1. International Film Festival UNC Charlotte Monsieur Lazhar Tuesday, March 10, 3:30 pm Student Union Movie Theater Main Campus Director Philippe Falardeau Canada, 2011, 94 min In French, English, Arabic with English subtitles “ A classroom is a place of friendship, of work, of courtesy, a place of life.” M. Lazhar earns the respect and trust of his pupils, some of them the children of immigrants or, like this devoted instructor, recent arrivals to Quebec. As the reasons for M. Lazhar’s immigration to Canada from Algeria are made clear, so, too is his rather unconventional method for applying for the teaching position.

2. International Film Festival UNC Charlotte La Yuma Tuesday, March 10 5:00 pm Burson 110 UNC Charlotte Main Campus Director Florence Jaugey Nicaragua, 2011, 91 min In Spanish with English subtitles Nicaragua’s first full-length feature in 20 years, La Yuma tells the story of a young woman who dreams of transcending her bleak life in the slums of Managua by becoming a boxer.

3. International Film Festival UNC Charlotte 归途列车 / Last Train Home Wednesday, March 11, 7:00 pm Student Union Movie Theater UNC Charlotte Main Campus Director Lixin Fan China, 2010, 85 min In Chinese, Sichuan dialect, with English subtitles Every spring, China’s cities are plunged into chaos as 130 million migrant workers journey to their home villages for the New Year’s holiday. This mass exodus is the world’s largest human migration—an epic spectacle that reveals a country tragically caught between its rural past and industrial future.

4. International Film Festival UNC Charlotte Un Cuento Chino/ Chinese Take-Away Saturday, March 14, 1:00pm UNC Charlotte Center City Amphitheater Director Sebastián Borensztein Argentina, Spain, 2012, 98 min In Spanish with English subtitles Roberto, a gruff, anti-social loner, lords over his tiny hardware shop in Buenos Aires with a meticulous sense of control and routine, barely allowing for the slightest of customer foibles. After a chance encounter with Jun, a Chinese man who has arrived in Argentina looking for his only living relative, Roberto takes him in.

5. International Film Festival UNC Charlotte Quai d’Orsay/ The French Minister Saturday, March 14 3:00pm Charlotte Center City Lecture Hall Director: Bertrand Tavernier France, 2013, 113 min In French with English subtitles Quai d’Orsay is a razor-sharp satire of politics, both those enacted on the world stage and within the corridors of workplaces.

6. International Film Festival UNC Charlotte El Regreso / The Return Saturday, March 14 3:00pm Charlotte Center City Amphitheater Director: Hernán Jiménez Costa Rica, 2012, 95 min. After living 10 years in New York, 30-year- old Antonio returns to San José, where he is forced to deal with the realities he ran away from.

7. International Film Festival UNC Charlotte Ernest et Célestine Saturday, March 14, 1:00 pm Charlotte Center City Lecture Hall Directors: Stéphane Aubier, Vincent Patar, Benjamin Renner France, 2012, 80 min In French with English subtitles In an unnamed French city, two different realms of sworn enemies exist: Above ground live bears; below it reside mice. Celestine, a wee mouse orphan who is being trained for a career in dentistry but dreams of being an artist instead, meets a kindred spirit in adult Ernest, an ursine musician whom she convinces not to eat her.

8. International Film Festival UNC Charlotte Hamoun/ هامون Monday, March 16, 7:00 pm McKnight Hall, Main Campus Director: Dariush Mehrjui Iran, 1990, 122 min. Farsi with English subtitles Hamoun’s wife is leaving him. He is also unsuccessfully trying to finish his Ph.D. thesis. He is forced to reexamine his life. In a series of flashbacks and dreams, Hamoun tries to figure out what he did wrong.

9. International Film Festival UNC Charlotte Arrugas/Wrinkles Tuesday, March 17 5:00pm Burson 110, Main Campus Director: Ignacio Ferreras Spain, 2014, 89 min In Spanish with English subtitles When former bank manager Emilio’s family sends him to a retirement home, his new roommate is a wily wheeler-dealer named Miguel who cheerfully swindles small amounts of cash from the more disoriented residents but is also full of handy insider tips that are crucial to survival. An eccentric cast of characters rebel against institutional authority.

10. International Film Festival UNC Charlotte Oh Boy (A Coffee in Berlin) Wednesday, March 18 5:00pm Student Union Movie Theater UNC Charlotte Main Campus Director: Jan Ole Gerster Germany, 2012, 83 min In German with English subtitles Niko, a twenty-something college dropout, is going nowhere fast. One fateful day, through a series of absurdly amusing encounters, everything changes: his girlfriend dumps him, his father cuts off his allowance, and a strange psychiatrist dubiously confirms his ‘emotional imbalance’.

11. International Film Festival UNC Charlotte Ernest et Célestine Wednesday, March 18, 7:00 pm Student Union Movie Theater Main campus Directors: Stéphane Aubier, Vincent Patar, Benjamin Renner France, 2012, 80 min In French with English subtitles In an unnamed French city, two different realms of sworn enemies exist: Above ground live bears; below it reside mice. Celestine, a wee mouse orphan who is being trained for a career in dentistry but dreams of being an artist instead, meets a kindred spirit in adult Ernest, an ursine musician whom she convinces not to eat her.

12. International Film Festival UNC Charlotte O homem que copiava The Man Who Copied Thursday, March 19, 5:00pm UNC Charlotte Main Campus CHHS 145 Director Jorge Furtado Brazil, 2003, 124 min Portuguese with English subtitles André, a poor guy who lives in south Brazil, falls in love with Sílvia, a neighbor on whom he spies everyday with a pair of binoculars. He works as a photocopy machine operator in a convenience store and he earns a very low salary. In order to get closer to her, he starts making copies of bills to have money to ask her out.

13. International Film Festival UNC Charlotte Arrugas/Wrinkles Saturday, March 21,1:00pm Charlotte Center City Amphitheater Director: Ignacio Ferreras Spain, 2014, 89 min In Spanish with English subtitles When former bank manager Emilio’s family sends him to a retirement home, his new roommate is a wily wheeler-dealer named Miguel who cheerfully swindles small amounts of cash from the more disoriented residents but is also full of handy insider tips that are crucial to survival. An eccentric cast of characters rebel against institutional authority.

14. International Film Festival UNC Charlotte El Regreso / The Return Saturday, March 21, 3:00pm Charlotte Center City Amphitheater Director: Hernán Jiménez Costa Rica, 2012, 95 min. After living 10 years in New York, 30- year-old Antonio returns to San José, where he is forced to deal with the realities he ran away from.

15. International Film Festival UNC Charlotte Poulet aux prunes Chicken with Plums Monday March 23, 5:00pm McKnight Hall, Main Campus Directors: Marjane Satrapi and Vincent Paronnaud Iran/France, 2011, 93 min In French with English subtitles As Nasser-Ali takes to his bed, where he plans to expire, the film recalls the source of his sorrow, stretching all the way back to his childhood. The talented musician’s unhappy marriage to schoolteacher Faringuisse is recounted, as well as his distant relationship to his two young children (whose own fates are presented in droll flash- forward). Soon the real reason for Nasser-Ali’s anguish becomes clear: the rupture of his first— and only—great love affair, with a beautiful woman called Irâne.

16. International Film Festival UNC Charlotte Who Is Dayani Cristal? ¿Quién es Dayani Cristal? Tuesday, March 24, 5:00pm CHHS 145, Main Campus Director: Marc Silver Mexico, USA, 2014, 85 min In English and Spanish with English subtitles Deep in the sun-blistered Sonora desert beneath a cicada tree, Arizona border police discover a decomposing male body. Lifting a tattered T-shirt they expose a tattoo that reads “Dayani Cristal.” Who is this person? What brought him here? How did he die? And who—or what—is Dayani Cristal?

17. International Film Festival UNC Charlotte Quai d’Orsay/ The French Minister Wednesday, March 25 3:00pm Student Union Movie Theater Main Campus Director: Bertrand Tavernier France, 2013, 113 min In French with English subtitles Quai d’Orsay is a razor-sharp satire of politics, both those enacted on the world stage and within the corridors of workplaces.

18. International Film Festival UNC Charlotte Tale of Iya Iya Monogatari: Okunohito Wednesday, March 25 5:30 pm Student Union Movie Theater Main Campus Director Tsuta Tetsuichiro Japan, 2013, 169 mins In Japanese with English subtitles Tsuta Tetsuichiro, the director, writer, and editor of The Tale of Iya, will attend the screening! Haruna and her grandfather (played by the legendary dancer-actor Tanaka Min) live in a hermetic world of rural Tokushima, growing their own food and hunting in the forest. Change arrives with a young man from Tokyo, just as Haruna must decide whether to stay in the village or move to the city.

19. International Film Festival UNC Charlotte Viva la libertà Long Live Freedom Sunday, March 29 5:30pm UNC Charlotte Center City Director Roberto Andò Italy, 2013, 94 min. In Italian with English subtitles Dramedy based on a novel by Roberto Andò Enrico, the leader of Italy’s opposition party, suddenly drops out of sight; his team decides to replace him temporarily with Ernani, his bipolar identical twin, fresh from the madhouse. Unexpectedly, Ernani takes over his brother’s political role and becomes very popular.

20. International Film Festival UNC Charlotte Горько/Kiss them all Tuesday, March 31, 5:00 pm Student Union Movie Theater, UNC Charlotte Main Campus Director: Zhora Kryzhovnikov Russia, 2013, 100 min In Russian with English subtitles Progressive and talented Natasha and Roma dream of a European wedding on the beach, but Natasha’s stepfather has other ideas. As a city manager, he thinks the festivities should be a springboard for his own career and tries to arrange everything accordingly. An evening in a restaurant complete with all of the boring traditions is prepared for the young couple. Finding themselves unable to argue, the pair decides to have their dream wedding anyway, but to keep it secret from their conservative relatives.

21. International Film Festival UNC Charlotte Shorts from Russia and UNC Charlotte Wednesday, April 1, 2:30 pm Student Union Movie Theater, UNC Charlotte Main Campus Three different stories and tree different outlooks. “Not a word about your mom” follows the steps of a young sophisticated woman who is stuck with the daughter pattern, hunted by the vivid presence of her deceased mother. “To leave or not to leave” catches a talented scientist right before he is ready to leave his old life in Russia and start a new one in the USA. The film “By accident” is a dark comedy which lets us spend new year’s eve with a Russian family who eats, drinks, toasts, watches TV and commits murder with the same nonchalant attitude. To leave or not to leave Валить нельзя остаться Not a word about your mother Ни слова о твоей матери By accident (Unintentionally) Нечаянно

22. International Film Festival UNC Charlotte Mauvais Sang The Night is Young Wednesday, April 1, 5:00pm Student Union Movie Theater, UNC Charlotte Main Campus Director Leos Carax France, 1986 & 2013, 105 min In French with English subtitles Alex, a conjuror and card sharp, teams up with gangster Marc (Michel Piccoli). All- consuming passion is ignited once Alex sees Anna (Juliette Binoche) on a bus, only to discover that she is Marc’s lover.

23. International Film Festival UNC Charlotte L’image manquante/ The Missing Picture Tuesday April 2, 2:00 pm COED 010, Main Campus Director Rithy Panh France, Cambodia, 2013, 92 min In French with English subtitles Rithy Panh ingeniously uses carved and painted figures to represent himself and his family (and many others), who had to flee Phnom Penh for agricultural labor camps on April 17, 1975, the day that the Khmer Rouge seized Cambodia’s capital city. d

24. International Film Festival UNC Charlotte Une bouteille à la mer A Bottle in the Gaza Sea Tuesday April 2, 6:00pm Main Campus, COED 010 Director Thierry Binisti Israel / France, 2012, 99 min In Hebrew, Arabic, French with English subtitles Tal is a 17-year-old Frenchwoman who has settled in Jerusalem with her family. She writes a letter expressing her refusal to accept that only hatred can reign between Israelis and Palestinians. She slips the letter into a bottle, and her brother throws it into the sea near Gaza. A few weeks later, Tal receives a response from a mysterious “Gazaman,” a young Palestinian named Naim. Sponsored by the Charlotte Jewish Film Festival d