Vancouver Premiere of Concrete Valley at VIFF
Visit the Public Humanities Hub-supported DocUBC Research Cluster‘s website to see their Fall program. Among the massive concrete block towers of Toronto’s Thorncliffe Park neighborhood, a Syrian doctor struggles to hold on to his cultural identity as his family begins to grow roots in their new community. Working as an unlicensed physician for his neighbors […]
Irma Vep (1996) screening, discussion, and book launch of Vulgar Beauty
DATE: September 15, 2022 TIME: 6:30pm – 10:00pm LOCATION: UBC Robson Square The Public Humanities Hub and UBC Connects at Robson Square present a free screening of Olivier Assayas’ meta-cinematic masterpiece, Irma Vep (France, 1996), starring global Hong Kong superstar Maggie Cheung. The screening will be accompanied by a talk and discussion led by Dr […]
Maliglutit (ᒪᓕᒡᓗᑎᑦ) (Searchers) screening and panel
DATE: June 21, 2022 TIME: 7:00pm – 9:30pm LOCATION: The Cinematheque, 1131 Howe Street Isuma ᐃᓱᒪ: To Think, To See The Western goes Northern in Zacharias Kunuk’s masterful third feature, co-directed with Atanarjuat actor Natar Ungalaaq and made through Kingulliit Productions, the successor to Igloolik Isuma Productions. Drawing inspiration from John Ford’s seminal 1954 Western The Searchers (from which Maliglutit takes […]