The Museum of Modern Art announces Global Lens 2011 from January 13-28, 2011 at The Roy and Niuta Titus Theaters
MoMA, in collaboration with the Global Film Initiative (GFI), presents Global Lens 2011, the eighth annual touring film exhibition conceived to encourage filmmaking in countries with developing film communities. The selection of nine programs, each from a different country, includes films developed with seed money from GFI, and represents a concise survey of contemporary filmmaking from areas where local economic realities make such expensive and technology-driven endeavors a challenge.
Accomplished, entertaining, and thought-provoking, the films are also deeply rooted in the social and political realities of the countries where their talented and resourceful makers live and set their stories. Global Lens includes two weeklong runs: Federico Veiroj's La Vida Útil (A Useful Life) (Uruguay, 2010), January 13-18, and Levan Koguashvili's Quchis Dgeebi (Street Days) (Georgia, 2010), January 20-26.
This year's selections are: Federico Veiroj's La Vida Útil (A Useful Life) (2010), Uruguay; Sérgio Bianchi's Os Inquilinos (The Tenants) (2009), Brazil; Sidharth Srinivasan's Pairon Talle (Soul of Sand) (2010), India; Diego Lerman's La Mirada Invisible (The Invisible Eye) (2010), Argentina; Aktan Arym Kubat's Svet-Ake (The Light Thief) (2010), Kyrgyzstan; Mohammad Rasoulof's Kestzar Haye Sepid (The White Meadows) (2009), Iran; Zhang Lu's Dooman River (2009), China; Levan Koguashvili's Quchis Dgeebi (Street Days) (2010), Georgia; and Ahmed Imamovic's Belvedere (2010), Bosnia-Herzegovina.
Organized by Jytte Jensen, Curator, Department of Film, The Museum of Modern Art.
