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poster for Haiti Untold, the untold story of Radical Change in Haiti

2024 Haitian Film Series: Haiti Untold

December 6, 2024

Dir. Dan Shannon and Isabelle DePelteau, 2014, 76 min. Haiti Untold chronicles the personal journey of a few famous and not-so-famous individuals who have put their heads and hearts to ...

13th Annual Haitian Film Series flyer with listd dates and movies

13th Annual Haitian Film Series

November 15, 2024

Multi Day Event FRIDAY, NOVEMBER 15 Haiti Betrayed 7:00 PM EST | https://duke.is/y/jq7p Dir. Elaine Brière (2020) 82 min. Haiti Betrayed sheds light on the deep-rooted systemic and structural inequalities ...

art from 68 voices, 68 hearts; a woman contains the cosmos with swirling orange hair

Reception for Gabriela Badillo

November 6, 2024

CLACS welcomes Gabriela Badillo, founder and director of 68 Voces, 68 Corazones, as she opens her exhibit of posters in the Spanish Language Program House and Languages building. Badillo is ...

a girl looks lovingly at her wooly llama

NCLAFF: Cuidando al sol (Sun & Daughter)

October 26, 2024

Free and open to the public. Dir. by Catalina Razzini. Bolivia. 2022. 84 min. Spanish, Aymara, with English subtitles. Pragda series. Ten-year-old Lucía’s family lives in the Island of the ...

still from Amazonia; an indigenous woman with face tattoos gazes into the camera

NCLAFF: Amazônia, a nova minamata?

October 24, 2024

Introduced by Gustavo Furtado, Romance Studies at Duke. With the presence of the director, Jorge Bodansky Free and open to the public. Dir. by Jorge Bodansky. Brazil. 2022. 75 min. ...

still from Blanco en Blanco; a man takes a photo with an old fashioned camera

NCLAFF: Blanco en Blanco (White on White)

October 17, 2024

Introduced by Miguel Rojas-Sotelo Free and open to the public. Dir. by Theo Court. Chile. 2019. 90 min. Spanish, English, Dutch, Mapudungun with English subtitles. Traveling photographer Pedro is a ...

still from The Settlers film; 3 men on horseback in a mountainous terrain

NCLAFF: Los Colonos (The Settlers)

October 10, 2024

Introduced by Hank Okazaki, Screen/Society Free and open to the public. Dir. by Felipe Gálvez. Chile. 2023. 90 min. Spanish, English with English subtitles. At the turn of the 20th ...

pictures of ALINE PIBOULE, PASCAL QUIGNARD on flyer announcing their musical event

THE LAST LOVE OF FAURÉ

September 19, 2024

FAURÉ’S LOVE AFFAIR WITH MARGUERITE HASSELMANS, WITNESS TO THE LAST TWENTY-FOUR YEARS OF THE COMPOSER’S LIFE, INSPIRES PIANIST ALINE PIBOULE AND WRITER PASCAL QUIGNARD TO ENGAGE IN AN INTIMATE CONVERSATION ...

text for event and photo of Amazonian Indigenous people looking at a computer screen

The Invention of the Other

April 19, 2024

Please join us for the Amazon Lab Film Series showing of “The Invention of the Other” (Dir. Bruno Jorge, Brazil). This Friday, April 19, 12:30pm – in the Amazon Lab, ...

Alice Diop photography on an event flyer announcing her visit to Duke

A Conversation with filmmaker Alice Diop

April 18, 2024

Internationally renowned filmmaker Alice Diop will be visiting Duke briefly on April 18. Alice Diop represented France for the 2023 Oscars and was the recipient of the Grand Jury Prize ...