Films are screened in the Dan and Mary Miller Auditorium. All programs are free and open to the public unless otherwise stated. No tickets required. Eckerd College is located at 4200 54th Avenue South, St. Petersburg, Florida. Click here for driving directions and maps to Eckerd College. For further information, please contact the Eckerd College Office of Communications at 727-864-7979. The International Cinema Series is coordinated by Nathan Andersen, Associate Professor of Philosophy.

All films are shown at 7 pm.

Spring Semester 2012

February 10, 2012 - 7pm

Le Havre
Directed by Aki Kaurismaki (French with English Subtitles, 93m, 2011)

An aging shoeshiner develops an unlikely friendship with a young African refugee. The latest film by Finnish auteur and master of deadpan humor and political satire, Aki Kaurismaki.

February 17, 2012 - 7pm

The Turin Horse
Directed by Bela Tarr (Hungarian with English Subtitles, 146m, 2011)

Shortly before his mental breakdown, the German philosopher Friedrich Nietzsche witnessed the beating of an old horse by a peasant in a cart. He tried to stop the beating, and when he couldn't he broke down and wept. This film imagines the story of what happened to that horse, and of the father and daughter who depended on it for their livelihood in a desolate landscape. Offered in collaboration with the "Visions of Nature/Voices of Nature" Environmental Film Festival.

February 24, 2012 - 7pm

OKA!
Directed by Lavinia Currier (English and French with English subtitles, 106m, 2011)

In a unique blending of fiction and ethnographic documentary, this film tells the story of an eccentric American ethnomusicologist, who lived among the Bayaka pygmies in Central Africa for 25 years, and his quest to capture their unique music. Offered in collaboration with the "Visions of Nature/Voices of Nature" Environmental Film Festival.

March 2, 2012 - 7pm

Melancholia
Directed by Lars von Trier (English, 136m, 2011)

A large family gathers for a wedding celebration, as a massive planet threatens to collide with the Earth. Lars von Trier's latest film is possibly his most accessible, and likely his most beautifully shot film, but manages to deal deftly with issues both personal and cosmic.

March 9, 2012 - 7pm

Once Upon a Time in Anatolia
Directed by Nuri Bilge Ceylan (Turkish with English subtitles, 150m, 2011)

An atmospheric and meditative murder mystery unravels as police search for a missing body in the Turkish countryside.

March 16 & March 23, 2012

No films due to spring recess

March 30, 2012 - 7pm

The Skin I Live In
Directed by Pedro Almodovar (Spanish with English subtitles, 117m, 2011)

A brilliant and obsessed plastic surgeon designs the perfect synthetic skin, and tests it on the mysterious woman he holds captive in his home.

April 6, 2012

No films due to Good Friday