Events Calendar

Cinematheque is an informal film series curated by the UI International Writing Program (IWP) Fall Residents, who introduce and lead conversations around films they have chosen to show to the UI community.
These films are all by/with/for/about IWP 2018 Fall Residents. Free & open to all!
10/21 (The last screening of the 2018 season!):
Babazi 
(Georgia, 2012) (25 min)
Written and directed by Iva Pezuashvili (IWP ’18, Georgia)
and
Warm Ashes
(Mongolia, 1991) (77 min)
Dir. G. Jigjidsüren
Followed by a Q&A with Iva Pezuashvili (IWP, Georgia) and Bayasgalan Batsuuri (IWP, Mongolia)
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Babazi author's summary:
Babazi is living in absurd, and absurd lives inside of Babazi. So, when a grown man is sitting in his house drawing f***ing hedgehogs, just leave him alone. Otherwise you can be sure that story will end not with a classic happy ending.
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On Warm Ashes:
“Planet Earth is hit by meteors. In a far-away place, made out of rocks and rubble, a father and his two daughters seem to be the only survivors. They wander through the hostile landscape, imploring gods to help them meet other humans. In vain. After some time, they all three start wondering how to perpetuate humankind. The father will take a dramatic decision.
Warm Ashes, the second part of the unofficial Close to Death trilogy, poet Lkhagvasuren Bavuu and director Jigjidsuren Gombojav push censorship’s limits with this folktale adaptation. The lack of budget doesn’t affect the landscape’s natural beauty, nor the very serious content of this sassy fable – and certainly not during its last nihilistic part. One of the most beautiful Mongol movies ever made.” - Festival des Cinemas d’Asie