Screen/Society--Cosmic Rays Touring Program 2025: "You Don't Know Me"
Tuesday, November 11, 2025
7:00 pm
Screen/Society--"Luo Luo’s Future" (Luo Luo, 2024)
Sponsor(s):
Cinematic Arts, Asian & Middle Eastern Studies (AMES), Asian Pacific Studies Institute (APSI), David M. Rubenstein Rare Book & Manuscript Library, and Libraries
Thursday, November 13, 2025
7:00 pm
Virtual Q&A to follow w/ filmmaker Luo Luo
Film Screening: “Silent War: Asian American Reckonings with Mental Health” (Changfu Chang, 2025)
Tuesday, November 18, 2025
7:00 pm - 9:30 pm
Eileen Chow; Yan Li; Lily Chen; Ling Jin; Pooja Mehta
Film Screening: Now It’s a Strange House
Sponsor(s):
Center for Jewish Studies, Center for Documentary Studies (CDS), Cinematic Arts, and German Studies
Wednesday, November 19, 2025
8:00 pm - 9:00 pm
Cate Knothe (T'24) and Ethan Grossman
Screen/Society--"Self-Portrait: 47 KM 2020"
Sponsor(s):
Cinematic Arts, Asian & Middle Eastern Studies (AMES), Asian Pacific Studies Institute (APSI), David M. Rubenstein Rare Book & Manuscript Library, and Libraries
Thursday, November 20, 2025
7:00 pm
Virtual Q&A to follow w/ filmmaker Mengqi Zhang
Screen/Society--"Hesitation Wound" (2023) + Q&A w/ dir. Selman Nacar
Sponsor(s):
Cinematic Arts, Asian & Middle Eastern Studies (AMES), Duke University Middle East Studies Center, and Provost's Office
Friday, November 21, 2025
7:00 pm - 8:00 pm
Q&A to follow with filmmaker Selman Nacar, moderated by Prof. Didem Havlioğlu (AMES / Coordinator, Duke Turkish Program)
Screen/Society--"By the Stream"(Hong Sangsoo, 2024)
Sponsor(s):
Cinematic Arts
Thursday, January 15, 2026
7:00 pm
Screen/Society--"It Was Just an Accident" (Jafar Panahi, 2025)
Sponsor(s):
Cinematic Arts
Friday, January 16, 2026
7:00 pm
"Dìdi" (Sean Wang, 2024)
Sponsor(s):
Cinematic Arts, Asian & Middle Eastern Studies (AMES), Asian American and Diaspora Studies, Asian Pacific Studies Institute (APSI), and English
Saturday, January 17, 2026
4:00 pm
Introduced by Prof. Cynthia Dong (English Department)
Screen/Society--"The Love That Remains" (Hlynur Pálmason, 2025)
Sponsor(s):
Cinematic Arts
Thursday, January 22, 2026
7:00 pm
Screen/Society--"Nostalgia for the Light (Patricio Guzmán, 2010)"
Sponsor(s):
Cinematic Arts, Arts & Sciences (A&S), Center for Documentary Studies (CDS), Center for Latin American and Caribbean Studies (CLACS), Duke Space Initiative, and Libraries
Tuesday, January 27, 2026
7:00 pm
Introduced by Miguel Rojas-Sotelo (Center for Latin American & Caribbean Studies/NC Latin American Film Festival) and Daniel M. Scolnic (Physics/Electrical & Computer Engineering)
Screen/Society--"Misericordia" (Alain Guiraudie, 2024) | 2026 French Film Festival
Sponsor(s):
Cinematic Arts, Art, Art History & Visual Studies, Arts & Sciences (A&S), Center for French and Francophone Studies, and Romance Studies
Thursday, January 29, 2026
7:00 pm
Introduced by Prof. Eric Disbro (Romance Studies); Q&A to follow
Soundtrack to a Coup d'Etat (Johan Grimonprez, 2024) | 2026 French Film Festival
Sponsor(s):
Cinematic Arts, Art, Art History & Visual Studies, Arts & Sciences (A&S), Center for French and Francophone Studies, and Romance Studies
Friday, January 30, 2026
7:00 pm
Q&A to follow with Distinguished Professor Felwine Sarr (Romance Studies) and Distinguished Professor Mark Anthony Neal (African & African American Studies)
Screen/Society--"Ghost Trail" (Jonathan Millet, 2024) | 2026 French Film Festival [Rescheduled: Feb 10]
**CANCELED**
Sponsor(s):
Cinematic Arts, Art, Art History & Visual Studies, Arts & Sciences (A&S), Center for French and Francophone Studies, and Romance Studies
Saturday, January 31, 2026
4:00 pm
Introduced by Emerita Professor miriam cooke (AMES); Q&A to follow
Screen/Society--"Holy Cow" (Louise Courvoisier, 2024) | 2026 French Film Festival
Sponsor(s):
Cinematic Arts, Art, Art History & Visual Studies, Arts & Sciences (A&S), Center for French and Francophone Studies, and Romance Studies
Thursday, February 05, 2026
7:00 pm
Introduced by Dr. Emma Howell (Lecturing Fellow, Romance Studies); Q&A to follow
Screen/Society--"Meeting with Pol Pot" (Rithy Panh, 2024) | 2026 French Film Festival
Sponsor(s):
Cinematic Arts, Art, Art History & Visual Studies, Arts & Sciences (A&S), Center for French and Francophone Studies, and Romance Studies
Friday, February 06, 2026
7:00 pm
Q&A to follow with Professor Eddie Malesky (Political Sciences) & Postdoctoral Associate Bradley DeMatteo (UNC, Dept. of Music)
Screen/Society--"The Umbrellas of Cherbourg" (Jacques Demy, 1964) | 2026 French Film Festival
Sponsor(s):
Cinematic Arts, Art, Art History & Visual Studies, Arts & Sciences (A&S), Center for French and Francophone Studies, and Romance Studies
Saturday, February 07, 2026
4:00 pm
Q&A to follow with Prof. Anne-Gaëlle Saliot (Romance Studies/Cinematic Arts) & Abby Shepherd (Romance Studies)
Screen/Society--"Ghost Trail" (Jonathan Millet, 2024) | 2026 French Film Festival [*RESCHEDULED*]
Sponsor(s):
Cinematic Arts, Art, Art History & Visual Studies, Arts & Sciences (A&S), Center for French and Francophone Studies, and Romance Studies
Tuesday, February 10, 2026
7:00 pm
Introduced by Emerita Professor miriam cooke (AMES); Q&A to follow
Screen/Society--"The Parallax View" (Alan J. Pakula, 1974)
Thursday, February 12, 2026
7:00 pm
Discussion to follow
Screen/Society--"Annette" (Leos Carax, 2021) | 2026 French Film Festival
Sponsor(s):
Cinematic Arts, Art, Art History & Visual Studies, Arts & Sciences (A&S), Center for French and Francophone Studies, and Romance Studies
Friday, February 13, 2026
7:00 pm
Introduced by Prof. Anne-Gaëlle Saliot (Romance Studies/Cinematic Arts); Q&A to follow
Screen/Society--'Dry Ground Burning' (2022)
Sponsor(s):
Cinematic Arts, Center for Documentary Studies (CDS), Experimental Film Lab, and Franklin Humanities Institute (FHI)
Tuesday, February 17, 2026
7:00 pm
Q&A to follow w/ director Joana Pimenta
Screen/Society--"Stalker" (Andrei Tarkovsky, 1979)
Thursday, February 19, 2026
7:00 pm
Discussion to follow
Screen/Society--"Perfumed Nightmare" (Kidlat Tahimik, 1977, 16mm)
Thursday, February 26, 2026
7:00 pm
Discussion to follow
Screen/Society--"Homegoings" (Christine Turner, 2013)
Sponsor(s):
Cinematic Arts, Center for Documentary Studies (CDS), Cultural Anthropology, Duke Human Rights Center at the Franklin Humanities Institute (DHRC@FHI), and Libraries
Saturday, February 28, 2026
4:00 pm
Q&A to follow w/ Andre D. Vann, Coordinator of the North Carolina Central University Archives and Instructor of Public History at NCCU, and Adam Rosenblatt, Professor of the Practice in International Comparative Studies and Cultural Anthropology at Duke University and Faculty Director of the Duke Human Rights Center @ FHI
Screen/Society--"Taste of Cherry" (Abbas Kiarostami, 1997)
Tuesday, March 03, 2026
7:00 pm
Q&A to follow with film critic A.S. Hamrah
Screen/Society--"Joonam" (Sierra Urich, 2023)
Thursday, March 05, 2026
7:00 pm
Q&A to follow w/ director Sierra Urich
Screen/Society--"Şerafettin Can Atalay" (Nebil Özgentürk, 2025) docu + filmmaker in attendance
Sponsor(s):
Cinematic Arts, Asian & Middle Eastern Studies (AMES), Center for Documentary Studies (CDS), Duke University Middle East Studies Center, and Franklin Humanities Institute (FHI)
Tuesday, March 17, 2026
7:00 pm
Q&A to follow w/ director Nebil Özgentürk
Film Screening: “Bluff City Chinese” (Thandi Cai, 2024)
Sponsor(s):
Asian Pacific Studies Institute (APSI), Asian American and Diaspora Studies, Center for Documentary Studies (CDS), and Cinematic Arts
Thursday, March 19, 2026
7:00 pm - 9:30 pm
Thandi Cai, director
Film Screening: "Coexistence, My Ass!"
Sponsor(s):
Center for Jewish Studies
Tuesday, March 24, 2026
7:00 pm - 9:00 pm
Screen/Society--"Milisuthando" (Milisuthando Bongela, 2023) w/ filmmaker in attendance
Sponsor(s):
Cinematic Arts, Art, Art History & Visual Studies, Black Archival Imagination Lab, Center for Documentary Studies (CDS), Concilium on Southern Africa, Franklin Humanities Institute (FHI), and Humanities Labs@FHI
Thursday, March 26, 2026
7:00 pm
Q&A to follow w/ director Milisuthando Bongela, in conversation w/ filmmaker Palesa Shongwe
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Screen/Society--"Fist of Legend" (Gordon Chan, 1994)
Sponsor(s):
Cinematic Arts, Art, Art History & Visual Studies, and Asian Pacific Studies Institute (APSI)
Saturday, March 28, 2026
4:00 pm
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Screen/Society--"Peking Opera Blues" (Tsui Hark, 1986)
Sponsor(s):
Cinematic Arts, Art, Art History & Visual Studies, and Asian Pacific Studies Institute (APSI)
Friday, April 03, 2026
7:05 pm
Introduced by Prof. Eileen Cheng-yin Chow (Asian & Middle Eastern Studies)
This Has Always Been a Portal - Film Screening
Saturday, April 04, 2026
12:00 pm - 2:30 pm
Allison "Sunny" Dean
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