Foreign film series runs through May 1

12:24 p.m., March 3, 2005--The University of Delaware’s spring International Film Series continues with screenings at 7:30 p.m., Sundays (except March 27), in the Trabant University Center Theatre. Foreign language films are shown with subtitles and all of the films are free and open to the public.

Scheduled screenings include:

The Mother, March 6, a 2004 film from the United Kingdom, written by Hanif Kureishi (My Beautiful Laundrette), is fraught with conflicting desires and frustrations. When May, played by Ann Reid, finds herself suddenly freed from a life spent accommodating and looking after others, she discovers a new sense of self and an awakened sexuality that are startling, not least of all to her.
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My Architect, March 13, a 2004 American documentary, follows the illegitimate son of renowned architect Louis Kahn during his five-year journey from Philadelphia to Bangladesh in an attempt to understand his long-dead father.

Bus 174, March 20, Jose Padilha’s 2003 Brazilian documentary about a gunman holding up a bus in Rio de Janeiro, gives viewers a grizzly picture that portrays the cycle of violence that has come to typify contemporary urban Brazil.

Motorcycle Diaries, April 3, a 2004 film from Argentina, based on the journals of Che Guevara, recounts adventures of this legendary man of history and his best friend as they traveled across South America by motorcycle in the early 1950s.

A Very Long Engagement, April 10, a 2004 French film from the star and director of Amelie, portays one woman’s relentless search for her fiance, a soldier who has disappeared into the trenches of war.

Moolaade, April 17, the latest offering from director Ousmene Sembene, is a 2004 film from Senegal that tells the story of four young girls facing ritual circumcision who flee to a strong-willed woman who invokes the time-honored custom of moolaade (sanctuary) to protect them.

Infernal Affairs, April 24, a 2004 stylized thriller from Hong Kong that builds on emotional and psychological tension, and stars Andy Lau and Tony Leung respectively as an undercover cop who desperately wants a normal life and a corrupt cop who secretly reports to a ruthless crime boss.

Bride and Prejudice, (tentative), a 2004 film from the United Kingdom where Bollywood meets Hollywood in a reinvention of the classic Jane Austen novel.

For more information, call (302) 831-4066 (mailbox 3), or visit [www.english.udel.edu/ifs].

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