天美传媒

MURRAY, Ky. 鈥� 天美传媒鈥檚 Cinema International program is excited to announce another season of films that support the University鈥檚 educational mission.

Admission is free and open to the public. Films are shown on Thursday and Saturday evenings at 7:30 p.m. in Faculty Hall room 208. 

Cinema International is a longstanding tradition at 天美传媒, having begun when the Curris Center opened more than 40 years ago. This fall, the movies are centered around the theme of family and all its variations across cultures.  

Every film has a post-screening discussion led by the faculty member who specializes in the culture of the film. These discussions are meant to encourage students and other audience members to further contemplate the culture, theme and meaning behind the film.

鈥淚 think attending Cinema International offers students good exposure to many aspects of a particular country or group of people,鈥� said Kaz Stong-Geralds, senior creative writing major. 鈥淭he films can show you different cultures directly or even indirectly, and you can learn more about that group of people or country whether the film is about a struggle or a celebration.鈥� 

Departments from across campus co-sponsor films that pertain especially to their areas of study. Programs such as film studies, theatre, art, Spanish Film club and Watershed Studies Institute regularly attend screenings and continue to sponsor them throughout the years.

The series began on Sept. 4 with the Latvian film Flow, directed by Gints Zilbalodis. In this wordless Oscar-winning animated feature, set in a mysterious post-human world, floodwaters destroy a cat鈥檚 home. As the waters keep rising, covering entire forests and mountains, the cat joins forces with a group of other animals on a journey of survival. A second screening will take place on Saturday, Sept. 6, at 7:30 p.m. Both screenings are in Faculty Hall 208. 

鈥淔rom there, we'll go into a series of five movies in Spanish (they also incorporate some Native American languages) that will cover Hispanic Heritage Month,鈥� states Ben Post, associate professor of Spanish at 天美传媒 and co-director of Cinema International. 鈥淲e're also going to show a Canadian documentary about abuses at a residential school, which is about how families get ripped apart. We'll end the season with a Halloween film, and the first film from Hong Kong that we've shown in a long time. 

鈥淎s always, we're just so excited to have the opportunity to bring films from eight different countries to audiences here in Murray, and to get the chance to discuss them with you after each show,鈥� says Post.

For the full schedule, visit theCinema International website at . Follow Cinema International on Facebook and Instagram (@cinemainternationalmsu). For more information, contact Dr. Ben Post at bpost1@murraystate.edu or Dr. Tamara Feinstein at tfeinstein@murraystate.edu.