Tufts University's Department of International Literary and Cultural Studies invites you to a screening and discussion of Exile and Imagination, a one-hour documentary about the life and work of Svetlana Boym, the literary and cultural critic who was the Carl Hugo Reisinger Professor of Slavic and Comparative Literature at Harvard. The screening will be followed by a discussion between the film’s director, Judith Wechsler; Tufts Lecturer Marina Aptekman; and Anna Winestein, Executive Director of the Ballets Russes Arts Initiative. In 1980, age 21,…

The Medford Garden Club's annual Movie and Popcorn Night features the documentary 10 Parks that Changed America. The movie focuses on 10 visionaries who transformed neglected spaces into welcoming oases of serenity and natural wonder in the midst of urban hubbub. Find out about the heroes who championed these parks and the villains who tried to thwart them, and learn about the history of city parks and the development of landscape architecture in America. The parks covered in the documentary include the squares…

The Medford Film Collaborative presents the third installment of a new monthly series of thought-provoking films about art and artists with the showing of "Exit Through the Gift Shop." Banksy is a graffiti artist with a global reputation whose work can be seen on walls from post-hurricane New Orleans to the separation barrier on the Palestinian West Bank. He fiercely guards his anonymity to avoid prosecution. An eccentric French shopkeeper turned documentary maker attempts to locate and befriend Banksy, only…

Sanctuary United Church of Christ presents its monthly Faith and Film program. Bring your own beer, wine or soda and experience the places where pop culture meets faith. Attendees watch a current film, followed by a discussion about themes of morality, faith, and humanity led by local theologians and community leaders. This month's film is an entertaining, animated fantasy that reviews say has "intellectual ballast, but it's cleverly disguised. Beneath the easy slapstick, there's a timely moral too: Don't fear the unknown,…

Community Baptist Church invites you to a screening of the French language film "Amour," winner of the Academy Award for best foreign language film of 2012. "Amour" is a story about love at its greatest testing point. Retired music teachers Georges (Jean-Louis Trintignant) and Anne (Emmanuelle Riva) have spent their lives devoted to their careers and to each other. Their relationship faces its biggest challenge when Anne suffers a debilitating stroke. Though Georges himself suffers from the aches and infirmities of old…

The Center for the Study of Race and Democracy at Tufts University presents a screening of the film "I, A Black Woman, Resist: Bearing Witness to the Life & Legacy of Marielle Franco." Afro-Brazilian activist and politician Marielle Franco — a champion for racial and gender equity in Brazil and a staunch critic of police brutality and state-sanctioned violence — was assassinated on March 14, 2018. Earlier on the night of her assassination, Marielle led an event entitled “Young Black Women…

The Medford Public Schools are hosting two presentations of the documentary "If They Had Known," a 35-minute film that focuses on the risks of current party culture. It is not a film about addiction. It is a candid film spoken by kids, to kids about the risks of recreationally mixing prescription drugs with alcohol. The film is an honest and emotional account of a real event -- the death in 2015 of 19-year-old Clay Soper of Winchester after mixing alcohol…

The Medford Public Schools present the second showing of the documentary "If They Had Known," a 35-minute film that focuses on the risks of current party culture. It is not a film about addiction. It is a candid film spoken by kids, to kids about the risks of recreationally mixing prescription drugs with alcohol. The film is an honest and emotional account of a real event -- the death in 2015 of 19-year-old Clay Soper of Winchester after mixing alcohol…