International Programs is sponsoring The University of Tampa International Film Festival from Monday through Wednesday in the Reeves Theater on the second floor of Vaughn Center.
The films will start at 2:30 p.m. and will provide food and refreshments that correspond with the country featured in the film.
The films that will be shown are The Class, The Counterfeiters and Persepolis.
“Each film will be introduced by a professor or expert in the field,” said Brook Pawlak, coordinator of International Programs.
The Class takes places over a whole school year in a multicultural high school in Paris.
It’s about a teacher’s interactions with his students and how the students challenge the teacher in return.
The Counterfeiters is based on the memoir of Adolf Burger and takes place in Germany during World War II.
Persepolis is an animated movie about a girl growing up in Iran in the 1970s during the Iranian Revolution.
She struggles to find herself in Iran and in Vienna when her parents send her there to attend school.
Persepolis and The Counterfeiters were both nominated for Academy Awards.
The Class won an Academy award for Best Foreign Film.
International Programs chose the films, but ran them by UT professor Tom Garret before finalizing their picks.
Pawlak said that in the past they have done human rights movies, but they chose to go with nominated films this year.
Pawlak said this is the third International Film Festival she’s been to at UT and she thinks it’s the fourth one total.
International Programs hosts othe events throughout the year as well.
Whatever your taste in movies, these three should satisfy most of them, whether you’re looking for a high school flick, a war movie or a coming-of-age tale.
Enjoy the free food and films and immerse yourself in a foriegn culture for an afternoon.
Mandy Erfourth can be reached at mcarr@ut.edu.