INTERNATIONAL CINEMA
INTERNATIONAL CINEMA

PLAYING THIS WEEK

Film still from Lorena, Light-Footed Woman (2018). Image of three woman walking down a dirt path in the mountains.
Film still from Total Trust (2023). Image of a woman and son being filmed on a phone, the boy holding an iPad with an image of his father.
Film still from And, Towards Happy Alleys (2023). Image of a woman sitting on a salt flat, a man on a horse in the water in the distance.
Film still from Los Olvidados (1950). Image of a boy standing at an open door, watching as another, younger, boy iron smiths.

LORENA, LIGHT FOOTED WOMAN (2018)
Directed by Juan Carlos Rulfo
Spanish, Tarahumara, 28 min.

 

In the mountains of Chihuahua, Lorena Ramírez herds goats, tends to her family, and runs ultramarathons in sandals and a traditional dress — and wins. This luminous short documentary celebrates a Rarámuri woman whose quiet life and feet carry the weight of an ancient culture.

 

SINGLE SCREENING OF THIS FILM!

Wednesday, Sep. 30th—5:00PM
          Followed by a Q&A with the director, Juan Carlos Rulfo

TOTAL TRUST (2023)
Directed by Jialing Zhang
Mandarin, 97 min.

The Age of AI

 

In China, big data and government power combine to perfect control over citizens. Three women fight for their rights against a surveillance state that employs facial recognition, big data analysis, and behavioural scoring systems. What does truth matter when the state can simply manufacture its own?

Wednesday, Sep. 30 — 6:50PM
Thursday, Oct. 1 — 8:20PM
Friday, Oct. 2 — 4:15PM
Saturday, Oct. 3 — 5:30PM
Saturday, Oct. 3 — 9:15PM

AND, TOWARDS HAPPY ALLEYS (2023)
Directed by Sreemoyee Singh
Persian, 75 min.

Poetry

 

An Indian filmmaker travels to Tehran, learns Farsi, and spends six years in conversation with Jafar Panahi, Nasrin Sotoudeh, and others living under the shadow of censorship and imprisonment. A tender love letter to Iranian cinema, poetry, and the women refusing to be silenced.

 

Thursday, Oct. 1 — 5:00PM
Thursday, Oct. 1 — 10:20PM
Friday, Oct. 2 — 6:15PM
Friday, Oct. 2 — 9:35PM

LOS OLVIDADOS (1950)
Directed by Luis Buñuel
Spanish, 80 min.

Roots and Routes

 

In the slums of Mexico City, street kids prey on the weak and on each other. Buñuel's unsparing masterpiece offers no redemption for the poor — only the brutal logic of survival. Surrealism flickers beneath the gritty surface. One of cinema's most haunting cries of social fury.

 

Thursday, Oct. 1 — 6:40PM
Friday, Oct. 2 — 2:30PM
Friday, Oct. 2 — 7:55PM
Saturday, Oct. 3 — 7:30PM

Upcoming Q&A

Introduction and Post Screening Q&A with Filmmaker Juan Carlos Rulfo about his short Lorena, Light Footed Woman


Juan Carlos Rulfo is an acclaimed Mexican documentary filmmaker known for his poetic, intimate portraits of Mexican life and identity. His film En el hoyo won the Grand Jury Prize for International Documentary at Sundance, and his short, Lorena, Light-Footed Woman, following ultramarathon runner Lorena Ramírez — won the Silver Ariel Award for Best Short Documentary.

Film still from Lorena, Light-Footed Woman (2018). Image of three woman walking down a dirt path in the mountains.

FOLLOWING THE SINGLE SCREENING OF
Lorena, Light Footed Woman
(Juan Carlos Rulfo, Spanish, Tarahumara, 2018, 28 min.)

Film Starts @ 5:00 PM
Wednesday, September 30
250 KMBL

Upcoming Events

Post Screening Q&A with Director Doug Cunningham about his short film Daughter of the Plains

Douglas Cunningham is a film historian and independent filmmaker who serves as an adjunct professor of film studies and humanities at BYU. A retired U.S. Air Force officer, he taught literature and film at the U.S. Air Force Academy for five years during his 20-year military career, and earned his Ph.D. in Film Studies from UC Berkeley. As a filmmaker, he wrote and directed the award-winning short Daughter of the Plains (2025).

 

FOLLOWING THE SINGLE SCREENING OF
Daughter of the Plains
(Doug Cunningham, English, 2025, 38 min.)

Film Starts @ 5:00 PM
Wednesday, October 7
250 KMBL

In Collaboration with BYU’s Museum of Art: An Introduction to Gordon Parks Life and Art by Kirk Sharp

Kirk Sharp has served as Executive Director of the Gordon Parks Museum at Fort Scott Community College since 2019, dedicated to honoring the life and legacy of photographer, filmmaker, writer, and musician Gordon Parks. Sharp has been involved with the museum since 2004, working to advance its mission of using Parks’s story to teach artistic creativity, cultural awareness, and the role of diversity in our lives.

 

FOLLOWING THE SINGLE SCREENING OF
The Learning Tree
(Gordon Parks, English, 1969, 107 min.)

Lecture @ 5:00 PM
Film Starts @ 5:35 PM
Wednesday, October 21
250 KMBL

Next Week's Showtimes

Wednesday,
Oct. 10

Daughter of the Plains (2025)
5:00PM 

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Post Screening Q&A With Director, Doug Cunningham

Poetry (2010)
6:55PM 

Thursday,
Oct. 11

Happyend (2024)
5:00PM 

Poetry (2010)
7:15PM 

Omaha (2024)
9:55PM 

Friday,
Oct. 12

Poetry (2010)
2:30PM 

Happyend (2024)
5:10PM 

Omaha (2024)
7:25PM 

Poetry (2010)
9:10PM 

Saturday,
Oct. 13

Happyend (2024)
10:30AM 

Omaha (2024)
12:45PM 

Poetry (2010)
2:30PM 

Happyend (2024)
5:10PM

Omaha (2024)
7:30PM

Happyend (2024)
9:15PM

International Cinema Podcast

The International Cinema Podcast, Winter 2026, Episode 6. Title: Cría Cuervos. Film still from the film, Cría Cuervos.
The International Cinema Podcast, Winter 2026, Episode 5. Title: Round Midnight. Film still from the film, Round Midnight.
The International Cinema Podcast, Winter 2026, Episode 4. Title: The Taste of Things. Image of a man and woman smiling at each other.

International Cinema Newsletter

red curtain in the background with white letters that read: International Cinema

PLAYING THIS WEEK

Film still from Lorena, Light-Footed Woman (2018). Image of three woman walking down a dirt path in the mountains.

LORENA, LIGHT FOOTED WOMAN (2018)
Directed by Juan Carlos Rulfo
Spanish, Tarahumara, 28 min.

 

In the mountains of Chihuahua, Lorena Ramírez herds goats, tends to her family, and runs ultramarathons in sandals and a traditional dress — and wins. This luminous short documentary celebrates a Rarámuri woman whose quiet life and feet carry the weight of an ancient culture.

 

SINGLE SCREENING OF THIS FILM!

Wednesday, Sep. 30th—5:00PM
          Followed by a Q&A with the director, Juan Carlos Rulfo

Film still from Total Trust (2023). Image of a woman and son being filmed on a phone, the boy holding an iPad with an image of his father.

TOTAL TRUST (2023)
Directed by Jialing Zhang
Mandarin, 97 min.

The Age of AI

 

In China, big data and government power combine to perfect control over citizens. Three women fight for their rights against a surveillance state that employs facial recognition, big data analysis, and behavioural scoring systems. What does truth matter when the state can simply manufacture its own?

Wednesday, Sep. 30 — 6:50PM
Thursday, Oct. 1 — 8:20PM
Friday, Oct. 2 — 4:15PM
Saturday, Oct. 3 — 5:30PM
Saturday, Oct. 3 — 9:15PM

Film still from And, Towards Happy Alleys (2023). Image of a woman sitting on a salt flat, a man on a horse in the water in the distance.

AND, TOWARDS HAPPY ALLEYS (2023)
Directed by Sreemoyee Singh
Persian, 75 min.

Poetry

 

An Indian filmmaker travels to Tehran, learns Farsi, and spends six years in conversation with Jafar Panahi, Nasrin Sotoudeh, and others living under the shadow of censorship and imprisonment. A tender love letter to Iranian cinema, poetry, and the women refusing to be silenced.

 

Thursday, Oct. 1 — 5:00PM
Thursday, Oct. 1 — 10:20PM
Friday, Oct. 2 — 6:15PM
Friday, Oct. 2 — 9:35PM

Film still from Los Olvidados (1950). Image of a boy standing at an open door, watching as another, younger, boy iron smiths.

LOS OLVIDADOS (1950)
Directed by Luis Buñuel
Spanish, 80 min.

Roots and Routes

 

In the slums of Mexico City, street kids prey on the weak and on each other. Buñuel's unsparing masterpiece offers no redemption for the poor — only the brutal logic of survival. Surrealism flickers beneath the gritty surface. One of cinema's most haunting cries of social fury.

 

Thursday, Oct. 1 — 6:40PM
Friday, Oct. 2 — 2:30PM
Friday, Oct. 2 — 7:55PM
Saturday, Oct. 3 — 7:30PM

Upcoming Q&A

Introduction and Post Screening Q&A with Filmmaker Juan Carlos Rulfo about his short Lorena, Light Footed Woman


Juan Carlos Rulfo is an acclaimed Mexican documentary filmmaker known for his poetic, intimate portraits of Mexican life and identity. His film En el hoyo won the Grand Jury Prize for International Documentary at Sundance, and his short, Lorena, Light-Footed Woman, following ultramarathon runner Lorena Ramírez — won the Silver Ariel Award for Best Short Documentary.

FOLLOWING THE SINGLE SCREENING OF
Lorena, Light Footed Woman
(Juan Carlos Rulfo, Spanish, Tarahumara, 2018, 28 min.)

Film Starts @ 5:00 PM
Wednesday, September 30
250 KMBL

Upcoming Events

In Collaboration with BYU’s Museum of Art: An Introduction to Gordon Parks Life and Art by Kirk Sharp

Kirk Sharp has served as Executive Director of the Gordon Parks Museum at Fort Scott Community College since 2019, dedicated to honoring the life and legacy of photographer, filmmaker, writer, and musician Gordon Parks. Sharp has been involved with the museum since 2004, working to advance its mission of using Parks’s story to teach artistic creativity, cultural awareness, and the role of diversity in our lives.

 

FOLLOWING THE SINGLE SCREENING OF
The Learning Tree
(Gordon Parks, English, 1969, 107 min.)

Lecture @ 5:00 PM
Film Starts @ 5:35 PM
Wednesday, October 21
250 KMBL

Post Screening Q&A with Director Doug Cunningham about his short film Daughter of the Plains

Douglas Cunningham is a film historian and independent filmmaker who serves as an adjunct professor of film studies and humanities at BYU. A retired U.S. Air Force officer, he taught literature and film at the U.S. Air Force Academy for five years during his 20-year military career, and earned his Ph.D. in Film Studies from UC Berkeley. As a filmmaker, he wrote and directed the award-winning short Daughter of the Plains (2025).

 

FOLLOWING THE SINGLE SCREENING OF
Daughter of the Plains
(Doug Cunningham, English, 2025, 38 min.)

Film Starts @ 5:00 PM
Wednesday, October 7
250 KMBL

Next Week's Showtimes

Wednesday,
Oct. 10

Daughter of the Plains (2025)
5:00PM 

----------

Post Screening Q&A With Director, Doug Cunningham

Poetry (2010)
6:55PM 

Thursday,
Oct. 11

Happyend (2024)
5:00PM 

Poetry (2010)
7:15PM 

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Omaha (2024)
9:55PM 

Friday,
Oct. 12

Poetry (2010)
2:30PM 

Happyend (2024)
5:10PM 

------------------------------------

Omaha (2024)
7:25PM 

Poetry (2010)
9:10PM 

Saturday,
Oct. 13

Happyend (2024)
10:30AM 

Omaha (2024)
12:45PM 

------------------------------------

Poetry (2010)
2:30PM 

Happyend (2024)
5:10PM

------------------------------------

Omaha (2024)
7:30PM

Happyend (2024)
9:15PM

International Cinema Podcast

The International Cinema Podcast, Winter 2026, Episode 6. Title: Cría Cuervos. Film still from the film, Cría Cuervos.
The International Cinema Podcast, Winter 2026, Episode 5. Title: Round Midnight. Film still from the film, Round Midnight.
The International Cinema Podcast, Winter 2026, Episode 4. Title: The Taste of Things. Image of a man and woman smiling at each other.
red curtain in the background with white letters that read: International Cinema