Wednesday, January 24, 2001

WILMINGTON, NC -- The third annual Cape Fear International Film Series will show six international films this semester on the campus of the University of North Carolina at Wilmington. This series, which is sponsored by WHQR, Café de France, Caffe Phoenix, Tokyo Deli, the Italian Heritage Society and the Cape Fear Foreign Language Collaborative, will be held Thursday evenings in the UNCW Warwick Center Ballroom. Admission is $4; free to UNCW students.

The Cape Fear International Film Series will show the films listed below.

6:30 and 9 p.m. Feb. 1 Warwick Center Ballroom

100% Arabica (Mahmoud Zemmouri, France, 1997)

A buoyant comedy about rai music in the Paris, featuring internationally known rai stars Cheb Mami and Kaled.

7 and 9 p.m. Feb. 15 Warwick Center Ballroom

Guantanamera (Tomás Gutiérrez Alea, Cuba, 1997)

A comic-romantic road movie about a group of friends and relatives who accompany the body of a famous diva across Cuba to her final resting place in Havana.

6:30 and 9 p.m. March 1 Warwick Center Ballroom

Aimee and Jaguar (Max Färberböck, Germany, 1999)

A film that tells the true story of an affair between two women in 1943 Berlin.



6:30 and 9 p.m. March 22 Warwick Center Ballroom

Lamerica (Gianni Amelio, Italy, 1995)

A drama about Albanian immigrants and their dreams of Italy.

6:30 and 9 p.m. April 5 Warwick Center Ballroom

After Life (Kore-eda Hirokazu, Japan, 1999)

A poetic exploration of film, memory and the fragile pleasures of life.

6:30 and 9 p.m. April 19 Warwick Center Ballroom

Goya in Bordeaux (Carlos Saura, Spain, 2000)

An exploration of the Spanish painter’s life and art.

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For more information, contact Alison Murray, assistant professor in the UNCW Department of Foreign Languages and Literatures, at 910/962-7595.