What's a Human Anyway? Films from the Global Lens Collection
What's a Human Anyway? Films from the Global Lens Collection
November 11–December 21, 2017
From Tajikistan to Uruguay, Mali to Vietnam, these films offer perspectives on human experience that are both distinctly local and universal.
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Dam Street
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Whisky
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Buffalo Boy
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Kabala
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Angel on the Right
Jamshed Usmonov
Tajikistan, 2002BAMPFA Collection
Saturday, November 11 8 PMView DetailsThis affecting dark comedy depicts the travails of a tough ex-con (and former projectionist) who returns to his small village in Tajikistan.
Buffalo Boy
Nguyen-Vo Nghiem-Minh
Vietnam, 2004BAMPFA Collection
Saturday, November 18 5:30 PMView DetailsThis Vietnamese coming-of-age story about a boy and his buffalo, set in French colonial Indochina circa 1940, won the special prize from the Youth Jury at the Locarno Film Festival.
Whisky
Juan Pablo Rebella, Pablo Stoll
Uruguay, 2004BAMPFA Collection
Sunday, November 19 5 PMView DetailsFrom Uruguay, a deadpan comedy about minor subterfuge and awkward loyalties, “the story of ordinary life artfully and touchingly told” (New York Times). “Swigs from the same bottle as Aki Kaurismäki” (Village Voice).
Kabala
Assane Kouyaté
Mali, 2002BAMPFA Collection
Thursday, December 7 7 PMView DetailsMagic spells lend a helping hand in this poetic feature about a young man’s troubled relationship with his native village in Mali.
In the Battlefields
Danielle Arbid
Lebanon, 2004BAMPFA Collection
Sunday, December 10 7 PMView DetailsA young girl tries to befriend her aunt’s teenage maid in this keenly observed coming-of-age tale from Lebanon, set in war-torn 1980s Beirut.
Dam Street
Li Yu
China, 2005BAMPFA Collection
Friday, December 15 4 PMView DetailsAn unexpected pregnancy transforms the life of a teenage girl in a small riverside town, who still struggles to live down her past ten years later, in Li Yu’s elegantly composed Chinese drama.
What's a Human Anyway?
Reha Erdem
Turkey, 2004BAMPFA Collection
Thursday, December 21 7 PMView DetailsReha Erdem’s innovative group portrait of the inhabitants of an apartment building in Istanbul serves as a comic exploration of what it means to be human.