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Film Screening: Mitra (2021)
January 26 @ 5:30 pm
Join CES for the 2024 EU Film Festival! From January 26-29, 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.
Trailer
Dutch Iranian director Kaweh Modiri sows doubt in viewers while stubborn Haleh is convinced she is right. She determinedly enters the life of Leyla, who has just fled to the Netherlands and lives in a flat with her young daughter. Mitra is based on Mordiri’s own life: his sister Mitra was executed before he was born. He acutely alternated between the sandy-blue of Iran in 1982 and the dark Netherlands. It is a wonderfully shot drama about motherhood that doubles as an atmospheric political thriller.
Faculty Discussant
Dan Thornton teaches Dutch at UNC Chapel Hill. His work has focused on disaster epics in Dutch literature, gender, and other topics.
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.
