Massachusetts Multicultural Film Festival

PEACE/WAR

31st Massachusetts Multicultural Film Festival

PEACE/WAR

Feb. 21 - May 1, 2024

UMass, Isenberg School of Management 137

All events are free and open to the public.

The 2024 festival presents films that will discuss the topic PEACE/WAR. It was curated Daniel Pope (Festival Director), Celia Sainz (Assistant Curator) and guest curator Mariana Ivanova (Academic Director, DEFA Film Library).

Please find the complete festival program here.

Presenting the best of new fiction, documentary and experimental filmmaking by international filmmakers, the MMFF, one of the nation’s longest-standing university-based film festivals, seeks to cultivate an appreciation of film and the moving image, to inspire audiences to a deeper understanding of the world’s cultures through film, and to celebrate past, present and future achievements of international filmmaking within a university setting. The culturally diverse films are screened for the benefit of students, faculty, and the public, with critical introductions by scholars and filmmakers.

March 13 | 7:30 pm

Presented by the DEFA Film Library

CHILEAN FILMS IN EXILE

SHORTS BY JUAN FORCH

(North American premiere)

The program includes seven short films that the Chilean filmmaker Juan Forch created while in East German exile after the military coup d’état in Chile in 1973.

The films will be introduced by Mariana Ivanova (Academic Director, DEFA Film Library), who will also conduct the hybrid post screening discussion and Q&A with Isabel Mardones (Goethe-Institut Chile).