Thank you for your interest in the Global Film Series. Our upcoming showings of 'Shoplifters' and 'Grazing the Amazon', scheduled for March 17th and April 7th, have been POSTPONED. We are planning on showing these films as part of our Fall 2020 Global Film Series lineup. More information on when it will be shown will be…
Thank you for your interest in the Global Film Series. Our upcoming showings of 'Shoplifters' and 'Grazing the Amazon', scheduled for March 17th and April 7th, have been POSTPONED. We are planning on showing these films as part of our Fall 2020 Global Film Series lineup. More information on when it will be shown will be…
In 1721, Philippe d’Orléans, Regent of France, develops a brilliant but unorthodox idea – to propose to Spain’s Philippe V, a marriage between the 11-year old Louis XV and 4-year old child princess, Anna Maria Victoria. The Spanish bride would not even be able to conceive for another decade! D’Orléans also proposes that his own…
Adil Hussain (Life of Pi) stars as Rajiv, an overworked businessman, who agrees to honor the final wish of his father, Daya, by accompanying him to the holy city of Varanasi. There, they check in to the Hotel Salvation, where residents are given just two weeks to live out their final days or return home.…
This Finnish documentary tells the story of two different sets of entrepreneurs:: one is a family-run business that goes from one village to another running a carnival and selling meat from a small truck. The other is a pair of two well-educated women from the capital area who have invented a vegetable protein product called…
Join us for Dinner & a Movie: Turkish Edition! We invite you to join us at Fountain Dining Hall to experience the flavors and cuisine of Turkey. After dinner, it's a short walk to the Witherspoon Cinema for the screening of the Turkish Film Ayla: The Daughter of War, shown as part of the Global…
Join the Turkish Student Association at NC State for a movie and dance night. TSA presents the Wild Pear Tree on October 5th. A DJ and Turkish food will follow the movie. The event is free to attend but RSVP is required. You can RSVP here.
Join NC State Global and NC State University Libraries for another screening in the Global Film Series. Argentina’s national treasure, Ricardo Darín, shows off his brilliant comic timing in this instant classic. Darín plays Roberto, a gruff, anti-social loner whose chance encounter with Jun, a Chinese man who has arrived in Argentina looking for his…
The Global Film Series is back and we're kicking off the semester with KIFARU, a documentary directed by NC State alumnus David Hambridge. Directed by NC State alumnus David Hambridge, KIFARU is a feature-length documentary that follows the lives of two young Kenyan recruits who join Ol Pejeta Conservancy's rhino caretaker unit - a small…
On Saturday, May 4th, 2019, the NC Japan Center and the Raleigh Sister Cities “Japanese Sister City Exploratory Committee” shall co-host a Japanese Anime Film Night at NC State’s Witherspoon Campus Cinema. This is the first of four such planned events, and this first showing is sponsored by the Honorary General Consul of Japan in…
Bending the Arc is a documentary about a team of young people—Paul Farmer, Jim Yong Kim, Ophelia Dahl—whose charitable medical work 30 years ago ignited a global health movement. Their goal was simple but daring: to make high-quality health care available to everyone, even in the world’s poorest countries. Fighting entrenched diseases, political and bureaucratic…
Winner of the Grand Jury Prize at the Cannes Film Festival, Capernaum ("Chaos") tells the story of Zain, a gutsy streetwise Lebanese boy as he flees his negligent parents, survives through his wits on the streets, takes care of Ethiopian refugees, is jailed for a crime, and sues his parents for the "crime" of giving…