Film Series

Jan 30 at 7pm  at IU Fine Arts downstairs (FA 015) ♦ Q&A with the filmmaker Jacky Comforty follows the screening On March 9th, 1943, police arrived at the home […]

Winner of top prizes at the Venice and Mumbai film festivals, Chaitanya Tamhane’s Court is a quietly devastating, absurdist portrait of injustice, caste prejudice, and venal politics in contemporary India. An elderly folk singer and grassroots organizer, dubbed the “people’s poet,” is arrested on a trumped-up charge of inciting a sewage worker to commit suicide.

A young woman makes a surprising discovery about her best friend’s husband in this delectable comedy/drama from France, based on a short story by Ruth Rendell. NY Times Critics’ Pick!