国际电影系列的剧照

虚拟国际电影系列春季2024

如何参与这个虚拟电影系列:

如何成为一个好妻子- la bonne sampouse |法国| 2020

讨论日期:1月23日

Maintaining a household and stoically submitting to conjugal duty are the skills Paulette Van Der Beck teaches with fervor in her homemakers institute. 当她发现自己成了寡妇,家破人亡时,她的信念就动摇了. Is she rattled by the return of her first love or the wind of freedom in May ’68? 如果好妻子最终成为一个自由的女人呢?  

Director(s): Martin Provost | 109 minutes | In French with English subtitles.

Miracle 罗马尼亚| 2021

讨论日期: January 30

A young nun sneaks out of her monastery to attend an urgent matter but never makes it back. 一名警探的调查揭露了真相.  

Director(s): Bogdan George Apetri | 118 minutes | In Romanian with English subtitles.

The Orator |新西兰| 2012

讨论日期: February 6

The Orator (O Le Tulafale) is a contemporary drama about courage, forgiveness, and love.  身材矮小而谦逊的, Saili lives a simple life with his beloved wife and daughter in an isolated, 萨摩亚群岛上的一个传统村庄.  被迫保护自己的土地和家人, Saili must face his fears and seek the right to speak up for those he loves.  

Director(s): Tusi Tamasese | 111 minutes | In Samoan with English subtitles.

伦敦河 |英国/阿尔及利亚| 2009

讨论日期: 2月13日

A concerned mother from Guernsey travels to London in the immediate aftermath of the July 7, 2005 terrorist bombings after failing to hear from her daughter who lived in that area. Disturbed by the confusion of the metropolis and being surrounded by the predominantly-Muslim neighborhood, 她遇到了奥斯曼, 一个从法国来寻找他失踪儿子的西非人, 得知自己的女儿皈依了伊斯兰教.   虽然来自不同的背景, 这对不太可能的夫妇都希望找到他们的孩子活着. 抛开他们的文化差异, they give each other the strength to continue their search and maintain their faith in humanity.

Director(s): Rachid Bouchareb | 88 minutes | In English, French, and Arabic with closed captions.

Earth Mama |美国| 2023

讨论日期: 2月20日

有两个孩子被寄养, Gia, 一位怀孕的单身母亲反对这个制度, 为夺回她的家庭而战. 在她亲密的湾区社区, 她工作是为了自己和孩子们的生活, 这是电影制作人萨凡纳·利夫的处女作. 2023年圣丹斯电影节上耀眼的新星.  

Director(s): Savanah Leaf | 101 minutes | In English with closed captions.

佐拉·尼尔·赫斯顿:占领一个空间 |美国| 2023

讨论日期: February 27

Zora Neale Hurston has long been considered a literary giant of the Harlem Renaissance, but her anthropological and ethnographic endeavors were equally important and impactful. This is an in-depth biography of the influential author whose groundbreaking anthropological work would challenge assumptions about race, gender and cultural superiority that had long defined the field in the 19th century.  

Director(s): Tracy Heather Strain | 113 minutes | In English with closed captions.

Sepideh 伊朗| 2015

讨论日期: March 5

塞皮德想成为一名宇航员. 她每晚都在探索宇宙的秘密, 而她的家人会不惜一切代价让她留在地面上. The expectations of a young Iranian woman are very different from Sepideh’s ambitions, 她上大学的计划也岌岌可危. 但塞皮德坚持自己的梦想. She takes up the fight and teams up with the world's first female space tourist, Anousheh Ansari.  Nominated for the Grand Jury Prize for World Cinema - Documentary at the Sundance Film Festival.  

Director(s): Berit Madsen | 87 minutes | In English, Persian, and Farsi with English subtitles.

电影Sabaya |巴勒斯坦/以色列| 2021

讨论日期: March 19

A group of Palestinian and Israeli women attend a video workshop at a small-town community center run by Rona, 一位来自特拉维夫的年轻电影人, 谁教他们记录自己的生活. 每个学生都和其他人分享了自己家庭生活的视频, 他们的信仰和先入之见受到挑战, 障碍被打破了. 这个群体以母亲的身份聚集在一起, daughters, wives, 而女人生活在一个故意让她们分开的世界里, forming an empowering and lasting bond as they learn more about each other… and themselves. 电影Sabaya presents a heartfelt portrait of art’s capacity to unite disparate communities, moving effortlessly between the gravity of their conversations and the genuine joy of this unlikely group of friends.

Director(s): Orit Fouks Rotem | 95 minutes | In Arabic and Hebrew with English subtitles.

用火书写 |印度| 2021

讨论日期: March 26

在一个由男性主导的新闻领域, Kabar Lahariya成为印度唯一一家由达利特女性经营的报纸. 配备智能手机, Chief Reporter Meera and her team break traditions on the frontlines of India's biggest issues, 重新定义权力的含义.  “The most inspiring journalism movie – maybe ever,” writes The Washington Post.

Director(s): Rintu Thomas, Sushmit Gosh | 96 minutes | In Hindi with English subtitles.

Ma Ma |西班牙| 2015

讨论日期: April 2

Oscar-winner Penelope Cruz delivers the performance of her career as Magda, a woman who is determined to live life to the fullest in the face of her recent breast cancer diagnosis.  克鲁兹被提名为戈雅奖最佳女主角.

Director(s): Julio Medem | 111 minutes | In Spanish with English subtitles.

橙子和阳光 |澳大利亚| 2011

讨论日期: April 9

这是玛格丽特·汉弗莱斯的故事(艾米丽·沃森), a social worker from Nottingham who uncovered one of the most significant social scandals of recent times: the deportation of thousands of children from the United Kingdom to Australia.   几乎以一己之力, 面对巨大的困难,她不顾自己的安危, 玛格丽特使成千上万的家庭团聚, 让当局承担责任, 并引起了全世界对这起严重误判的关注.  

导演:吉姆·洛奇| 106分钟|英文字幕.

约瑟的儿子 |法国| 2016

讨论日期: April 16

一个重新启动的耶稣诞生故事,轻轻地刺穿了法国文化的自命不凡, 讲述了一个不满的巴黎少年寻找父亲的故事.  《bet365体育平台》的Ben Kenigsberg写道, “……建立了一个令人想起圣经的可爱结局。, 法国抵抗运动, 超现实主义.”            

Director(s): Eugène Green | 113 minutes | In French with English subtitles.

买烟 |德国| 2019

讨论日期: April 23

Seventeen-year-old Franz journeys to Vienna to apprentice at a tobacco shop. 在那里他遇到了西格蒙德·弗洛伊德, 常客, 随着时间的推移,这两个截然不同的人形成了一种独特的友谊.

当弗朗茨绝望地爱上了音乐厅舞者阿妮丝卡, 他向著名的精神分析学家寻求建议, who admits that the female sex is as big a mystery to him as it is to Franz. As political and social conditions in Austria dramatically worsen with the Nazis' arrival in Vienna, Franz, Freud, 和阿妮丝卡被卷入了事件的漩涡. 每个人都要做出重大决定:是留下还是逃离?   

Director(s): Nikolaus Leytner | 113 minutes | In German and Czech with English subtitles.

贾法尔·帕纳西的出租车 伊朗| 2015

讨论日期: April 30

Internationally acclaimed director Jafar Panahi drives a yellow cab through the vibrant streets of Tehran, picking up a diverse (and yet representative) group of passengers in a single day. Each man, woman, 孩子会坦率地表达自己对世界的看法, 在接受好奇而亲切的司机/导演的采访时. His camera, 放在他移动电影工作室的仪表盘上, captures a spirited slice of Iranian society while also brilliantly redefining the borders of comedy, drama, and cinema. 

Director(s): Jafar Panahi | 81 minutes | In Farsi with English subtitles.