Past Event Category: Film Club
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Apr 6Wisconsin Film Festival: Yasmeen’s ElementAmman Abbasi
The Marquee at Union South Get Tickets
Yasmeen, a young Pakistani schoolgirl, is an eager student, curious, joyful and determined. When she loses her homework assignment in the winding hills on her way home, she sets out to find her professor and discover which of the elements in the periodic table she is to research. She discovers that when atoms collide, they …
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Apr 4Wisconsin Film Festival: Souleymane’s Story
UW Cinematheque Get Tickets
Set over two urgent days in Paris, Souleymane’s Story follows an undocumented Guinean immigrant navigating the city’s streets as a bike courier while preparing for his high-stakes asylum interview. Part of an underground economy of couriers renting verified accounts, Souleymane pedals from dawn to nightfall, racing against both delivery deadlines and the strict curfew of his shelter. …
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Apr 4World Cinema Day 2025Director Amman Abbasi
Barrymore Theater, Madison, WI Register
World Cinema Day (WCD) will take place Friday, April 4th, 11:30 am, at the Barrymore Theater in Madison. World Cinema Day brings middle and high school students and teachers to Madison for a special free screening of a high-quality, international film with an introduction before the film and a Q&A/discussion after the film. This is an annual event held in …
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Mar 31Film Screening: Hot Stuff (2024) with Director Dandhy LaksonoZoom Register
Hot Stuff is an AIFIS film award winning documentary and part of a trio of Indonesian films that delve into energy policies in Indonesia, corporate ties to those policies, and their detrimental effects on local environments and populations. Director Dandhy Laksono and Producer Cypri Dale will join GETSEA live from the University of Michigan’s Center for Southeast Asia Studies as 20 universities …
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Dec 10Meet the Creators behind the Documentary ‘Padauk: Myanmar Spring’Online Register
Join the University of Minnesota's Institute for Global Studies virtually on the International Day of Human Rights. Educators will hear from the film makers of Padauk:Myanmar Spring as well as scholar Palita Chinsaengchan.
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Nov 5“Home is Somewhere Else” Film Screening & Lunch for K-12 students, educators, & parentsFilm Director Jorge Villalobos
Marquee Theatre, Union South, UW-Madison
“Home is Somewhere Else,” 2D feature “animentary,” or animated feature documentary, provides a window into the hearts and minds of immigrant youth and their undocumented families. It features three personal stories about undocumented youth to highlight the complexities and challenges they face today. Voiced by the actual children and their families, Home Is Somewhere Else …
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Nov 4Film Screening: “Home is Somewhere Else”
Film Director Jorge Villalobos
Marquee Theatre, Union South, UW-Madison
“Home is Somewhere Else,” a 2D feature “animentary,” or animated feature documentary, provides a window into the hearts and minds of immigrant youth and their undocumented families. It features three personal stories about undocumented youth to highlight the complexities and challenges they face today. Voiced by the actual children and their families, Home Is Somewhere Else invites …
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Apr 9WI Film Festival: Guardians of the FormulaBarrymore Theater Register Here
IRIS NRC is supporting the Wisconsin Film Festival for the screening of Guardians of the Formula. Tue, Apr 9th, 5:30 PM @ Barrymore Theatre Register Here About Guardians of the Formula 120 minutes | Serbia, Slovenia, Montenegro, Macedonia, France | 2023 1958. Fear grips the world as the Cold War rages on and the specter …
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Apr 7WI Film Festival: Green BorderMarquee (Union South), Cinema 8 (Flix Brewhouse) Register Here
IRIS NRC is supporting the Wisconsin Film Festival for the screening of Green Border. There are two screenings: Sun, Apr 7th, 4:30 PM @ The Marquee at Union South Tue, Apr 9th, 2:45 PM @ Flix Brewhouse, Cinema 8 Register Here About Green Border This powerful, gripping drama exposes the harrowing refugee crisis currently unfolding at …
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Apr 6WI Film Festival: Americans Smell GoodBartell Theater Register Here
Longtime WFF contributor, Emir Cakaroz's latest film is a charmingly serpentine document of his time spent here in the dairy state. Emigrating from Turkey to seek a career as a filmmaker, Emir arrives in Wisconsin, starts a family of his own, gets a job teaching, and meets a fascinating variety of people while establishing his new life in Milwaukee. His mom, back in Turkey but ever-present via Zoom, checks in regularly, peppering Emir with questions both sardonic and full of her own particular version of motherly love. Americans Smell Good combines the personal narratives of Cakaroz’s previous films, Two Photographs, Revza, and Dad's Apple with his fly-on-the wall observational documentaries, One Money and Riverwest Film & Video. The result is a singularly funny and moving feature that mashes the essay film and the portrait doc to create something that is uniquely and recognizably “Emir Cakaroz”. (BR)