Film & Media Culture FMMC

Hirschfield International Film Series: Apollo 11

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Film & Media Culture
Crafted from a newly discovered trove of 65mm footage, and more than 11,000 hours of uncatalogued audio recordings, Apollo 11 takes us straight to the heart of NASA’s most celebrated mission—the one that first put men on the moon, and forever made Neil Armstrong and Buzz Aldrin into household names. Immersed in the perspectives of the astronauts, the team in Mission Control, and the millions of spectators on the ground, we vividly experience those momentous days and hours in 1969 when humankind took a giant leap into the future. (1h 33min). Free.

Dana Auditorium (Sunderland Language Center)

Open to the Public

Hirschfield International Film Series: Memoir of

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Film & Media Culture
In Emmanuel Finkiel’s haunting adaptation of Marguerite Duras’s semi-autobiographical novel, The War: A Memoir, the famed author (Mélanie Thierry) recounts an emotionally complex story of love, loss, and perseverance against a backdrop of wartime intrigue in 1944 Nazi-occupied France. Using subtly expressionistic imagery and voiceover passages of Duras’s writing, Finkiel evokes the inner world of one of the 20th century’s most revolutionary writers. In French with English subtitles. (2h 07min). Free.

Dana Auditorium (Sunderland Language Center)

Open to the Public

Hirschfield International Film Series: The 20th Annual Animation Show of Shows

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Film & Media Culture
Thought-provoking, poignant, and very funny animated shorts from around the world. In a year when the best and worst of human nature has been on constant display, the works in this year’s show remind us of both the universality of shared ideals, as well as the diverse challenges we face. The show has a running time of 98 minutes and includes 15 films, four of which have qualified for Academy Award® consideration. Free.

Dana Auditorium (Sunderland Language Center)

Open to the Public

Hirschfield International Film Series: Cold War

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Film & Media Culture
Cold War is a passionate love story between a man and a woman who meet in the ruins of post-war Poland. With vastly different backgrounds and temperaments, they are fatefully mismatched and yet condemned to each other. Set against the background of the Cold War in 1950s Poland, Berlin, Yugoslavia and Paris, it’s the tale of a couple separated by politics, character flaws and unfortunate twists of fate — an impossible love story in impossible times. In Polish, French, German, Russian, Italian, and Croatian with English subtitles. (1h 28min). Free.

Dana Auditorium (Sunderland Language Center)

Open to the Public

Hirschfield International Film Series: Dogman

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Film & Media Culture
In a seaside village on the outskirts of an Italian city, where the only law seems to be survival of the fittest, Marcello is a slight, mild-mannered man who divides his days between working at his modest dog grooming salon, caring for his daughter Alida, and being coerced into the petty criminal schemes of the local bully Simoncino, an ex-boxer who terrorizes the neighborhood. When Simoncino’s abuse finally brings Marcello to a breaking point, he decides to stand up for his own dignity through an act of vengeance, with unintended consequences. In Italian with English subtitles.

Dana Auditorium (Sunderland Language Center)

Open to the Public

Hirschfield International Film Series: Ash Is Purest White

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Film & Media Culture
Qiao is in love with Bin, a local mobster. During a fight between rival gangs, she fires a gun to protect him. Qiao gets five years in prison for this act of loyalty. Upon her release, she goes looking for Bin to pick up where they left off. In Chinese and Mandarin with English subtitles. (2h 17min). Free.

Dana Auditorium (Sunderland Language Center)

Open to the Public

Hirschfield International Film Series - Apollo 11

Sponsored by:
Film & Media Culture
Crafted from a newly discovered trove of 65mm footage, and more than 11,000 hours of uncatalogued audio recordings, Apollo 11 takes us straight to the heart of NASA’s most celebrated mission—the one that first put men on the moon, and forever made Neil Armstrong and Buzz Aldrin into household names. Immersed in the perspectives of the astronauts, the team in Mission Control, and the millions of spectators on the ground, we vividly experience those momentous days and hours in 1969 when humankind took a giant leap into the future. (1h 33min). Free.

Dana Auditorium (Sunderland Language Center)

Open to the Public

Hirschfield International Film Series: Memoir of War

Sponsored by:
Film & Media Culture
In Emmanuel Finkiel’s haunting adaptation of Marguerite Duras’s semi-autobiographical novel, The War: A Memoir, the famed author (Mélanie Thierry) recounts an emotionally complex story of love, loss, and perseverance against a backdrop of wartime intrigue in 1944 Nazi-occupied France. Using subtly expressionistic imagery and voiceover passages of Duras’s writing, Finkiel evokes the inner world of one of the 20th century’s most revolutionary writers. In French with English subtitles. (2h 07min). Free.

Dana Auditorium (Sunderland Language Center)

Open to the Public

Hirschfield International Film Series: The 20th Annual Animation Show of Shows

Sponsored by:
Film & Media Culture
Thought-provoking, poignant, and very funny animated shorts from around the world. In a year when the best and worst of human nature has been on constant display, the works in this year’s show remind us of both the universality of shared ideals, as well as the diverse challenges we face. The show has a running time of 98 minutes and includes 15 films, four of which have qualified for Academy Award® consideration. Free

Dana Auditorium (Sunderland Language Center)

Open to the Public

Hirschfield International Film Series: Cold War

Sponsored by:
Film & Media Culture
Cold War is a passionate love story between a man and a woman who meet in the ruins of post-war Poland. With vastly different backgrounds and temperaments, they are fatefully mismatched and yet condemned to each other. Set against the background of the Cold War in 1950s Poland, Berlin, Yugoslavia and Paris, it’s the tale of a couple separated by politics, character flaws and unfortunate twists of fate — an impossible love story in impossible times. In Polish, French, German, Russian, Italian, and Croatian with English subtitles. (1h 28min). Free.

Dana Auditorium (Sunderland Language Center)

Open to the Public