Center for the Humanities Film Festival

Feb 13, 2017

The Center for the Humanities will focus its annual film festival from Feb. 19-22, 2017, on the theme of rethinking global cultures.

Three free, public film screenings will highlight topics that transcend political, geographical and cultural borders. All will take place in the Harris Center Cinema.

The Trials of Spring: 2 p.m. Sunday, Feb. 19; A documentary film that explores gender and sexual violence in the context of the Egyptian uprisings during the Arab Spring.; Hend Nafea, an Egyptian activist who is featured in the film, will be at the screening and will take questions after the film ends.; 90 minutes; Arabic with English subtitles
Mustang: 7 p.m. Monday, Feb. 20; A feature film by Deniz Gamze Ergüven, a French-Turkish director. "Mustang" explores gender and family dynamics in rural Turkey, and raises questions about cultural norms in global context.; 97 minutes; Turkish with English subtitles
The Pearl Button: 7 p.m. Tuesday, Feb. 21; A documentary from acclaimed Chilean filmmaker Patricio Guzmán that explores the link between natural and political environments in the context of state-sponsored violence.; 82 minutes; Spanish with English subtitles.

The festival will conclude on Wednesday, Feb. 22, with a public keynote address by University of Iowa Associate Professor Kathleen Newman, a specialist in cinema and Latin American studies. Her speech, titled "Cinema, Mobility, Global Society: A Latin Americanist Perspective," will start at 7:30 p.m. in Joe Rosenfield '25 Center, Room 101.

Grinnell College welcomes the participation of people with disabilities. Room 101 in the Rosenfield Center is equipped with an induction hearing loop system, which enables individuals with hearing aids set to T-Coil to hear the program. Accommodation requests may be made to Conference Operations.

The College also welcomes the presence of minors at all age-appropriate public events and for informal visits, with the understanding that a parent, legal guardian, or other responsible adult assumes full responsibility for their child's safety and behavior during such visits or events. In these cases, the College expects that an adult responsible for the visiting child takes measures to ensure the child's safety and sees that the child complies with directions of College personnel. Grinnell College is not responsible for supervision of minors on campus.