10/12/2005
Contact: K.E. Schwab -- 724-738-2199;
e-mail: karl.schwab@sru.edu
SRU INTERNATIONS CLUB PLANS FILMS FROM INDIA,
IRAN, FRANCE, SOUTH AMERICA, JAPAN
SLIPPERY ROCK, Pa.
– The Slippery Rock University Internations Club will
offer a series of international films, including those from India,
Iran, France, South America and Japan, all with English subtitles,
beginning Sunday [Oct. 16]. All films are free and will be shown at
7 p.m.
The series
opening film will be “Code Unknown” (“Code
Inconnu”) by Germany’s Michael Haneke as he follows the
lives of different people living in Paris at 7 p.m., followed by
“Water Drops on Burning Rock” (Tropfen Auf Heisse
Steine”) by Francois Ozon telling the story of an
adult-teenager relationship at 9 p.m. Both films will be shown in
Eisenberg Classroom Building Auditorium.
On Monday [Oct.
17], “Close Up” (“Nema – Ye Nazdik”)
by Iranian filmmaker Abbas Kiarostami. In the work, Ali Sabzian,
pretending to be filmmaker Mohsen Makhmalbaf, enters a financially
stable family in Teheran. Tuesday’s film will be
“Something Happens,” (“Kuch Kuch Hota Hai”)
by director Karan Johar that tells the story of two best friends
who fall in love and offers the typical Indian outlook of love,
marriage, friendship and loyalty. Both films will be shown in
Eisenberg.
The series
moves to Spotts World Culture Building Auditorium on Oct. 19 for
“Peking Opera Express,” by Tsui Hark, offering an
adrenaline-rush masterpiece in a period action comedy that is
hyperactive and ingenious. The film is one of Hong Kong’s key
cinema works. The series concludes with Oct. 17’s
presentation of “City of Gods” (“Cidade de
Deus”) by Frenando Meirelles. Set in Rio de Janeiro the film
tells of a young man who grows up on the streets as an ambitions
photographer.
SRU’s
Internations Club is composed of international and domestic
students attending SRU and is fostered by the university’s
Office of International Services. Films were selected from student
suggestions and based on presenting a festival promoting cultural
diversity and understanding. The series is funded in part by
SRU’s Student Government Association.
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