World Cinema Festival 2012
World Cinema Festival 2012
February 20, 2012 - February 24, 2012
Start Time: 
7:00 PM
End Time: 
9:00 PM
Student Center- Vander Vennet Theatre
Free admission

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Monday, February 20

Monsoon Wedding

Director: Mira Nair

Country: India

Year: 2001

Language: English

Description: A stressed father, a bride-to-be with a secret, a smitten event planner, and relatives from around the world create much ado about the preparations for an arranged marriage in India.

 

Tuesday, February 21

In the Mood for Love (Fa yeung nin wa)

Director: Kar Wai Wong

Country: Hong Kong (Special Administrative Region of the People's Republic of China)

Year: 2000

Language: Mandarin/Cantonese

Description: A man and a woman move in to neighboring Hong Kong apartments and form a bond when they both suspect their spouses of extra-marital activities.

 

Wednesday, February 22

Biutiful

Director: Alejandro González Iñárritu

Country: Spain

Year: 2010

Language: Spanish

Description: This is the story of Uxbal, a man living in this world, but able to see his death, which guides his every move.

 

Thursday, February 23

Certified Copy (Copie Conforme)

Director: Abbas Kiarostami

Country: Italy

Year: 2010

Language: Multiple languages

Description: In Tuscany to promote his latest book, a middle-aged British writer meets a French woman who leads him to the village of Lucignano. While there, a chance question reveals something deeper.

 

Friday, February 24

Of Gods and Men (Des Hommes et des dieux)

Director: Xavier Beauvois

Country: Algeria

Year: 2010

Language: French

Description: Under threat by fundamentalist terrorists, a group of Trappist monks stationed with an impoverished Algerian community must decide whether to leave or stay.