Cornell Cinema's thematic series kick off this week, starting with a new restoration of Djibril Diop Mambéty's HYENAS on Tuesday. Mambéty was a Senegalese director, actor, composer and poet (and uncle to Cannes award-winner Mati Diop), and we are screening his two feature films this month, both in recent digital restorations. HYENAS tells the story of the world's richest woman returning to the village of her birth to seek revenge upon the man who seduced and abandoned her.
On Wednesday, our series Human Flow: Stories of Global Migration kicks off in earnest with THE CITIZEN, a Hungarian film concerning Wilson, an African refugee who has settled into a comfortable life as a Budapest security guard, as he attempts to gain Hungarian citizenship. Thursday sees our Japanese Cinema series continue with Akira Kurosawa's RASHOMON, featuring an introduction by Andrew Campana (Asian Studies). And our Foodie Films series starts this week with both HONEYLAND and RAMEN SHOP. HONEYLAND is a new documentary about a solitary Macedonian beekeeper and her new neighbors, who have decided to also take up beekeeping, albeit with a less environmentally-friendly method. RAMEN SHOP features the elusive pursuit for a new culinary invention, marrying Japan and Singapore! Contemporary World Cinema begins this weekend with Jia Zhangke's gangster noir ASH IS PUREST WHITE, screening Saturday and Sunday. And our Queer Visions series kicks off with the Elton John biopic ROCKETMAN!
