Note: This series is on hold for the 2021-2022 academic year.

 

Spring 2020 Schedule

7pm Brookens Auditorium

The NPR Illinois Foreign and Independent Film Series is a Student Life-sponsored series that hosts a variety of critically acclaimed independent and foreign films.. Attendance is FREE! If you have suggestions for future films for this series, please e-mail studentlife@uis.edu.

 

February 7 – Life is Beautiful (1998), from Italy, in Italian, 122 minutes, Rated PG-13 

An Italian family’s idyllic life comes to a screeching halt when they are shipped to Nazi camps during WWII. The Jewish father convinces his son that everything around them is a zany game to spare his son from the horrors of concentration camp imprisonment in this poignant tearjerker comedy.

March 20 – Salt of the Earth (1954), from US, in English, 94 minutes, Not Rated (ECCE Speaker Series Event)

Co-sponsored with the Women’s Center/Women’s History Month

Mexican workers at a zinc mine call for a general strike. It is only through the solidarity of the workers and importantly, the indomitable resolve of their wives, mothers, and daughters, that they eventually triumph.

April 10 – Amelie (2001), from France, in French, 122 minutes, Rated R

Amelie is an innocent and naive girl in Paris with her own sense of justice. She decides to help those around her and, along the way, discovers love.

May 1 – The Lives of Others (2006), from Germany, in German, 137 minutes, Rated R

In 1984 East Berlin, an agent of the Stasi, the East German secret police, is thrown into a quandary. While conducting surveillance on a writer and his lover, he finds himself becoming increasingly absorbed by their lives.