Indie Cinema Goes Global

Three Wednesday evenings from February 12, 19:00 - 20:30

Want to find out more about world cinema? Julian Bowker presents, for discussion, a selection of modern classics produced outside of the mainstream.

Covering different countries Julian will provide contextual and textual analysis to each selected film. No previous knowledge of the films is required. Expect key extracts from each film with plenty of opportunity for talk and sharing of opinions.

Films covered for this course will be:

From Turkey, Mustang (2015)
Deniz Gamze Ergüven’s debut feature portraying life for five orphaned sisters living in modern Turkey and the issues of growing up in a patriarchal and conservative society.

From Russia, Leviathan (2014)
Andrey Zvyagintsev’s Oscar and BAFTA nominated crime drama where local family man, Koyla, stands up to his small town’s corrupt mayor. Says Peter Bradshaw; ‘stunningly shot and on a grand scale – cinema of grandeur’

And from Japan, Monster (2023)
Japan’s prolific Hirokazu Koreeda (Shoplifters, Broker) most recent film; a coming of age drama that uses different takes on a single story to tell the fraught tale of two troubled boys.