SFCC presents the 8th InternationalFilm Festival on Tuesdays from April 23rd to May 21st.
The Garland theater, located at 924 W Garland Ave, will be showing movies from five different countries every Tuesday from the 23rd of April through May 21st at 7:15 p.m. Faculty and students attending a community college in Spokane are free and all others pay $4.00 for entry. The films being shown, complete with subtitles on-screen this year, are produced in Germany, China, Israel, France, Spain, and Mexico.
Bonnie Brunt, Spanish Instructor at Spokane Falls Community College, told us that the featured films this year will be “The Wave”, “The Hedgehog”, “Aftershock”, “Yossi”, and “Even the Rain” which were chosen back in fall quarter of 2012. The language and Alliance club faculty, along with some students, got together in the fall quarter and watched films that were suggested by all parties. The top five were chosen as, “The best films picked to show at this year’s festival,” Brunt said.
Gabriel Valenzuela is a Spanish professor at SFCC and will introduce the entire event as a leader this year. He is most excited for the film “Even the Rain,” which will show May 21st.
“I think it is a poignant portrayal of the harsh conditions that indigenous people of Latin America are faced with even in the 21st century and is reminiscent of its colonial past,” Valenzuela said.
Barbara Williamson will introduce the film “Yossi” on behalf of the Alliance club. “The reason for creating this event was so we could get a place to showcase what we do with the language programs, and bring the community of Spokane together through various languages in other venues,” Williamson said.
Mary Hyatt, a Film teacher at SFCC, described this event as, “So magical to be sitting in a 200 plus audience in the dark together, watching a film and going through the same emotions at the same time – (it is) a great experience.”
“I really want to encourage students and faculty to come watch the films this year,” Brunt said. “It’s a complete turnaround from students thinking it will be boring, and coming out wanting to buy the film.
“Give it a try, it’s way more fun than you think it will be, and it’s really good entertainment.”