Screen/Society--"In the Mood for Love" (Wong Kar-wai, 2000)
Friday, February 14, 2025
7:00 pm
Q&A to follow with Giorgio Biancorosso, Professor of Music at the University of Hong Kong and author of "Remixing Wong Kar-wai: Music, Bricolage, and the Aesthetics of Oblivion"
Screen/Society--"No Other Land" (B. Adra, H. Ballal, Y. Abraham, R. Szor, 2024) {**Canceled - to be rescheduled}
**CANCELED**
Sponsor(s):
Cinematic Arts, Asian & Middle Eastern Studies (AMES), Duke Human Rights Center at the Franklin Humanities Institute (DHRC@FHI), Duke University Middle East Studies Center, Franklin Humanities Institute (FHI), Provost's Office, and Student Affairs
Thursday, February 20, 2025
7:00 pm
Panel Discussion to follow with Palestinian filmmaker/Duke instructor Hareth Yousef and Prof. Rebecca Stein (Cultural Anthropology)
Screen/Society--"The Seed of the Sacred Fig" (Mohammad Rasoulof, 2024)
Friday, February 21, 2025
7:00 pm
Screen/Society--"Flow" (Gints Zilbalodis, 2024)
Sponsor(s):
Cinematic Arts
Saturday, February 22, 2025
4:00 pm
Screen/Society--"Within These Walls" (Lenora Lee & Tatsu Aoki, 2024) + Q&A w/the filmmakers
Sponsor(s):
Cinematic Arts, Asian American and Diaspora Studies, Asian Pacific Studies Institute (APSI), Dance Program, and Franklin Humanities Institute (FHI)
Thursday, February 27, 2025
7:00 pm
Q&A to follow with Lenora Lee (producer, choreography director) and Tatsu Aoki (director); moderated by Prof. Jingqiu Guan (Duke University Dance Program)
Screen/Society--"No Other Land" (B. Adra, H. Ballal, Y. Abraham, R. Szor, 2024) {*RESCHEDULED*}
Sponsor(s):
Cinematic Arts, Asian & Middle Eastern Studies (AMES), Duke Human Rights Center at the Franklin Humanities Institute (DHRC@FHI), Duke University Middle East Studies Center, Franklin Humanities Institute (FHI), Provost's Office, and Student Affairs
Friday, February 28, 2025
4:00 pm
Panel Discussion to follow with Palestinian filmmaker/Duke instructor Hareth Yousef and Prof. Rebecca Stein (Cultural Anthropology)
"No Other Land" documentary film
Sponsor(s):
Duke Human Rights Center at the Franklin Humanities Institute (DHRC@FHI), Asian & Middle Eastern Studies (AMES), Cinematic Arts, Duke Human Rights Coalition (DHRC), Duke University Middle East Studies Center, Franklin Humanities Institute (FHI), Provost's Office, and Student Affairs Staff
Friday, February 28, 2025
4:00 pm - 6:30 pm
Hareth Yousef and Rebecca Stein
Film Screening: “Resurrection” (Hu Sanshou, 2024) + Q&A w/ director
Sponsor(s):
Asian Pacific Studies Institute (APSI), Asian & Middle Eastern Studies (AMES), and Cinematic Arts
Monday, March 03, 2025
7:00 pm - 9:30 pm
Hu Sanshou (director)
Screen/Society--"Corpus Callosum" (Michael Snow, 2002) | Duke Experimental Film Society
Sponsor(s):
Cinematic Arts
Wednesday, March 05, 2025
7:00 pm
Screen/Society--"Nickel Boys" (RaMell Ross, 2024)
Sponsor(s):
Cinematic Arts
Thursday, March 06, 2025
7:00 pm
Screen/Society--"The Straight Story" (David Lynch, 1999) | 35mm Screening
Sponsor(s):
Cinematic Arts
Thursday, March 20, 2025
7:00 pm
Introduced by Prof. Rick Warner (Director of Film Studies, Dept. of English & Comparative Literature, UNC Chapel Hill)
Screen/Society--"Hard Truths" (Mike Leigh, 2024)
Sponsor(s):
Cinematic Arts
Thursday, March 27, 2025
7:00 pm
Screen/Society--"All We Imagine as Light" (Payal Kapadia, 2024)
Sponsor(s):
Cinematic Arts
Friday, March 28, 2025
7:00 pm
Screen/Society--"Still:Moving"
Sponsor(s):
Cinematic Arts
Saturday, March 29, 2025
4:00 pm
Tom Whiteside
Israeli Documentary Series presents: “Abortion in the Holy Land”
Tuesday, April 01, 2025
7:00 pm - 9:00 pm
{Postponed} Emily Jacir: Artist Talk & Screening [To be rescheduled Fall '25]
**CANCELED**
Wednesday, April 09, 2025
6:30 pm
Emily Jacir
Screen/Society--"Faces of Seoul" (Gina Kim, 2009) + virtual Q&A w/ filmmaker
Sponsor(s):
Cinematic Arts, Art, Art History & Visual Studies, Asian & Middle Eastern Studies (AMES), Asian American and Diaspora Studies, and Asian Pacific Studies Institute (APSI)
Thursday, April 10, 2025
7:00 pm
Gina Kim
Screen/Society--Jean-Claude Rousseau | Duke Experimental Film Society
Sponsor(s):
Cinematic Arts
Wednesday, April 16, 2025
7:00 pm
Screen/Society--"Hatari!" (Howard Hawks, 1962) | 35mm Screening
Sponsor(s):
Cinematic Arts
Thursday, April 17, 2025
7:00 pm
Screen/Society--2025 Cinematic Arts Capstone Screening
Sponsor(s):
Cinematic Arts
Friday, April 18, 2025
7:00 pm
Screen/Society--" Dahomey" (2024) w/ dir. Mati Diop in person
Sponsor(s):
Cinematic Arts, Africa Initiative, African and African American Studies (AAAS), Art, Art History & Visual Studies, Black Archival Imagination Lab, Center for French and Francophone Studies, Duke Arts, Franklin Humanities Institute (FHI), Gender, Sexuality, and Feminist Studies, Humanities Labs@FHI, Literature, and Romance Studies
Tuesday, April 22, 2025
7:00 pm
Discussion to follow with the film's director, Mati Diop, in conversation with Prof. Felwine Sarr (Romance Studies) and Prof. Anne-Gaëlle Saliot (Romance Studies)
Screen/Society--"Ran" (Akira Kurosawa, 1985) | 40th Anniversary screening
Thursday, September 04, 2025
7:00 pm
Screen/Society--"The Lovers on the Bridge" (Leos Carax, 1991) | New 4K Restoration
Friday, September 12, 2025
7:00 pm
Introduced by Prof. Anne-Gaëlle Saliot (Romance Studies/Cinematic Arts)
Screen/Society--"Universal Language" (Matthew Rankin, 2024)
Sponsor(s):
Cinematic Arts
Saturday, September 13, 2025
4:00 pm
AADS Movie Screening of MAMA DANCERS
Thursday, September 18, 2025
7:00 pm - 9:00 pm
Dr. Jingqiu Guan
Emily Jacir: Artist Talk & Screening
Sponsor(s):
Franklin Humanities Institute (FHI), Art, Art History & Visual Studies, Cinematic Arts, Provost's Office, and Social Practice Lab
Friday, September 19, 2025
5:30 pm - 7:00 pm
Screen/Society--"Plan 75" (Chie Hayakawa, 2022)
Sponsor(s):
Cinematic Arts and Duke Human Rights Center at the Franklin Humanities Institute (DHRC@FHI)
Thursday, September 25, 2025
7:00 pm
Discussion to follow with Robin Kirk, former director of the Duke Human Rights Center @FHI, and Anne Allison, Cultural Anthropologist and author of 'Being Dead Otherwise' (Duke Univ. Press, 2023) about new death practices in Japan.
Screen/Society--“New Moon Chapter One” (Li Xinyue, 2024)
Sponsor(s):
Asian Pacific Studies Institute (APSI), Asian & Middle Eastern Studies (AMES), Cinematic Arts, and David M. Rubenstein Rare Book & Manuscript Library
Friday, September 26, 2025
7:00 pm - 10:30 pm
Guo-Juin Hong (AMES); Xinyue Li (director)
Screen/Society--"Henry Fonda for President" (Alexander Horwath, 2024)
Thursday, October 02, 2025
7:00 pm
Introduced by Prof. Graham Culbertson (English & Comparative Literature, UNC-CH)
Screen/Society--"Three Days of the Condor" (1975) | Tribute to Robert Redford (1936-2025)
Sponsor(s):
Cinematic Arts
Friday, October 03, 2025
7:00 pm
Screen/Society--DukeEngage Colombia (Shorts Program) + 'Bila Burba' (Duiren Wagua, 2023)
Thursday, October 09, 2025
7:00 pm
Films will be introduced by members of DukeEngage Colombia
Screen/Society--“The Death of Baijiashan" (Liu Xiaoqian, 2024)
Sponsor(s):
Cinematic Arts, Asian & Middle Eastern Studies (AMES), Asian Pacific Studies Institute (APSI), David M. Rubenstein Rare Book & Manuscript Library, and Libraries
Friday, October 17, 2025
7:00 pm
Virtual Q&A to follow w/ filmmaker Liu Xiaoqian
Screen/Society--"The Hellstrom Chronicle" (Ed Spiegel & Walon Green, 1971)
Saturday, October 18, 2025
4:00 pm
Introduced by Prof. Josh Gibson (Cinematic Arts)
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