Join us for FLEFF Week One virtual talkbacks.
Watch the films via streaming on your own time this week and join us via Zoom for the talkbacks this coming weekend!
Click on the film titles to access the Eventive streaming platform & click on the Zoom link to register for the talkback. Click here to read bios of the speakers featured at the talkbacks.
GOLDEN HARVEST (Alia Yunis, 2019)
In this illuminating and artistic documentary from Alia Yunis, we follow the history and relationship between olive trees and the Mediterranean people that have overseen their cultivation and well-being for thousands of years. Featuring a diverse range of interviews from those who know and love the olive tree, Yunis' doc is a lovingly crafted tribute that is not to be missed.
Talkback Saturday, March 26 10:00am EDT
Alia Younis, Dale Hudson
register: https://ithaca.zoom.us/meeting/register/tJIvceivrD0jGtF5zL1H8yRcd1zVQbYFP6dO
FEAR (Ivaylo Hristov, 2020)
Svetla, a strong-willed widow, lives alone in a small Bulgarian village close to the Turkish border. One day, while hunting in a forest, she encounters an African refugee, Bamba, who is trying to reach Germany, and will bring about a dramatic turn in her life.
Talkback Saturday, March 26 1:00pm EDT
Dina Iordanova, David Ost, Saviana Stanescu, Michael Richardson
register: https://ithaca.zoom.us/meeting/register/tJYudeuvrDIjG9cfmjiyAZqSUOi4Bvx4cnh1
BLANCO EN BLANCO (Théo Court, 2020)
At the dawn of the twentieth century, Pedro arrives in Tierra del Fuego, a violent and hostile territory, to immortalize the marriage of a powerful landowner. Fascinated with the bride-to-be’s beauty, he betrays the rules and is left to face a land crawling with violence and marked by the genocide of its indigenous inhabitants.
Talkback Saturday, March 26 4:00pm EDT
Deb Castillo, Camilo Malagon, Jonathan Ablard
register: https://ithaca.zoom.us/meeting/register/tJUqfugrzIoHdOuIbunccommND05W_bSCe8
UN FIL (Mehdi M. Barasaoui, 2020)
Tunisia, summer 2011. The holiday to the South of the country ends in disaster for Fares, Meriem and their 10-year-old son Aziz, when he is accidentally shot in an ambush. His injury will change their lives: Aziz needs a liver transplant, which leads to discovery of a long-buried secret. Will Aziz and the relationship survive?
Talkback Sunday, March 27 1:00pm EDT
Jeanette Jouili, Tony Adah
register: https://ithaca.zoom.us/meeting/register/tJYldO2oqDosGdUC2xIAdMMe-o9N7_dzW44W
SCREENING FROM WITHIN (Yi Cui & Thomas Lahusen, 2018)
Migrant workers of Beijing and Chengdu, rural inhabitants of Anhui, Sichuan and the Aba Tibetan Autonomous Prefecture, as well as projectionists from today and yesterday, share their thoughts, memory and experience about government and NGO-sponsored film screenings.
Talkback Sunday, March 27
Yi Cui, Tina Chen, Gina Marchetti
register: https://ithaca.zoom.us/meeting/register/tJEod-qtqzMiGNyC7xA8y-cOU50L99sarTR2
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