TAMIU Annette Olsen-Fazi International Film Festival Continues May 15-16

Through the month of May, the Texas A&M International University (TAMIU) Annette Olsen-Fazi International Film Festival can take you around the world.

The Film Festival will primarily be screened at the TAMIU Student Center Theater, room SC 236 twice weekly throughout May.

Films are free of charge and open to the public.

The Festival honors the memory of the late Dr Annette Olsen-Fazi, a TAMIU faculty member who initiated the University’s first French Film Festival in 2007 and passed away this January.

The Film Festival was made possible in part by a grant from Humanities Texas, a state partner of the National Endowment for the Humanities.

The schedule and films showing are as follows:

Der Untergang (Downfall, Germany), Friday, May 15 at 7 p.m. in Bob Bullock Hall, room 118.

Le scaphandre et le papillon (Belgium), Saturday, May 16 at 7 p.m.

Audiencia (Laredo), Friday, May 22 at 7 p.m.

Señorita extraviada (México), Friday, May 22 at 7:15

Quince (Encinal), Saturday, May 23 at 7 p.m.

Finding Dawn (Canada) Saturday, May 23 at 7:15 p.m.

No importa que (Encinal), Friday, May 29 at 7 p.m.

De nadie (México) Friday, May 29 at 7:15 p.m.

Amélie (Le Fabuleux Destin d’ Amélie Poulain, France), May 30 at 7 p.m.

Additional showings will be held at Encinal’s Veterans’ Hall.

The schedule and films showing are as follows.

Saturday, May 9 - Quince and Bus Stories at 1 p.m. at Veterans’ Hall.

Sunday, May 10 – De nadie at 1:30 p.m. at Veterans’ Hall.

Saturday, May 16 – No importa que and Ranch Stories at 1 p.m. and Soñar no cuesta nada at 1:30 p.m. at Veterans’ Hall.

For more information, call 326.3047 or e-mail amoran@tamiu.edu. For full film descriptions, visit the Festival Web site at: tamiu.edu/coas/filmfest

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