Pearson World Cinema Series
2026-2027 Theme: A Great Escape: Humor and Satire on the Global Stage
2026-2027 Theme: A Great Escape: Humor and Satire on the Global Stage
World Cinema Series
The Institute for Global Understanding (IGU) and the Center for the Arts at Monmouth University invite you to the first of the 2026-2027 Pearson’s World Cinema Series movie and discussion events. We will screen the darkly comedic satire El Conde (2023) directed by Pablo Larraín, followed by a post-screening Q&A session hosted by Chris DeRosa with Dr. Jeffery Jackson as discussant. Light refreshments will be provided. We hope to see you there!
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World Cinema Series
The Institute for Global Understanding (IGU) and the Center for the Arts at Monmouth University invite you to our second Pearson’s World Cinema Series movie and discussion event of the Fall Semester. The featured film will be FUSE, directed by Pjer Zalic. There will be a post screening Q&A hosted by Frank Cipriani with discussant Dr. Marina Vujnovic. Light refreshments will be served. We hope to see you there!
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A film by Nadine Labaki about faith, hope and love. In a remote Lebanese Village women band together and cleverly scheme to prevent their men from killing each other. This comedy drama, with a mix of musical numbers, portrays Muslim and Christian women of a remote mountain community outside Beirut as the leaders keeping their warring Christian and Muslim husbands from engaging in a civil war as tensions in Lebanon mount.
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Xala is a 1975 Senegalese satirical comedy film written and directed by Ousmane Sembene, an adaptation of Sembène’s 1973 novel of the same name. A corrupt politician is cursed with impotence on the night of his third wedding after embezzling 100 tons of rice.
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World Cinema Series
For 10 idyllic years, young Mija has been caretaker and constant companion to Okja – a massive animal and an even bigger friend – at her home in the mountains of South Korea. But that changes when family-owned, multinational conglomerate Mirando Corporation takes Okja for themselves and transports her to New York, where an image-obsessed & self-promoting CEO has big plans for Mija’s dearest friend. With no particular plan but single-minded in intent, Mija sets out on a rescue mission.
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World Cinema Series
The Institute for Global Understanding (IGU) and the Center for the Arts at Monmouth University invite you to our second Pearson’s World Cinema Series movie and discussion event of the spring semester on Thursday, March 26th, at 6:05 PM in the Pozycki Auditorium. We will screen the movie Green Border (2023) directed by Agneiszka Holland, followed by a post-screening Q&A session hosted by Dr. Frank Fury with Prof. William Gorman as discussant. We hope to see you there!
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World Cinema Series
The Institute for Global Understanding (IGU) and the Center for the Arts at Monmouth University invite you to the first Pearson’s World Cinema Series (PWCS) movie and discussion event of the spring semester on Thursday, February 26th, at 6:05 PM in Pollak Theatre. We will screen the movie Chile, ’76 (2022) directed by Manuela Martelli. The movie will be hosted by Dr. Debora Machado Nunes with Prof. Frank Cipriani. Screening will be followed by a discussion and refreshments.
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World Cinema Series
The Institute for Global Understanding (IGU) and the Center for the Arts at Monmouth University invite you to the third Pearson’s World Cinema Series (PWCS) movie and discussion event of the fall semester on Thursday, November 13th, at 6:05 PM in Pozycki Hall Auditorium. The event is co-sponsored by the Global Understanding Convention 2025.
We will screen the movie Between Two Worlds (2021) directed by Emmanuel Carrere. The movie will be hosted by Dr. Manuel Chavez with Dr. Marina Vujnovic. Screening will be followed by a discussion and refreshments.
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World Cinema Series
The Institute for Global Understanding (IGU) and the Center for the Arts at Monmouth University invite you to the second Pearson’s World Cinema Series (PWCS) movie and discussion event of the fall semester on Thursday, October 23rd, at 6:05 PM in the Young Auditorium, Bey Hall. We will screen the movie Leviathan (2014) directed by Andrei Zviagintsev. The movie will be hosted by Dr. Jason Adolf with Prof. Tom Pearson. Screening will be followed by a discussion and refreshments.
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World Cinema Series
This is the Institute for Global Understanding (IGU) and the Center for the Arts at Monmouth University’s first Pearson’s World Cinema Series (PWCS) movie and discussion event of the fall semester on Thursday, September 25th, at 6:05PM in the Great Hall Auditorium. We will screen the movie Evil Does Not Exist (2023), directed by Ryûsuke Hamaguchi, followed by a post-screening Q&A session hosted by Dean Dave Golland and with Prof. Chris DeRosa as discussant. A post-screening discussions and refreshments will follow.
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World Cinema Series
Rama, a literature professor and novelist, travels from Paris to Saint-Omer to observe the trial of Laurence Coly and write about the case. Coly is a student and Senegalese immigrant accused of leaving her 15-month-old daughter on a beach to be swept away by the tide in Berck. Rama, who is four-months pregnant and, like Coly, is in a mixed-race relationship and has a complex relationship with her own Senegalese immigrant mother, feels a personal connection to Coly. She plans to write a modern day retelling of the Greek Medea myth about the case. As she learns more about Coly’s life and the isolation Coly experienced from her family and society while living in France, Rama becomes increasingly anxious about her own life and pregnancy.
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