Beyond appreciating their visual textures and evocative sounds, one of the many reasons why we watch films is for their power to illuminate our own lived experience. Great stories, whether epic or intimate in scale, can register with our own sense of the world, invoking familiar feelings and affinities. What's a Matta U?, an ongoing series beginning this fall, considers what it means to be a student (or anyone, for that matter) who has grappled with social identity, peer pressure, body image, and other dynamic factors that influence how we become who we are. Every two months we'll see a film selected and introduced by Reyna Cowan, a psychotherapist and KPFA film critic. After each screening, our host will guide us in critically reading the film, and help us to create a method for reading ourselves.