World Film Series

The World Film Series is offered to the Wofford community in support of the College’s goals of developing intellectual curiosity and aesthetic sensitivity. Often these films are incorporated into course syllabi to enhance classroom learning and to increase cultural awareness. The Series is funded through the Wofford College Cultural Affairs Committee and the Department of Foreign Languages.

The films will be shown in widescreen DVD. Students are admitted free to all showings. There is no charge for films in DVD. All films are in the original language, with English subtitles when appropriate. The films are presented in the Teaching Theater of the F.W. Olin Building (Olin 101). All films are shown Wednesdays at 3:30 p.m. and 7:30 p.m., on the dates indicated. Some films may not be appropriate for younger viewers.

For more information regarding the World Film Series, email Iliana Villanueva at villanuevaji@wofford.edu.

Spring 2013 Schedule

Lila Lila

Wednesday, February 13, 2013, 3:30 and 7:30 p.m.
Teaching Theater, F. W. Olin Building

Director: Alain Gsponer
Germany, 2009; 107 mins.
In German (English subtitles)

David Kern is a hapless waiter who falls in love with an attractive literature student named Marie. Fate intervenes when he buys a table at a flea market and discovers a manuscript for a book in its drawers. It's a romantic tale that moves him deeply so he decides to show it to her, pretending he's the actual author. Indeed, she loves it too, and their relationship blossoms. What he doesn't know is that she sends the manuscript to a publisher who quickly transforms it into a bestseller. Suddenly thrust into the world of celebrity, David struggles with keeping up the ruse, especially when the real author makes his presence known.
www.corinthreleasing.com

If You Are The One II

Wednesday, February 27, 2013, 3:30 and 7:30 p.m.
Teaching Theater, F. W. Olin Building

Director: Xiaogang Feng
China, 2010; 123 mins.
In Mandarin (English subtitles)

A sequel to one of China's biggest box office hits, the wry romantic comedy continues the odd-couple courtship saga of wealthy, middle-aged retiree Qin Fen (Ge You) and serious-minded young air hostess Xiaoxiao (Shu Qi). After an amusing prelude in which Qin presides over a lavish divorce ceremony for an amicably splitting married couple, he and Xiaoxiao decide to address their own relationship barriers — her youth and beauty, his cynical, childish sense of humor — by entering into a trial marriage while on a trip to the country's tropical southeast.
Adapted from latimes.com

Violeta Went to Heaven

Wednesday, March 13, 2013, 3:30 and 7:30 p.m.
Teaching Theater, F. W. Olin Building

Director: Andrés Wood
Chile, 2011; 110 mins.
In Spanish (English subtitles)

Like a Chilean Edith Piaf or Bob Dylan, Violeta Parra was a folksinger and pop culture icon whose songs, like “Gracias a la Vida,” expressed the soul of her nation and protested social injustice. Violeta Went to Heaven tells Parra’s extraordinary story, tracing her evolution from impoverished child to international sensation to Chile’s national hero, while capturing the swirling intensity of her inner contradictions, fallibilities, and passions.
Adapted from filmguide.sundance.org

As a Young Girl of 13

Wednesday, April 17th, 2013, 3:30 and 7:30 p.m.
Teaching Theater, F. W. Olin Building

Director: Elisabeth Coronel, Florence Gaillard, Arnaud de Mezamat
France, 2011; 88 mins.
In French and English (English subtitles)

In AS A YOUNG GIRL OF 13, Holocaust survivor Simone Lagrange recounts in detail her life before the war, her deportation to Auschwitz-Birkenau, and her role in bringing Nazi war criminal Klaus Barbie to justice. Essentially an extended conversation interspersed with archival images and earlier footage of Lagrange, AS A YOUNG GIRL OF 13 is an engaging portrait of a woman determined to never let her spirit be broken.
Adapted from icarusfilms.com