Don't miss the CineCulture lineup this semester. CineCulture Club promotes cultural awareness through film and post-screening discussions.

"Dede" (2017)
When: 5:30 p.m. Friday, Nov. 16
Where: Peters Education Center Auditorium (west of the Save Mart Center in the Student Recreation Center building).

All films screened on campus are free and open to the public. Parking is not enforced after 4 p.m. on Fridays.

Discussant: Maya Kriheli (Forced arranged child marriage survivor and woman’s support group leader)

Dede by Georgian director Mariam Bakacho Khatchvani is based on true events that took place during the Georgian Civil War (1988-1993). The film is set in the mountainous region of Svanetia in northwest Georgia where the Svans, a people far removed from the modern world, still live in a society deeply steeped in tradition. This patriarchal society revolves around arranged marriages, pride and customs that dictate the code of daily life. Dede tells the story of Dina, a young woman promised by her draconian grandfather to David, one of the soldiers returning from the war. A marriage arranged by two families cannot be broken as it would bring dishonor and bloodshed. Dina does not love David and falls for his handsome friend. Will Dina be able to follow her heart? Will David accept Dina’s love for another man? In this hostile and conservative environment, Dina’s dream of true love is a menace to her community’s ancient ways.

Sponsor: Center of Creativity and the Arts

Coming next: - "Silent Sacrifice" (2017) - Nov. 30

Filmed in the Central Valley, Silent Sacrifice by director Jeff Aiello reveals the true story of one of the darkest chapters in America’s past — the relocation and incarceration of Japanese-Americans in 1942. After Japan’s surprise attack on Pearl Harbor in 1941, Japanese-Americans and immigrants who called the United States home were subjected to one of the largest violations of civil liberties in our nation’s history. President Franklin Delano Roosevelt signed Executive Order 9066 on Feb. 19, 1942, and by May nearly 120,000 people of Japanese ancestry, most legal American citizens, were forced to leave their homes, their schools, their businesses and their lives behind and relocate to military-controlled concentration camps. This documentary focuses on our local history of this tragic past and presents witnesses who might be your friends or neighbors.

For a complete schedule, visit the College of Arts and Humanities blog.

CineCulture is a film series provided as a service to Fresno State students, faculty, staff and community. CineCulture is also offered as a three-unit academic course (MCJ 179) in the Media, Communications and Journalism Department. The course fulfills General Education Integration Area Multicultural International (MI). For students entering Fresno State Fall 2018, the course satisfies a university graduation requirement.

Fresno State encourages persons with disabilities to participate in its programs and activities. If you anticipate needing any type of accommodation or have questions about the physical access provided, please contact us in advance to your participation.

For more information, contact Dr. Mary Husain (instructor and club adviser) at mhusain@csufresno.edu.