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FILM SCREENING: R.M.N. (2022)
January 28 @ 4:30 pm - 7:00 pm
Join us for the 2024 EU Film Festival! From January 26-29, in FedEx GEC 1005, we’ll be screening films and hosting discussions with UNC faculty that speak to contemporary challenges facing Europe, the EU, and the transatlantic relationship. These events are CLE Credit Eligible! Parking is available in the GEC deck during the screenings.
Romania’s region of Transylvania, historically an ethnically diverse community, is gripped by xenophobia and nationalism when migrants from the east arrive for work.
After a racist provocation by his employer in a German slaughterhouse, Matthias), a Romanian migrant worker of Roma descent, hitchhikes home to the foothills of Transylvania. The region, which once resisted Ottoman invasion, has been populated at different epochs by Hungarians, Romanians, and Germans and remains a cultural, religious, and linguistic hub. He is coldly welcomed by his young son Rudi (Mark, his estranged wife Ana, his longtime Hungarian lover Csilla, and his father figure Papa Otto), whose ailments require him to undergo an MRI (the translation of which lends its name to the film’s title).
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FACULTY DISCUSSANT
Letitia Guran is a Comparatist interested in global, transatlantic studies with a focus on Romanian/Eastern European literatures, African American identity, Cold War and post-communist studies.
The EU Film Festival is cosponsored by the Center for Slavic, Eurasian, and East European Studies, the Department of Germanic and Slavic Languages and Literatures, the Department of Romance Studies, and the UNC Film Studies program.