When a young Egyptian woman travels from her village to Cairo to add her voice to the tens of thousands of Egyptians demanding an end to 60 years of military rule, she is arrested, beaten, and tortured by security forces and later punished and imprisoned by her family for daring to speak out. Unbreakable, she sets out in a search for freedom and social justice in a country in the grips of a power struggle, where there is little tolerance for the likes of her. Buoyed by the other activists she meets along the way, Hend Nafea’s story mirrors the trajectory of the Arab Spring—from the ecstasy of newfound courage to the agony of shattered dreams.In the end, despite crushing setbacks, it is resilience that sustains the hope for reform even in the darkest hours of repression.

“Amid the backdrop of countless stories about the oppression of women in the Middle East and North Africa, however, Nafea insists her story is about the strength of Egyptian women.”— Kia Makarechi, Vanity Fair

This ONE NIGHT event is being shown as part of International Education Week and the Kennedy Lecture Series and is sponsored by the Women’s Center, the Multicultural Center, and the Center for International Studies, International Student Union, the LGBT Center, Political Science Majors’ Association, Pi Sigma Alpha, the American Association of University Women – Student Affiliate Group, Campus Involvement Center, SAC, and BSCPB.

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90 MIN

Only two years into the war, over 3,500 journalists had traveled through the Camp Za’atari to tell stories of the Syrian people who were forced out of their country to live in exile in Jordan. The stories told were somewhat black and white and largely tragic. In response to the mainstream media reporting of the refugee experience, two workshops were organized to give Syrian girls living as refugees in Jordan’s camps and urban areas cameras and the chance to tell their own stories.

The workshops, one in Jordan’s Za’atari Refugee Camp and the other in the city of Irbid in northern Jordan, engaged Syrian girls in artistic and technical training in photo and video to reflect on and tell their own stories in first person. With cameras, microphones and pens in hand, the girls set out to document their everyday lives – how it looks, feels and sounds from the ground, at the heart of their world.

For these girls, storytelling offers the possibility not just to change the trajectories of their own personal stories but to offer this possibility of change to other girls, and to give alternative ways of seeing to people in their communities and to the world beyond.

The workshops were developed and facilitated by documentary filmmaker/educator Laura Doggett with documentary animator/educator Tasneem Toghoj. Laura Doggett will be present during the screening and will participate in a talkback with the audience following the film.

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Three engineers from the city travel to a small Kurdish village to document the villagers’ mourning for a 100-year-old woman who is still alive, but whose health is failing. Haunting and visually stunning, The Wing Will Carry Us is an absorbing abstract meditation on life and death and the divisions between tradition and modernity. The film will be preceded by by a short introduction.

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118 MIN

*Closed captioning, assistive listening, and audio description devices are available for this film.*

SPOTLIGHT tells the riveting true story of the Pulitzer Prize-winning Boston Globe investigation that would rock the city and cause a crisis in one of the world’s oldest and most trusted institutions. When the newspaper’s tenacious “Spotlight” team of reporters delves into allegations of abuse in the Catholic Church, their year-long investigation uncovers a decades-long cover-up at the highest levels of Boston’s religious, legal, and government establishment, touching off a wave of revelations around the world.

The film will be introduced by Marty Baron, executive editor of The Washington Post and former Boston Globe editor depicted in the film. This event is sponsored by the E.W. Scripps School of Journalism. Admission to this event is free!

“It’s not a stretch to suggest that Spotlight is the finest newspaper movie of its era, joining Citizen Kane and All the President’s Men in the pantheon of classics of the genre.” – Ann Hornaday, Washington Post

“Spotlight is a masterpiece.” -Brian Truit, USA Today

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128 MIN

The delightfully whacky Monty Python and the Holy Grail is coming to the Athena this fall for OU Parents Weekend! Join us for a very special quote-along version of the widely beloved film, featuring official Monty Python guidebooks and “coconut clackers.” Whether it’s your first time or your fiftieth time seeing this movie, the Athena invites you to join the quest for the holy grail.

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91 MIN