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  • Film Screening with Raed Rafei – Tripoli: A Tale of Three Cities

    Communications 150, Studio C

    Pre-Screening Reception: 5:30-7pm, Communications 139 Film Screening:  7-8:30, Communications, Studio C While living abroad, a filmmaker returns to Tripoli, Lebanon, to confront a hometown that once rejected him as a queer child. With a microphone in hand, he walks around coffee shops, public squares, and a park to ask the city's inhabitants about their cultural […]

  • Dolly Kikon and Raja GuhaThakurta – Shadow Indigenous Worlds

    Communications 150, Studio C

    Shadow Indigenous Worlds (SIW) is a global initiative that highlights Indigenous worldviews of inquiry. By focusing on researchers, practitioners, and artists at work (in the field, studio, and classroom), it invites the audience to participate and reflect on the meaning of knowledge, theory, pedagogy, and social change. SIW is a student-focused program and highlights the […]

  • Film Screening – Environmental Crisis in Gabes: Agriculture and Revolt in Tunisia

    Communications 150, Studio C

    Film Screening and Discussion:  5:30-7pm, Communications (Studio C) Reception:  7-8:30pm, Communications 139 Gabes Labess (All is well in Gabes) questions current development models by focusing on the Oasis of Gabes, the only coastal oasis in the world. What was once considered "The Paradise of the World" has been transformed into an economic, social, and ecological […]

  • A group of six LP (little people) performers regard their paper body cut outs on the wall.

    Film Screening with Julie Wyman – The Tallest Dwarf

    Communications 150, Studio C

    The Tallest Dwarf charts Julie Wyman’s quest to find her place within the little people (LP) community at a moment when dwarf identity is poised to radically change. Wyman’s work engages issues of embodiment, body image, and the possibilities and problematics of media spectatorship—all informed by her experience of living with hypochondroplasia dwarfism. Julie Wyman […]

  • Traveling Film Southasia – Film Screening Festival Launch

    Communications 150, Studio C

    Join the Center for South Asian Studies (CSAS) for a celebratory film screening event to launch Travelling Film Southasia, a mobile film festival highlighting 19 exceptional nonfiction productions of the last two years, originally screened at Film Southasia 2024 in Kathmandu. This year’s festival encapsulates a range of experiences on the Subcontinent with films from […]

  • Fanon in Documentary Film: Algerian Legacies

    Communications 150, Studio C

    Film Screening:  5:30-7pm, Communications 150, Studio C Panel Discussion and Audience Q&A:  7-8pm, Communications 150, Studio C Reception:  8-9pm, Communications 139 Marking the centenary of Frantz Fanon’s birth, the Center for Middle East and North Africa is hosting a film screening of True Chronicles of the Blida Joinville Psychiatric Hospital, the recent film by Algerian […]

  • Decolonizing Surfing: A View from Morocco

    Communications 150, Studio C

    Film Screening and Panel Discussion:  5:30-7pm, Studio C Reception:  Communications 139, 7-8pm  Surfing is a sport dear to Santa Cruzians, as the city has branded itself the “Original Surf City USA” for over two decades. Despite the awe-inspiring image of individuals “rid pulses of energy moving through the ocean,” the sport is also embedded in […]

  • The Dawn is Too Far: Stories of Iranian-American Life – Film Screening and Discussion with Co-Director/Executive Producer, Dr. Persis Karim

    Communications 150, Studio C

    Join us for a screening of the film, The Dawn is Too Far: Stories of Iranian-American Life, and a discussion with the film’s Co-Director and Executive Producer, Persis Karim, who will be in conversation with UCSC PhD candidate, Shirin Towfiq. The film shares a multi-generational perspective of those who came to the U.S. as students, […]

  • Public Film Screening and Filmmaker Q&A: A Feeling Greater than Love with Mary Jirmanus Saba

    Communications 150, Studio C

    In her directorial debut, Mary Jirmanus Saba deals with a forgotten revolution, saving from oblivion bloodily suppressed strikes at Lebanese tobacco and chocolate factories. These events from the 1970s, which held the promise of a popular revolution and, with it, of women's emancipation were erased from collective memory by the country’s civil wars. Rich in […]

  • Mania Akbari: A Moon For My Father

    Communications 150, Studio C

    Mania Akbari collaborates with British sculptor Douglas White to coin a tender fusion of language, where a meeting of cinema and sculpture investigates the processes of physical and psychological destruction and renewal. Begun a matter of weeks after first meeting, the film charts a deepening artistic and personal relationship exploring the nature of skin, family, […]

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