Film Screening

La Granada: Short Films Inspired by Food
On Monday, February 3 from 5:00-6:30 pm, join WSU student filmmaker Hollen Foster-Grahler at the Jordan Schnitzer Museum of Art WSU for a screening of her short film “La Granada”. Shot in Aberystwyth, Wales, the film is a visual journey exploring feminine rage, empowerment, and community through surrealist imagery and movement. The title and central emblem of the film, la granada, is the Spanish word for both “pomegranate” and “grenade”—simultaneously a symbol of femininity and destruction. Through this dual meaning, the film examines the precarious nature of womanhood: What happens when that potential energy is finally released?

The School of Languages, Cultures and Race presents this year’s International Film Series “Would you give me the recipe?”: Cinematic Representations of Food, Cooking, Kitchens, and Restaurants. Today, Dr Insook Webber will present Babette’s Feast (Denmark, 1987), directed by Gabriel Axel. During the late 19th century, a strict religious community in a Danish village takes in a French refugee from the Franco-Prussian War as a servant to the late pastor’s daughters.

The School of Languages, Cultures and Race presents this year’s International Film Series “Would you give me the recipe?”: Cinematic Representations of Food, Cooking, Kitchens, and Restaurants. Today, Dr Begoña de Quintana Lasa will present The Lunchbox (India, 2013), directed by Ritesh Batra. A mistaken delivery in Mumbai’s famously efficient lunchbox delivery system connects a young housewife to an older man in the dusk of his life as they build a fantasy world together through notes in the lunchbox.

The School of Languages, Cultures and Race presents this year’s International Film Series “Would you give me the recipe?”: Cinematic Representations of Food, Cooking, Kitchens, and Restaurants. Today, Professor Sabine Davis will present Haute Cuisine (France, 2012), directed by Christian Vincent. An obscure cook from a Périgord truffle farm makes waves in the Élysée Palace when she becomes the personal chef of France’s president

The School of Languages, Cultures and Race presents this year’s International Film Series “Would you give me the recipe?”: Cinematic Representations of Food, Cooking, Kitchens, and Restaurants. Today, Dr Etna Ávalos will present Like Water for Chocolate (Mexico, 1992), directed by Alfonso Arau, written by Laura Esquivel. When tradition prevents her from marrying the man she loves, a young woman discovers she has a unique talent for cooking.