Film Screenings
Jèn Ti Fi: Haitian Girlhood In a Global Frame
Jèn Ti Fi: Haitian Girlhood In a Global Frame
Film Series and Lecture
Film Series
A film series presented by the French Program, co-sponsored by the Haitian Studies Institute.
Films are free and open to the public. Subtitles are in English.
L’homme sur les quais (Raoul Peck, 1993, 106 min.)
Thursday, March 12, 2020
11 a.m.–2:15 p.m.
4227 Boylan Hall, MLL Student Lounge
Woch Nan Soley (Patricia Benoit, 2012, 95 min.)
Wednesday, March 18, 2020
2:15–3:30 p.m.
4227 Boylan Hall, MLL Student Lounge
Douvan jou ka lève (Gessica Généus, 2017, 51 min.)
Thursday, March 26, 2020
11 a.m.–1 p.m.
Woody Tanger Auditorium, Library
Lecture
Following the March 26 film, a lecture and discussion with Régine Michelle Jean-Charles.
This lecture examines how Haitian girls are seen and heard in film, photography, and fiction. The visual and literary texts analyzed offer stories of Haitian girlhood that center their experiences, amplify their voices, and complicate their subjectivities. Through close readings of photography by FotoKonbit, an organization dedicated to documenting Haitians by Haitians, and analyses of the novel Aux frontières de la soif by Kettly Mars and Raoul Peck's film L’homme sur les quais, we will discuss how girls are invisibilized, while simultaneously focusing on what and how Haitians girls see for themselves.
Régine Michelle Jean-Charles
Régine Michelle Jean-Charles (Ph.D., Harvard University) is associate professor of French at Boston College. She is the author of Conflict Bodies: The Politics of Rape Representation in the Francophhone Imaginary (Ohio University Press 2014). Her research and teaching interests include francophone African and Caribbean literatures and cultures, feminist theory, human rights in the humanities, and Haitian studies.
Organized by professors Nina Verneret and Vanessa Pérez-Rosario. For more information, e-mail the Modern Languages and Literatures Department.
Latin American and Spanish Film Festival
Latin American and Spanish Film Festival
October 15–18, 2019
October 15, 5 p.m.
Amerikanuak (Nacho Reig, 2010)
Woody Tanger Auditorium, Brooklyn College Library
Q&A with Miriam Navas-Hernández (CUNY Graduate Center)
Reception to follow at 411 Gotllieb Room.
October 17, 11 a.m.
Pájaros de verano / Birds of Passage (Cristina Gallego and Ciro Guerra, 2018)
Alumni Lounge, fourth floor, Student Center
Q&A with Jorge Alvis (CUNY Graduate Center)
Lunch will be served following the movie presentation.
October 17, 3:40 p.m.
Las vacas con gafas / Cows Wearing Glasses (Alex Santiago Pérez, 2014)
2310 Ingersoll Hall
Q&A with Daniel Vázquez (Puerto Rican Alliance, Brooklyn College)
October 18, 11 a.m.
El acompañante / The Companion (Pavel Giroud, 2015)
Woody Tanger Auditorium, Brooklyn College Library
Video chat with Pavel Giroud, director of the film.
Lunch will be served in the MLL Student Lounge, 4227 Boylan Hall.
October 18, 3:40 p.m.
Mãe Só Há Uma / Don't Call Me Son (Anna Muylaert, 2016)
3139 Boylan Hall
Open Q&A with Brooklyn College's groups and associations.
Un Cuento Chino Screening and Discussion
May 6, 2019
MLL Student Lounge, 4227 Boylan Hall. For more information about the event, e-mail Pedro Cabello del Moral.
Film Screening and Discussion of Handia
April 17, 2019
Handia (2017), directed by Jon Garaño and Aitor Arregi, tells the story of a giant in this Basque-language period drama. Martin and Joaquín set out on a long trip across Europe in this story of ambition based on true events. This film will be played in the Modern Languages and Literatures Department Student Lounge.
For more information about the event, e-mail Pedro Cabello del Moral.
Film Screening and Discussion of The Golden Dream
March 27, 2019
La Jaula de Oro (2014), also known as The Golden Dream, is directed by Diego Quemada-Díez and tells the story of three teenagers who travel from Mexico to the United States in search of a better life. This film will be played in the Modern Languages and Literatures Department Student Lounge.
For more information about the event, e-mail Pedro Cabello del Moral.
Film Screening and Discussion of Alfonso Cuarón's "Roma"
March 13, 2019
Roma (2018), written and directed by Alfonso Cuarón, will be played in the Modern Languages and Literatures Department Student Lounge, followed by a discussion. This semi-biographical drama film won Academy Awards for Best Director, Best Foreign Language Film, and Best Cinematography, and was nominated for Best Picture.
For more information about the event, e-mail Pedro Cabello del Moral.
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