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.

Le salaire de la peur (Wages of Fear), dir. Henri-Georges Clouzot, 1953

Le Règne Animal (The Animal Kingdom), dir. Thomas Cailley, 2023

Orlando : ma biographie politique (Orlando, My Political Biography), dir. Paul. B. Preciado, 2023

Banel & Adama, dir. Ramata-Toulaye Sy, 2023