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MLLI Department Lecture Hanno Balz, visiting assistant professor of history, Johns Hopkins University “Manufacturing ‘Terrorism’: The Media and the Red Army Faction, 1970-1977” Thursday, October 20, 7 p.m. Albin O. Kuhn Library Gallery In the aftermath of the revolt of the 1960s, the discourse on politics in West Germany appeared intensified and determined by ideological …

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MLLI Film Festival Wednesday, April 8 | 7 p.m. Polisse (2011)   Administration Building Room 101 Based on real cases from the Paris Child Protection Unit, Polisse examines the brutal tasks of ten CPU officers, bringing together an ensemble cast composed of some of the finest actors working in France today, including Marina Foïs, Karin Viard, and Jérémie Elkaïm. …

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MLLI Film Festival Friday, April 10 | 2:30 p.m. Manshin: Ten Thousand Spirits (2013) Physics Building Room 101 Manshin: Ten Thousand Spirits is a documentary/drama/fantasy film about a woman who was shunned for being possessed by spirits as a girl. Based on the life story of Korea’s most famous living shaman, Kim Keum-hwa, this film shows how …

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MLLI Film Festival Tuesday, April 14 | 7 p.m. Oh Boy/A Coffee in Berlin (2012) Public Policy Building Room 105  Niko hasn’t found his calling nor his niche in life yet after dropping out of his law studies at the university and getting cut off from further funding by his father. Drifting through life and the Berlin urban …

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MLLI Film Festival Thursday, April 16 | 7:15 p.m. The German Doctor (2013) Physics Building Room 101 A German doctor (Alex Brendemühl) meets an Argentinian family and follows them on a long desert road to a small town where the family will be starting a new life. Eva (Natalia Oreiro), Enzo (Diego Peretti) and their three children …

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MLLI Friday, April 24 | 6:30-8 p.m. ITE Building Room 104 Victory in Europe Day—known as V-E Day—commemorates May 8, 1945, the date when the World War II Allies (including the United States, Britain, France, and the Soviet Union) formally accepted the unconditional surrender of Nazi Germany. The UMBC Russian Club with support of the …

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MLLI Film Festival Monday, April 6 | 7 p.m. The Kid with a Bike (2011) Sherman Hall Room 003 Jean-Pierre and Luc Dardenne’s sublime tale of love and redemption begins with an 11-year-old boy in frantic, desperate motion. Refusing to acknowledge that he’s been abandoned by his father, Cyril escapes the children’s home where he’s been living, hoping …

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MLLI Film Festival  Tuesday, March 3 | 7:00 p.m. Juan of the Dead (Alejandro Brugués, Spain-Cuba 2011) Public Policy Building Room 105 Juan is 40 years old, most of which he spent in Cuba doing absolutely nothing. Suddenly some strange things start to happen, people are turning violent and attacking one another. Juan was first convinced …

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MLLI Film Festival Wednesday, March 4 | 7:00 p.m. Administration Building, Room 101  Based on thousands of true cases of a practice that lasted centuries until the 1950s, this popular Swiss feature film follows the story of Max, who is contracted out of an orphanage to a peasant farmer, where, to escape brutal physical labor, starvation, …

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MLLI Film Festival Monday, March 9 | 7:00 p.m. Sherman Hall, Room 003 A middle-school teacher (played by Takako Matsu), whose four-year-old daughter is found dead, is convinced that two of her students were response for her daughter’s murder. No one believes her, and she may very well be wrong, but she decides, nevertheless, that it’s …

Confessions (Japan, Tetsuya Nakashima, 2010) Read More »