PLAYING THIS WEEK:

BITTER RICE (1949)*
Directed by Giuseppe De Santis
Italian, 108 min.

Miscellaneous

During planting season in Northern Italy’s Po Valley, an earthy rice-field worker falls in with a small-time criminal who is planning a daring heist of the crop.

Wednesday, Apr. 2 — 5:00PM Lecture

Wednesday, Apr. 2 — 5:35PM
Thursday, Apr. 3 — 8:30PM
Friday, Apr. 4 — 6:00PM
Informal IC Club — 7:50PM
Saturday, Apr. 5 — 9:40PM

TERRESTRIAL VERSES (2023)*
Directed by Ali Asgari and Alireza Khatami
Persian, 77 min.

Best of Festivals

Terrestrial Verses follows everyday people from all walks of life as they navigate the complicated cultural, religious, and institutional constraints imposed on them by various social authorities from school teachers to bureaucrats.

Wednesday, Apr. 2 — 7:45PM
Thursday, Apr. 3 — 5:00PM
Friday, Apr. 4 — 4:20PM
Saturday, Apr. 5 — 8:00PM

FREE CHOL SOO LEE (2022)*
Directed by Julia Ha and Eugene Yi
English and Korean, 83 min.

Giving Voice

This thoughtful documentary focuses on the case of Chol Soo Lee, a 20-year-old Korean immigrant who is racially profiled and wrongfully imprisoned in 1970s San Francisco. When investigative journalist K. W. Lee begins looking more closely at the case, his work rallies hundreds of others to work toward justice.

Thursday, Apr. 3 — 6:40PM
Friday, Apr. 4 — 2:30PM
Friday, Apr. 4 — 8:15PM

Upcoming Faculty Lecture

“Agrarian Verismo & Italian Neorealism: Giuseppe De Santis's Bitter Rice”

Bob Hudson
Chair of the Dept of French & Italian. He received his PhD from UCLA. He has been at BYU since 2008, and this will be his 18th IC presentation. Bob regularly teaches French & Italian Cinema, one of the 6 "must-take GEs" as determined by BYU.edu.

FOLLOWED BY A SCREENING OF
Bitter Rice
(Giuseppe De Santis, Italian, 1949, 108 min.)

Lecture @ 5:00 PM
Wednesday, April 2
250 KMBL

Next Week's Showtimes

Wednesday, Apr. 9

5 PM Faculty Lecture
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Nomadland (2020)
5:35PM

Battleship Potemkin (1925)
7:45PM

Thursday, Apr. 10

The Babushkas of Chernobyl (2016)
5:00PM

Nomadland (2020)
6:35PM

Battleship Potemkin (1925)
8:50PM

Friday, Apr. 11

The Babushkas of Chernobyl (2016)
2:30PM

Battleship Potemkin (1925)
4:00PM

The Babushkas of Chernobyl (2016)
5:35PM

Nomadland (2020)
7:00PM

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9:00PM Informal IC Club

Saturday, Apr. 12

The Babushkas of Chernobyl (2016)
10:30AM

Battleship Potemkin (1925)
12:00PM

Nomadland (2020)
1:35PM

The Babushkas of Chernobyl (2016)
3:55PM

Nomadland (2020)
5:35PM

Battleship Potemkin (1925)
7:50PM

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