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EU Film Festival 2025
January 23 @ 6:00 pm - January 27 @ 7:00 pm
Join CES for the 2025 EU Film Festival! From January 23-27, in FedEx GEC 1005, we’ll be screening films and hosting discussions with UNC faculty that speak to contemporary challenges facing Europe, the EU, and the transatlantic relationship. These events are CLE Credit Eligible! Parking is available in the GEC deck during the screenings.
January 23, 6:00 pm | Roter Himmel
A group of friends are in a holiday home by the Baltic Sea where emotions run high as the parched forest around them catches fire.
Faculty Discussant
TBA
January 24, 1:00pm | Flowers of Ukraine
A strong, independent and anarchist woman full of humor sets out to protect her piece of land against all odds. Her struggle becomes even more existential with attack on Ukraine, never giving up and bringing to the viewers sense of hope.
Faculty Discussant
TBA
January 26, 3:00pm | Duty of Care
With echoes of the lawsuits against Big Tobacco, this inspirational 55-minute documentary gives viewers a behind-the-scenes experience of the David v. Goliath battle as one Dutch property lawyer turned litigation maverick takes on powerful states and the world’s largest oil company in the court room drama of our lifetimes.
Faculty Discussant
TBA
January 26, 3:00pm | Alcarrás
The life of a family of peach farmers in a small village in Catalonia changes when the owner of their large estate dies and his lifetime heir decides to sell the land, suddenly threatening their livelihood.
Faculty Discussant
TBA
January 27, 6:00pm | The Animal Kingdom
An adventure between a father and his son, in a world where some humans have started mutating into other animal species.
Faculty Discussant
TBA
The EU Film Festival is cosponsored by the Center for Slavic, Eurasian, and East European Studies, the Department of Germanic and Slavic Languages and Literatures, the Department of Romance Studies, and the UNC Film Studies program.
