Film Movement gathers films from the top film festivals from around the world. Most of these films do not receive U.S. distribution. Each month Film Movement releases one film on dvd, and grants performance rights to UT Libraries to show the films on-screen.
So join us this Spring at the UT Libraries' Film Movement Series and sample award-winning, first-run independent and international feature films unlikely to be screened elsewhere in Knoxville.
Seven films will be shown in Hodges Library Auditorium at 7:30PM every other Tuesday from January 29th through April 22nd. A short film will follow the main feature. The film screenings are free and open to the public.
(Films are not rated. Some may contain explicit content.)
Film Movement Spring Semester 2008
free & open to the public - Hodges Library Auditorium
January 29, 2008 - 7:30pm Hodges Library Auditorium
Mother Of Mine
Finland & Sweden / d. Klaus Härö / 111 min
During World War II, more than 70,000 Finnish children were evacuated to neutral Sweden to avoid the conflict. “Mother of Mine” is the tale of 9-year-old Eero, a child who increasingly feels abandoned by his biological Finnish mother and yet not attached to his Swedish surrogate mom.
February 12, 2008 - 7:30pm Hodges Library Auditorium
Viva Cuba
Cuba / d. Juan Carlos Cremata Malberti / 80 min
Two children on the cusp of adolescence embark on a journey when their friendship is threatened by their parents’ social and political differences.
February 26, 2008 - 7:30pm Hodges Library Auditorium
The Island
Russia / d. Pavel Lounguine / 112 min
Somewhere in Northern Russia in a small Russian Orthodox monastery lives a very unusual monk. Those who visit the island believe that the man has the power to heal, exorcise demons, and foretell the future.
March 11, 2008 - 7:30pm Hodges Library Auditorium The Way I Spent The End
Of The World
Romania / d. Catalin Mitulescu / 106 min
Set in Romania towards the end of the Ceausescu regime, The Way I Spent the End of the World depicts a few months in the life of one family as they deal with universal struggles like raising kids, finding work, and abiding by societal expectations.
March 25, 2008 - 7:30pm Hodges Library Auditorium
Fraulein
Switzerland / d. Andrea Staka / 81 min
“Fraulein” explores questions of nationality, immigration and generational differences through the lives and friendships of three women from the former Yugoslavia living in Zurich and working in a cafeteria.
April 8, 2008 - 7:30pm Hodges Library Auditorium
Dreams Of Dust
Burkina Faso, Canada, France / d. Laurent Salgues / 86 min
Mocktar, a Nigerien peasant, comes looking for work in Essakane, a dusty gold mine in Northeast Burkina Faso, Africa, where he hopes to forget the past that haunts him. Once there, he quickly finds out, the gold rush ended twenty years before, and the inhabitants of this wasteland and strange timelessness manage to exist simply from force of habit.
April 22, 2008 - 7:30pm Hodges Library Auditorium
Adam’s Apples
Denmark / d. Anders Thomas Jensen / 94 min
Ivan is an insanely optimistic preacher who takes in convicts to help around the remote, rural church he ministers to. Grasping the extent of Ivan's crazed, preternatural determination to look on the bright side of everything, his newest ‘helper’ Adam immediately decides to shake him out of his rose-colored stupor.
Contact:
Greg Womac
Film Movement Coordinator
974-4473
1015 Volunteer Boulevard
Knoxville, Tennessee 37996
John C. Hodges Library : Lindsay Young Auditorium
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