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International Education Week presents…

• Monday, Nov. 16th -The Lives of Others/Das Leben der Anderen (2006)

University Teaching Center, UTC 2.112A, Movie begins at 7 p.m.
Hosted by BBA International Programs, McCombs School of Business
The first 150 attendees will receive free popcorn!

Directed by Florian Henckel von Donnersmarck.  Movie in German with English subtitles. “Before the Fall of the Berlin Wall, East Germany’s secret police listened to your secrets. In 1984 East Berlin, an agent of the secret police, conducting surveillance on a writer and his lover, finds himself becoming increasingly absorbed by their lives.” Source: IMDb - Internet Movie Database

• Tuesday, Nov. 17th - Mar Adentro/The Sea Inside (2004)

University Teaching Center, UTC 2.102A, Movie begins at 7 p.m.
Hosted by BBA International Programs, McCombs School of Business
The first 150 attendees will receive free popcorn!

Directed by Alejandro Amenábar. Movie is Spanish with English subtitles. “A life story of Spaniard Ramón Sampedro, who fought a 30-year campaign to win the right to end his life with dignity. Film explores Ramón’s relationships with two women: Julia, a lawyer who supports his cause, and Rosa, a local woman who wants to convince him that life is worth living.” Source: IMDb - Internet Movie Database

• Wednesday, Nov. 18th - Persepolis (2007)

University Teaching Center, UTC 4.122, Movie begins at 7 p.m.
Hosted by BBA International Programs, McCombs School of Business
The first 150 attendees will receive free popcorn!

Directed by Vincent Paronnaud and Marjane Satrapi. Movie in French with English subtitles. “A poignant coming-of-age story of a precocious and outspoken young Iranian girl that begins during the Islamic Revolution. This is a heartbreaking true story of a childhood coinciding with regime change and war in Iran. It’s a story that everyone who counts themselves as a human being should read or watch.”  Source: IMDb - Internet Movie Database

• Thursday, Nov. 19th - Doors and Passageways of Return

University Teaching Center, UTC 4.124, Movie begins at 7 p.m.
Hosted by the School of Social Work and the Warfield Center for African and African American Studies

A documentary recounting the experience of African-American artist, Muhsana Ali, who journeys “back” to Africa by way of the “Doors of No Return”, encountered during her visits to the Slave Ports located in Senegal and Ghana.  Her work is produced with the assistance of over 40 street youths she happens upon living in the abandoned Abidjan hospital ruin in which she chooses to house her exhibition.  The documentary reveals how Muhsana is able to come to terms with her personal bitterness concerning the painful history of slavery.  The making of the exhibition, 10 powerful sculptures and installations representing “a spiritual meeting place for the African peoples separated through slavery”, take both Muhsana and the youth through a series of meaningful rites of passage that leave them changed forever.

To learn more about other International Education Week events taking place from November 16 - 20, visit http://utiew.wordpress.com