Explore the world through six award-winning international films presented in their original language with English subtitles. Each film is followed by COD faculty-led discussion.
Global Flicks is co-sponsored by COD Field Studies/Study Abroad and McAninch Arts Center.
Click here for a research guide created by COD Library staff, providing film reviews, themes and background on each featured country.
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Global Flicks ArchiveWednesday, Feb 5 | 1:30 & 7:30p
Wicked Little Letters Director: Thea Sharrock England | Drama/Comedy, 2023 1h, 40m | English Based on a stranger than fiction true story of a scandal that rocked an English seaside town. Right after World War I, two neighbors are involved in a letter scandal: Edith Swan-a deeply conservative local who lives with her parents, and…
Wednesday, Feb 12 | 1:30 & 7:30p
Even The Rain Director: Icíar Bollaín Bolvia | Drama, 2010 1h, 43m | Spanish, Quechua, English While making a historical film about the incursion of Christopher Columbus in the New World, the director finds that the Bolivian locals, cast as extras in the production, are protesting the privatization of their water supply. The film parallels…
Wednesday, Feb 19 | 1:30 & 7:30p
Broker Director: Hirokazu Koreeda South Korea | Drama, 2022 2h, 9m | Korean The Broker is a heartfelt drama about an unlikely group brought together by abandoned children. In South Korea, a young mother decides to give her newborn child to a church for adoption. When she reconsiders her choice, she discovers an illegal baby…
Wednesday, Feb 26 | 1:30 & 7:30p
Miss Hokusai Director: Keiichia Hara Japan | Drama/Anime, 2015 1h, 33m | Japanese Miss Hokusai is based on the life and works of Japanese artist and ukiyo-e painter Katsushika Hokusai, as seen from the perspective of his talented and fiercely independent daughter, Katsushika O-Ei. Set in 19th century Edo, the animated film is presented in…
Wednesday, Mar 5 | 1:30 & 7:30p
XTrillion Director: Eleanor Church North Pacific | Documentary, 2024 1h, 8m | English X Trillion follows the grueling journey of an all-women, 14-member crew who sail 3,000 miles across the North Pacific Ocean through the densest accumulation of ocean plastic on the planet. The international crew includes scientists, sailors, designers, engineers and teachers on a…
Wednesday, Mar 12 | 1:30 & 7:30p
Of Gods & Men Director: Xavier Beauvois France, Drama/History 2h, 2m | French, Arabic An order of Trappist-Catholic monks live among the Muslim population in a quiet corner of Algeria. In the mid-1990s, the country is plunged into civil war and the men of God must decide whether to stay to continue their religious work…
