FILM@UC
archive | fall 2020
All showings Thursday night at 7:00 p.m. in Macfarlane Auditorium. Admission is free.
AUGUST 27
John Lewis: Good Trouble
(2020, USA, dir. Dawn Porter, 96 mins.) | SPECIAL DOUBLE SHOWING This timely and moving documentary uses interviews and rare archival footage to chronicle the late Congressman and civil rights icon John Lewis’ lifetime of social activism and legislative action, from his childhood experiences to his fateful meeting with Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. in 1957 to his towering presence as the “conscience of the Congress.”
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SEPTEMBER 3
Ai Weiwei: Yours Truly
(2019, USA, dirs. Cheryl Haines & Gina Leibrecht, 76 min.)Ai Weiwei, China's most famous artist and dissident, transforms Alcatraz Island prison into a monumental, socially-engaged art installation focused on prisoners of conscience and the unjustly incarcerated in this impassioned documentary that combines this powerful exhibition with interviews of current and former prisoners.
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SEPTEMBER 10
Radio Silence
(2019, Mexico, dir. Juliana Fanjul, 79 mins.)A rousing portrait of Carmen Aristegui, a courageous and incorruptible journalist and radio news anchor who along with her team of investigative reporters in 2015 uncovered a corruption scandal involving the president of Mexico that resulted in her being fired and sparked protests by her millions of listeners who look to her to speak truth to power in a media landscape rife with government misinformation.
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SEPTEMBER 17
We Are Little Zombies
(2019, Japan, dir. Makoto Nagahisa, 120 min.)An eccentric, rainbow-colored, 8-bit video game inspired, and poignant film about four emotionally-numb teenage orphans who try to make sense of a life with no family, no future, no dreams, and no way to move forward by starting a band whose music unexpectedly captures the outlook of their generation and propels them to fame.
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SEPTEMBER 24
In Pursuit Of Silence
(2015, USA, dir. Patrick Shen, 81 min.)An immersive and profound journey around the globe, from John Cage’s ground-breaking composition 4'33" to a traditional tea ceremony in Kyoto to the streets of Mumbai during the festival season and beyond, exploring of our relationship with silence, sound, and the impact of noise on our lives.
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OCTOBER 1
Anthropocene: The Human Epoch
(2019, Canada, dir. Alicia Vikander, 87 mins.)This sobering and visually stunning film further raises the alarm over the profound and lasting human changes to the Earth, as documented in nearly a decade of research by the international body of scientists known as the Anthropocene Working Group.
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OCTOBER 8
Sequestrada
(2019, Brazil/USA, dirs. Sabrina McCormick & Soopum Sohn, 92 min.)The lives of a thirteen-year-old indigenous girl, a corrupt Brazilian bureaucrat, and a “fixer” from New York lobbying on behalf of American investors seeking to build an illegal dam in the Amazon become intertwined in this thought-provoking environmental thriller.
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OCTOBER 15
Monos
(2019, Colombia, dir. Alejandro Landes, 102 min.)A young group of rebels keep watch over an American hostage on a remote mountain of Latin America until an ambush drives the squadron into the jungle where both the mission and the bonds between the group begin to disintegrate in this cautionary survivalist saga.
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