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Global Lens 2011 is screening from April 25 - 27, 2011, presented by NYU King Juan Carlos I of Spain Center (KJCC) at New York University in Manhattan.
The Global Lens film series is sponsored by the Global Film Initiative and is co-presented with the Global Film Initiative, NYU Department of Spanish & Portuguese, and NYU Center for Latin American and Caribbean Studies (CLACS)
The films being screened are:
Monday, April 25th, 7pm
La Mirada Invisible / The Invisible Eye
dir. Diego Lerman (Argentina)
Set during Argentina's military regime of the 1980s, a lonely and deeply repressed assistant teacher at an elite Buenos Aires private school becomes obsessed with one of her students, despite "the school's rigid code of conduct and proud identification with the nation state."
Tuesday, April 26th, 7pm
La Vida Útil / A Useful Life
dir. Federico Veiroj (Uruguay)
Art derives from life as real-life Uruguayan critic Jorge Jellinek portrays an old cinema's most devoted employee. After 25 years, Cinemateca Uruguaya is forced to close due to lack of support. Jorge has devoted his life to caring for his beloved arthouse cinema, and now finds he needs to get a new life.
Wednesday, April 27th, 7pm
Os Inquilinos / The Tenants
dir. Sérgio Bianchi (Brazil)
A manual laborer/night student and his family live a relatively contented life in working-class São Paulo, until some young criminals move in next door. The real meaning of "there goes the neighborhood" as a community deals with both real and imagined dangers in an increasingly chaotic atmosphere.
For more information, visit www.globalfilm.org.
Global Lens 2011 at NYU
April 25 - 27, 2011
King Juan Carlos I of Spain Center
of New York University
53 Washington Square South
New York City
212-998-3650
www.nyu.edu/kjc