• Traveling Film Southasia – Film Screening Festival Launch

    Communications Building 7487 Red Hill Road, Santa Cruz, CA

    Located in Communications 150, Studio C Join the Center for South Asian Studies (CSAS) for a celebratory film screening event to launch Travelling Film Southasia, a mobile film festival highlighting 19 exceptional nonfiction productions of the last two years, originally screened at Film Southasia 2024 in Kathmandu. This year’s festival encapsulates a range of experiences […]

  • Fanon in Documentary Film: Algerian Legacies

    Communications Building 7487 Red Hill Road, Santa Cruz, CA

    Film Screening and Panel Discussion:  5:30-7pm, Communications 150, Studio C Reception:  Communications 139, 7-8pm Marking the centenary of Frantz Fanon’s birth, the Center for Middle East and North Africa is hosting a film screening of True Chronicles of the Blida Joinville Psychiatric Hospital, the recent film by Algerian director Abdenour Zahzah that focuses on his time […]

  • Familiar Touch Screening

    Communications Building 7487 Red Hill Road, Santa Cruz, CA

    This public screening and discussion of FAMILIAR TOUCH, the debut feature by filmmaker and choreographer Sarah Friedland, follows retired cook Ruth (Kathleen Chalfant) as she navigates memory loss and mistaken identities.

    Complimentary ticket for UCSC students
  • Familiar Touch Screening

    Communications Building 7487 Red Hill Road, Santa Cruz, CA

    This is a public screening and discussion of FAMILIAR TOUCH. Ruth (Kathleen Chalfant), a retired cook, prepares breakfast in her sunny and cozy kitchen — a dish she seems to have made many times before, although small and puzzling errors now punctuate her comfortable routine. When her son (H. Jon Benjamin) arrives to dine with […]

    Complimentary ticket for UCSC students