International Film Festival UNC Charlotte Monsieur Lazhar Tuesday, March 10, 3:30 pm Student Union Movie Theater Main Campus Director Philippe Falardeau

International Film Festival

UNC Charlotte

Monsieur Lazhar

Tuesday, March 10, 3:30 pm

Student Union Movie TheaterMain Campus

Director Philippe FalardeauCanada, 2011, 94 min

In French, English, Arabic with English subtitles

“A classroom is a place of friendship, of work, of courtesy, a place of life.”

M. Lazhar earns the respect and trust of his pupils, some of them the children of

immigrants or, like this devoted instructor, recent arrivals to Quebec. As the reasons for M. Lazhar’s immigration to Canada from Algeria are made clear,

so, too is his rather unconventional method for applying for the teaching

position.

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La Yuma

Tuesday, March 105:00 pm

Burson 110 UNC Charlotte Main Campus

Director Florence Jaugey

Nicaragua, 2011, 91 min

In Spanish with English subtitles

Nicaragua’s first full-length feature in 20 years, La Yuma tells the story of a young woman who dreams of transcending her

bleak life in the slums of Managua by becoming a boxer.

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归途列车 / Last Train Home

Wednesday, March 11, 7:00 pm

Student Union Movie Theater UNC Charlotte Main Campus

Director Lixin FanChina, 2010, 85 min

In Chinese, Sichuan dialect, with English subtitles

Every spring, China’s cities are plunged into chaos as 130 million migrant workers journey

to their home villages for the New Year’s holiday. This mass exodus is the world’s

largest human migration—an epic spectacle that reveals a country tragically caught

between its rural past and industrial future.




Un Cuento Chino/Chinese Take-Away

Saturday, March 14, 1:00pm

UNC Charlotte Center City Amphitheater

Director Sebastián BorenszteinArgentina, Spain, 2012, 98 min


Roberto, a gruff, anti-social loner, lords over his tiny hardware shop in Buenos Aires with a

meticulous sense of control and routine, barely allowing for the slightest of customer foibles. After a chance encounter with Jun, a Chinese man who has arrived in Argentina looking for his only living relative, Roberto takes him in.

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Quai d’Orsay/ The French Minister

Saturday, March 14 3:00pm

Charlotte Center City Lecture Hall

Director: Bertrand TavernierFrance, 2013, 113 min

In French with English subtitles

Quai d’Orsay is a razor-sharp satire of politics, both those enacted on the

world stage and within the corridors of workplaces.




El Regreso / The Return

Saturday, March 143:00pm

Charlotte Center City Amphitheater

Director: Hernán Jiménez Costa Rica, 2012, 95 min.

After living 10 years in New York, 30-year-old Antonio returns to San José, where he is forced to deal with the realities he ran away

from.




Ernest et Célestine

Saturday, March 14, 1:00 pm

Charlotte Center City Lecture Hall

Directors: Stéphane Aubier, Vincent Patar, Benjamin Renner

France, 2012, 80 minIn French with English subtitles

In an unnamed French city, two different realms of sworn enemies

exist: Above ground live bears; below it reside mice. Celestine, a wee mouse orphan who is being

trained for a career in dentistry but dreams of being an artist instead,

meets a kindred spirit in adult Ernest, an ursine musician whom she

convinces not to eat her.




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Hamoun/ هامونMonday, March 16, 7:00 pm

McKnight Hall, Main Campus

Director: Dariush MehrjuiIran, 1990, 122 min.

Farsi with English subtitles

Hamoun’s wife is leaving him. He is also unsuccessfully trying to finish his Ph.D. thesis. He is forced to reexamine

his life. In a series of flashbacks and dreams, Hamoun tries to figure out what

he did wrong.


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Arrugas/Wrinkles

Tuesday, March 175:00pm

Burson 110, Main Campus

Director: Ignacio FerrerasSpain, 2014, 89 min


When former bank manager Emilio’s family sends him to a retirement home, his new roommate is a wily wheeler-dealer named

Miguel who cheerfully swindles small amounts of cash from the more disoriented

residents but is also full of handy insider tips that are crucial to survival. An eccentric cast of characters rebel against institutional

authority.


Oh Boy (A Coffee in Berlin)

Wednesday, March 185:00pm

Student Union Movie TheaterUNC Charlotte Main Campus

Director: Jan Ole GersterGermany, 2012, 83 min

In German with English subtitles

Niko, a twenty-something college dropout, is going nowhere fast. One

fateful day, through a series of absurdly amusing encounters, everything

changes: his girlfriend dumps him, his father cuts off his allowance, and a

strange psychiatrist dubiously confirms his ‘emotional imbalance’.







Ernest et Célestine

Wednesday, March 18, 7:00 pm

Student Union Movie TheaterMain campus

Directors: Stéphane Aubier, Vincent Patar, Benjamin Renner

France, 2012, 80 minIn French with English subtitles

In an unnamed French city, two different realms of sworn enemies exist: Above

ground live bears; below it reside mice. Celestine, a wee mouse orphan who is

being trained for a career in dentistry but dreams of being an artist instead, meets a kindred spirit in adult Ernest, an ursine musician whom she convinces not to eat

her.


UNC CharlotteO homem que copiavaThe Man Who Copied

Thursday, March 19, 5:00pm

UNC Charlotte Main Campus

CHHS 145

Director Jorge Furtado

Brazil, 2003, 124 min

Portuguese with English subtitles

André, a poor guy who lives in south Brazil, falls in love with Sílvia, a neighbor on whom he spies everyday with a pair of binoculars. He works as a photocopy

machine operator in a convenience store and he earns a very low salary. In order to

get closer to her, he starts making copies of bills to have money to ask her out.


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Arrugas/Wrinkles

Saturday, March 21,1:00pm


Director: Ignacio FerrerasSpain, 2014, 89 min


When former bank manager Emilio’s family sends him to a retirement home, his new roommate is a wily wheeler-dealer named

Miguel who cheerfully swindles small amounts of cash from the more disoriented

residents but is also full of handy insider tips that are crucial to survival. An eccentric cast

of characters rebel against institutional authority.




UNC Charlotte

El Regreso / The Return

Saturday, March 21, 3:00pm


Director: Hernán Jiménez Costa Rica, 2012, 95 min.

After living 10 years in New York, 30-year-old Antonio returns to San José, where he is forced to deal with the

realities he ran away from.




Poulet aux prunes Chicken with Plums

Monday March 23, 5:00pm

McKnight Hall, Main Campus

Directors: Marjane Satrapi and Vincent Paronnaud

Iran/France, 2011, 93 minIn French with English subtitles

As Nasser-Ali takes to his bed, where he plans to expire, the film recalls the source of his sorrow, stretching all the way back to his

childhood. The talented musician’s unhappy marriage to schoolteacher Faringuisse is

recounted, as well as his distant relationship to his two young children (whose own fates are

presented in droll flash-forward). Soon the real reason for Nasser-Ali’s anguish becomes clear: the rupture of his first—and only—great love affair, with a beautiful woman called Irâne.


Who Is Dayani Cristal?¿Quién es Dayani Cristal?

Tuesday, March 24, 5:00pm

CHHS 145, Main Campus

Director: Marc SilverMexico, USA, 2014, 85 min

In English and Spanish with English subtitles

Deep in the sun-blistered Sonora desert beneath a cicada tree, Arizona border police discover a decomposing male body. Lifting a

tattered T-shirt they expose a tattoo that reads “Dayani Cristal.” Who is this person? What brought him here? How did he die?

And who—or what—is Dayani Cristal?


Quai d’Orsay/ The French Minister

Wednesday, March 25 3:00pm


Director: Bertrand TavernierFrance, 2013, 113 min

In French with English subtitles

Quai d’Orsay is a razor-sharp satire of politics, both those enacted on the

world stage and within the corridors of workplaces.


Tale of IyaIya Monogatari:

Okunohito

Wednesday, March 255:30 pm


Director Tsuta Tetsuichiro

Japan, 2013, 169 minsIn Japanese with English subtitles

Tsuta Tetsuichiro, the director, writer, and editor of The Tale of Iya, will attend the

screening!

Haruna and her grandfather (played by the legendary dancer-actor Tanaka Min) live in a hermetic world of rural Tokushima, growing

their own food and hunting in the forest. Change arrives with a young man from Tokyo, just as Haruna must decide whether to stay in

the village or move to the city.







Viva la libertà Long Live Freedom

Sunday, March 29

5:30pm

UNC Charlotte Center City

Director Roberto AndòItaly, 2013, 94 min.

In Italian with English subtitles

Dramedy based on a novel by Roberto AndòEnrico, the leader of Italy’s opposition party,

suddenly drops out of sight; his team decides to replace him temporarily with

Ernani, his bipolar identical twin, fresh from the madhouse. Unexpectedly, Ernani takes

over his brother’s political role and becomes very popular.




Горько/Kiss them all Tuesday, March 31, 5:00 pm

Student Union Movie Theater, UNC Charlotte Main Campus

Director: Zhora KryzhovnikovRussia, 2013, 100 min

In Russian with English subtitles

Progressive and talented Natasha and Roma dream of a European wedding on the beach, but Natasha’s stepfather has other ideas. As a city manager, he thinks the festivities

should be a springboard for his own career and tries to arrange everything accordingly. An evening in a restaurant complete with all of the boring traditions is prepared for

the young couple. Finding themselves unable to argue, the pair decides to have their dream wedding anyway, but to

keep it secret from their conservative relatives.





Shorts from Russia and UNC Charlotte

Wednesday, April 1, 2:30 pm

Student Union Movie Theater, UNC Charlotte Main

Campus

Three different stories and tree different outlooks.

“Not a word about your mom” follows the steps of a young sophisticated woman who is stuck with the

daughter pattern, hunted by the vivid presence of her deceased mother.

“To leave or not to leave” catches a talented scientist right before he is ready to leave his old life in Russia and

start a new one in the USA.

The film “By accident” is a dark comedy which lets us spend new year’s eve with a Russian family who eats,

drinks, toasts, watches TV and commits murder with the same nonchalant attitude.

To leave or not to leave Валить нельзя остаться

Not a word about your mother Ни слова о твоей

матери

By accident (Unintentionally)

Нечаянно

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Mauvais SangThe Night is Young

Wednesday, April 1, 5:00pm

Student Union Movie Theater, UNC Charlotte Main Campus

Director Leos CaraxFrance, 1986 & 2013, 105 minIn French with English subtitles

Alex, a conjuror and card sharp, teams up with gangster Marc (Michel

Piccoli). All-consuming passion is ignited once Alex sees Anna (Juliette Binoche) on a bus, only to discover

that she is Marc’s lover.





L’image manquante/The Missing

Picture

Tuesday April 2, 2:00 pm

COED 010, Main Campus

Director Rithy PanhFrance, Cambodia, 2013, 92 minIn French with English subtitles

Rithy Panh ingeniously uses carved and painted figures to represent himself and his family (and many others), who had to flee Phnom

Penh for agricultural labor camps on April 17, 1975, the day that the Khmer Rouge seized Cambodia’s

capital city.

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Une bouteille à la merA Bottle in the Gaza

Sea

Tuesday April 2, 6:00pm

Main Campus, COED 010

Director Thierry BinistiIsrael / France, 2012, 99 min

In Hebrew, Arabic, French with English subtitles

Tal is a 17-year-old Frenchwoman who has settled in Jerusalem with her family. She writes a letter expressing her refusal to

accept that only hatred can reign between Israelis and Palestinians. She slips the letter into a bottle, and her brother throws it into the sea near Gaza. A few weeks later, Tal receives a response from a mysterious “Gazaman,” a young Palestinian named

Naim.

Sponsored by the Charlotte Jewish Film Festival

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International Film Festival UNC Charlotte Monsieur Lazhar Tuesday, March 10, 3:30 pm Student Union Movie Theater Main Campus Director Philippe Falardeau