Caroline Wiess Law Building Films Week of Sunday, August 25, 2024-Saturday, August 31, 2024


Raqib Shaw, Ode to the Country Without a Post Office, 2019–20, acrylic liner and enamel on birchwood
Raqib Shaw: Ballads of East and West Through September 2, 2024

Raqib Shaw blends Eastern and Western influences to create mesmerizing works of art that merge fable, history, and autobiography.

25 Aug Sun / 2024

  • Green Border Film Poster
    Green Border (Zielona granica)
    2 p.m.—4:30 p.m.

    Along the treacherous forests (“green border”) between Belarus and Poland, refugees from the Middle East and Africa are lured by government propaganda promising easy passage to the European Union. Instead, they become trapped in an escalating geopolitical standoff.

30 Aug Fri / 2024

  • Nostalghia Film Poster
    Nostalghia
    7 p.m.—9 p.m.

    Newly restored in 4K from the original camera negative, this cult favorite is a mystical and mysterious collision of East and West, shot with the tactile beauty that only Tarkovsky can provide. Film critic J. Hoberman observed that “Nostalghia is not so much a movie as a place to inhabit for two hours.” 

31 Aug Sat / 2024

  • Nostalghia Film Poster
    Nostalghia
    7 p.m.—9 p.m.

    Newly restored in 4K from the original camera negative, this cult favorite is a mystical and mysterious collision of East and West, shot with the tactile beauty that only Tarkovsky can provide. Film critic J. Hoberman observed that “Nostalghia is not so much a movie as a place to inhabit for two hours.”