MY OLD SCHOOL
Fri, Nov 18 at 7:30 • Sat and Sun, Nov 19 and 20 at 4:30 and 7:30 • IU Radio & Television Theater • Purchase Tickets
In 1993, 16-year-old Brandon Lee enrolled at Bearsden Academy, a secondary school in a well-to-do suburb of Glasgow. What followed over the next two years became the stuff of legend. One of the most talked-about documentaries at Sundance, My Old School unravels the astonishing true story of a mysterious new student who may not be who his classmates and teachers believe. (Scotland • 104 min)
Here is a documentary for anyone who’s ever suffered from impostor syndrome or ever fantasized about going back in time to their school days, to reverse all those heartbreaks and humiliations. In other words: all of us. - The Guardian
MY IMAGINARY COUNTRY
Fri, Nov 18 at 7pm • Sat and Sun, Nov 19 and 20 at 4pm and 7pm • IU Fine Arts Theater • Purchase Tickets
In October 2019, there was an unexpected revolution, a social explosion. One and a half million people demonstrated in the streets of Santiago for more democracy, a more dignified life, a better education, a better health system and a new Constitution. Chile had recovered its memory. The event that activist-filmmaker Patricio Guzmán had been waiting for since his student struggles in 1973 had finally materialized.
After decades in which Guzmán saw Chile turn into a sort of “huge mall with windows that didn’t show what was going on behind them,” society at large woke up to see their young turning the streets into battlefields, and the state using disproportionate force against them.
Guzmán was there when the coup against Salvador Allende took place in 1973 — his epic film depicting those events, The Battle of Chile, remains one of the most widely praised documentary films of all time, and was named "one of the 10 best political documentary films in the world" by Cineaste. My Imaginary Country offers filmgoers one of this year’s most keen and perceptive accounts of transformative events and social change happening right before our eyes. As Elisa Loncón, a Mapuche woman who presided over the Constitutional Convention states powerfully: “Marichiweu! The people won’t be defeated!”