IFS Fall 2021 Film Schedule

October 7th at 7:00 pm in Lindou Auditorium

In this anime feature, 13-year-old Kiki moves to a seaside town with her talking cat, Jiji, to spend a year alone, in accordance with her village's tradition for witches in training. After learning to control her broomstick, Kiki sets up a flying courier service and soon becomes a fixture in the community. But when the insecure young witch begins questioning herself and loses her magic abilities, she must overcome her self-doubt to get her powers back.

October 18th at 7:00 pm in Lindou Auditorium
In cooperation with GSRC

In this riveting dramatic tale, gay teens Naz and Maalik are friends, classmates, business partners and lovers. As the two closeted Muslim teens go about their regular daily routine on a Friday afternoon in Brooklyn they arouse the suspicions of an undercover FBI agent who begins to track them. This complex tale of race, religion and sexuality features a pair of tremendous performances from Kerwin Johnson Jr. as Naz and Curtiss Cook Jr. as Maalik. Intimate and meditative, Naz & Maalik examines the mysterious forces that animate teenage minds.

Novemer 4th at 7:00 pm in Lindou Auditorium
Partnering with Michael Mayer, Film Studies Faculty

November 11th at 7:00 pm in Lindou Auditorium
With Go West Film Fest

After the murder of his father by a local biker gang, Cole returns home to inherit his father’s ranch despite his step-mother and brothers’ determination to keep it for themselves.

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