Foreign Film Series 2025
The Department of Modern Languages and Literatures is hosting our Foreign Film Series starting on March 17, 2025.
All screenings will have English subtitles and begin at 7:30pm in Combs Hall, Rooms 139 and 237 respectively.
Monday, March 17, Combs 237
The War Around Us (Arabic)
In 2008 two best friends found themselves trapped in one of the most dangerous places on earth – the only western journalists in the Gaza Strip on what was supposed to be a 24-hour assignment. The War Around Us captures the collision of veteran war correspondent and one of TIME’s most 100 influential people, Ayman Mohyeldin, with rookie reporter Sherine Tadros. As missiles shower the city and unspeakable atrocities emerge, the pair is torn by fierce professional rivalry, private terror and grim humor – with no way out and the whole world watching.—3rd Eye Filmworks (the production company of THE WAR AROUND US)
Tuesday, March 18, Combs 139
Victor “Young” Perez (French)
Victor “Young” Perez , tells the astonishing, harrowing and incredible moving story of a Tunisian Jewish boxer, who became the World Flyweight Champion in 1931 and 1932. Perez started training as a boxer at age 14 along with his older brother Benjamin “Kid” Perez. Perez rose to great fame via the help and guidance of Leon Bellier. The 5’1”, 110-pound Perez won the International Boxing Union’s version of the World Flyweight crown with a 2nd-round knockout of American champion Frankie Genaro, ergo becoming the youngest world champion in boxing history ! Perez was arrested in Paris on September 21, 1943 and detained in the Drancy internment camp France, before being transported to Auschwitz where he was assigned to the Monowitz to serve as a slave laborer Victor Perez arrived at Auschwitz on October 10, 1943, as part of “Transport 60” a group of 1,000. He was held in AuschwitzIII/Monowitz. Whilst there he was forced to participate in boxing matches for the amusement of the Nazis. By 1945. Victor had survived 140 bouts in 15 months and won 139 !! Perez was one of the prisoners on the “Death March that left the camp on January 18, 1945.
Wednesday, March 19, Combs 237
The Ballad of Narayama (Japanese)
In a poor 19th century rural Japanese village, everyone who reaches the age of 70 has to climb a nearby mountain to die. An elderly woman is reaching close to her cut-off age during her last days with her family.
Thursday, March 20, Combs 139
Chile ’76 (Spanish)
Chile, 1976. Carmen heads off to her beach house. When the family priest asks her to take care of a young man he is sheltering in secret, Carmen steps onto unexplored territories, away from the quiet life she is used to.
Monday, March 24, Combs 237
Leap (Chinese)
After 12 years, the Chinese women’s volleyball team again reached the Olympic final in 2016. They were now coached by Lang Ping, a stalwart of the 1980s Chinese women’s team, who won consecutive World Championships from 1981 to 1985.
Tuesday, March 25, Combs 139
North Face (German)
A secretary at a Berlin newspaper in 1936 gets to write about two Alpinists, as she knows them well. She later gets to report on and photograph her friends’ and other Alpinists’ climbs of the dangerous Swiss Eiger north face.
Wednesday, March 26, Combs 237
Troubling Love (Italian)
When an elderly woman dies–apparently happy but in curious circumstances–her daughter travels home to Naples for the funeral. Staying on, she tries to piece together her mother’s recent life. In doing so she starts to confront childhood memories that shaped the family history.
Film synopsis courtesy of IMDB.com