Past Events
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January 30, 2026Critical Thinkers Series: Sunera Thobani (University of British Columbia)
Abstract: Muslims were indispensable to the founding and development of the pre-Partition popular film industry (Masud, 2008; Roy, 2015 ); this was also the case in the industry’s post-liberalization transformation into Bollywood, a global cultural behemoth (Raghavendra, 2016; Mishra, 2002)…
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January 28, 2026
Happy Holidays by Scandar Copti, including a Q&A (via Zoom) with the filmmaker
Happy Holidays tells four intersecting stories of people in contemporary Jerusalem, and premiered at 2024 Venice International Film Festival, where it won the "Orizzonti" award for Best Screenplay - before then playing at numerous festivals and winning awards at the Hamburg International Film…
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January 21, 2026
Three Promises by Yousef Srouji, Q&A with the filmmaker, @The Norm
The film involves footage from the director's personal archive, featuring primarily his mother and sibling in Palestine during the Second Intifada. Three Promises won the Harrell Award for Best Documentary at the 19th Annual Camden Film Festival.This event will be free for the public to…
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January 16, 2026Critical Thinkers Series: Erin Shevaugn Schlumpf (University of Ohio)
Erin Shevaugn Schlumpf (University of Ohio): Remnants of Refusal: Feminist Affect, National Trauma
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January 13, 2026The Battle of Algiers @ The Cinematheque
The Battle of Algiers / La battaglia di AlgeriItaly/Algeria1966Gillo Pontecorvo121min 35mm One of the great epics of revolutionary political cinema, Gillo Pontecorvo’s legendary The Battle of Algiers grippingly recreates the armed struggle for Algerian independence against France in the…
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January 9, 2026Critical Thinkers Series: Lisa Coulthard (University of British Columbia) and Lindsay Steenberg (Oxford Brookes University)
Lisa Coulthard (University of British Columbia) and Lindsay Steenberg (Oxford Brookes University): Between Blood and Data: The Fight Scene in Post Millennial Hollywood
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December 5, 2025Critical Thinkers Series: Wayne Wapeemukwa
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December 4, 2025YALLAH! YALLAH! – Film Screening + Q&A
Directed by Cristian Pirovano & Fernando RomanazzoEdited by Alejandro Rath🗓 Thursday, December 4🕛 Doors 12:00 PM · Screening 12:30 PM📍 Norm Theatre – UBC
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November 21, 2025Critical Thinkers Series: Su-Anne Yeo
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