Film series: Campus Collaborations

A young woman wearing a headscarf faces a reflective glass surface, creating a close-up double image of her face. Blue and purple light patterns ripple across the reflection.

Our “Campus Collaborations” series is emblematic of Cornell Cinema’s commitment to advancing interdisciplinary teaching and learning across campus through collective encounters with the art of film.

Each semester, we collaborate with departments, programs, and organizations to bring to campus a dynamic range of contemporary and classic films that amplify urgent global issues, highlight cutting-edge research, and spark community dialogue.

These partnership screenings encourage students, scholars, and our general audience to embrace filmmaking as an essential critical lens and educational platform that can inspire new ways of seeing and understanding our shared world.

Highlights of the fall semester include a year-long exploration of cinema and Near Eastern Studies, partnerships with the Institute of African Development, the South Asia Program, the Migrations Program, the Southwest Asia and North African Program, and the Department of Linguistics, and a special family-friendly animated film presented in collaboration with the Ukrainian Program at Cornell.

Cornell Cinema will also proudly be cosponsoring two screenings at the Schwartz Center for Performing Arts: Power Alley (Levante) will screen on Tuesday, September 15, at 7 p.m. as part of the fourth annual Ithaca Reproductive Rights Film Festival and a special 50th anniversary screening and discussion of films from the Victor Jara Collective—The Terror and the Time and In the Sky's Wild Noise—will take place on Monday, October 26, at 4:45pm. Both events are free and open to the public and will take place in the Film Forum at the Schwartz Center for Performing & Media Arts.

All screenings in the “Campus Collaborations” series are free and open to the public. Additional events will be announced throughout the semester.