International Film Festival comes to UCLan
Union cinema to host diverse screenings
The Union's Mitchell & Kenyon cinema will see films from around the world on its screen as the third UCLan International Film Festival hits the screens.
Films will be shown from Japan, Italy, Germany, Egypt, China, Spain and France.
It all starts with Zatoichi, a Japanese tale about a blind nomad in the 19th century who makes his living as a gambler and masseur - but he's also a master swordsman.
Next up is Anche Libero Va Bene, an Italian film that's billed as a 'coming-of-age drama'.
Die Welle is on the Wednesday of the festival and the translation into English is 'The Wave'. It's a film about a high school teacher's unusual experiment to demonstrate to his students what life is like under a dictatorship - but it spins wildly out of control.
An Arabic film signals the middle of the festival, as Omaret Yakobean touches on love, power, sex and politics in the Egyptian capital, Cairo.
Xiao Cai Feng is on the Friday evening and is a Chinese film about two young men who are sent from the city to live in a culturally barren mountain village.
The weekend sees El Bonaerense, a Spanish film about a life stranger than fiction on, on the Saturday. The festival closes with French movie Etre et Avoir, which is billed as a charming and intimate portail of a single-class primary school in rural France.
All films have English subtitles. Tickets for all films can be bought on the door.
The festival is part of the Worldwise Learning Centre, which amongst other roles, it involves a number of various events and projects promoting better understanding of world cultures and languages among the UCLan community.
08 October 2009
