Calendar
The East Lansing Film Festival will take place from November 3rd to the 10th. Films will be shown at Hannah Community Center, Studio C cinema, and Wells Hall on campus. Check out the website for the full listing of films, times, and locations.
The Edge of Heaven (Fatih Akin, 2007)
Presented by Matthew Handelman
Geography Awareness Week is holding a free movie screening and Q&A with the filmmakers Reuben Aaronson and Steve Lerner. The movie is “When the Well Runs Dry,” and is about the water situation in Kansas. Event is free and open to the public.
Cemetery of Splendor (Apichatopong Weerasethakul, 2015)
Presented by Lyn Goeringer
Son of Saul, directed by Laszlo Nemes
Winner of the 2016 Academy Award for Best Foreign Language Film, Son of Saul follows a Hungarian Jewish prisoner (Gez Rohig) in Auschwitz who works as a Sonderkommando, participating as a cog in the Nazis’ extermination machine. In a haunting exploration of the struggle to maintain one’s humanity in the midst of so much killing, Saul is determined to give the body of a young boy a proper Jewish burial.
Amy Simon (William and Audrey Farber Chair in Holocaust Studies, MSU) and Ken Walzer (History Professor Emeritus, MSU) will introduce the film, provide comments at the conclusion, and then lead a discussion about the film.
The Edge of Heaven (Fatih Akin, 2007)
Presented by Matt Handelman
Presented by Justus Nieland. An editor and his beautiful neighbor tiptoe toward an affair of their own after learning of their mates’ infidelity.
Presented by Lyn Goeringer
On a strange island inhabited by demons and spirits, a man battles the forces of evil.
The screening is free and open to all!
Presented by Yelena Kalinsky
Andrei Tarkovsky’s 1979 sci-fi masterpiece, based loosely on the Strugatsky brothers’ novel Roadside Picnic, takes place in a dystopian world where a mysterious Zone is sealed off by the government and is said to grant one’s deepest unconscious wish. Unable to resist the Zone’s pull, the Stalker of the title leads a washed-up writer and a cynical scientist on a spiritual and philosophical quest to the heart of the Zone. The illusion of continuous action through the constantly shifting landscape and strange, nondiegetic sound cast a seductive spell while ultimately frustrating any single interpretation.
Free and open to the public.
Screening of M. Manikandan’s film, presented by Amrutha Kunapull.
This Tamil film is centered on two boys from the slums of Chennai as they try to satisfy a yearning so familiar in the West – the want to eat pizza. The narrative follows the young protagonists as they make their way through the network of desire and the resultant challenges.
Free and open to the public.