Cinema Series with Shelly Isaacs
NOTE: This series includes four (4) live, virtual post-discussions for the term. If you will not be able to attend all discussions, we send the video recording of the session, so you don't miss the conversation!
This course will take place on 4 THURSDAYS: May 8, 15, 22, 29
May 8
THE SOURCE – 2011 -FRANCE, BELGIUM, ITALY - Amazon prime, Kanopy
Influenced by a Greek classic play, In a remote and primitive patriarchal village between the North of Africa and the Middle East, during a massive drought a battle of the sexes ensues when the women threaten to withhold favors if the men refuse to fetch water from the remote well.
May 15
VIVA –2015 – CUBA - Amazon, Hoopla and Roku
A young man does make up for a troupe of drag performers in Havana but dreams of becoming a performer himself. When he finally gets his chance to be onstage, a stranger emerges from the crowd and punches him in the face. As a father who reappears after 15 years and his son clash over their opposing expectations of each other, Viva becomes a love story as the men struggle to understand one another and become a family again.
May 22
HOUSEKEEPING FOR BEGINNERS – 2023 – NORTH MACEDONIA - Amazon prime
In a story exploring the universal truths of family, both the ones we're born into and the ones we find for ourselves. And Dita, who never wanted to be a mother, finds herself in over her head when circumstances force her to raise her girlfriend's two daughters, a tiny troublemaker and a rebellious teen..
May 29
LUNANA: A YAK IN THE CLASSROOM – 2019 - NEPAL - Amazon, Hoopla, Kanopy, Roku
In Bhutan’s first Oscar nominated film, a young teacher who shirks his duties while dreaming of pursuing a singing career in Australia, is reprimanded, and sent to teach in the remotest school in the world, in the glacial Himalayas. And he is the one who will learn an important lesson
Influenced by a Greek classic play, In a remote and primitive patriarchal village between the North of Africa and the Middle East, during a massive drought a battle of the sexes ensues when the women threaten to withhold favors if the men refuse to fetch water from the remote well.