Film & Media Culture

The Hirschfield International Film Series opens with a selection of shorts from this year’s Sundance Film Festival. For details about each of the 7 films visit here. Free Admission.

Come watch 6 wonderful short films, the output of Advanced Filmmaking, FMMC 0335.

Films by Aylin Atzin, Graydon Hanson, Mathieu Houlier, Kalani Martial, Lauren Sayula, and Max Walters. With the collaboration of Daniela Garcia.

Teenager Owen is just trying to make it through life in the suburbs when his classmate introduces him to a mysterious late-night TV show — a vision of a supernatural world beneath their own. In the pale glow of the television, Owen’s view of reality begins to crack.

USA - 2024 - 100 minutes - Written and Directed by Jane Schoenbrun

Join us outside Dana to celebrate with pizza and popcorn at 6:30 PM.

Watch the trailer here.

HIRSCHFIELD THURSDAYS PRESENTS:

MAMBAR PIERRETTE, a free-spirited seamstress navigates poverty and patriarchy in the Cameroonian city of Douala.

Cameroon/Belgium - 2023 - 93 minutes - A Film by Rosine Mbakam.

Join us outside Dana to celebrate with pizza and popcorn at 6:30 PM.

Watch the trailer HERE
Co-Sponsored by the Hirschfield Film Endowment

Come join us watch Julio Torres’ genius film Problemista.

Alejandro is an aspiring toy designer who’s struggling to bring his unusual ideas to life in New York City. As time on his work visa runs out, a job assisting an art world outcast becomes his only hope to stay in the country and realize his dream.

HIRSCHFIELD THURSDAYS PRESENTS: A WOLFPACK CALLED ERNESTO.

Mexican filmmaker Everardo González brings us inside the chilling world of Ernesto, an amalgam of various teenage boys, who, in choosing a gun and a life of organized crime, becomes both victim and perpetrator.

Mexico, France - 2023 - 81 minutes.

DIRECTOR EVERARDO GONZALEZ will be with us for a Q&A after the screening.

Our unique once-a-month event. Join us outside Dana to celebrate with pizza and popcorn at 6:30 PM

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The History of Tenryumura: A documentary on the World War II history of a small village in the mountains of Nagano Prefecture, Japan and how one community reckons with a significant, tragic, and painful segment of its past. The screening will be followed by a reception and Q&A with village leaders, the documentarians, and student translators. Japanese with subtitles.

Thesis presentations from six graduating seniors.

Hirschfield Thursdays presents: The Zone of Interest.

The commandant of Auschwitz, Rudolf Höss, and his wife Hedwig, strive to build a dream life for their family in a house and garden next to the camp.

Directed by Jonathan Glazer - US, UK, Poland - 105 minutes.

Our unique once-a-month event. Join us outside Dana to celebrate with pizza and popcorn at 6:30 PM

OFFICIAL TRAILER

This Emmy and Peabody award winning film is the deeply personal story of the destruction of a modern European city, told and filmed by the people of Mariupol, Ukraine. It is a story of war crimes and suffering but also a story of amazing courage, incredible daring in escape and of undaunted spirit.

Sponsored by The Hirschfield Film Endowment, and the Winter Term Enrichment Fund