The fall season of California State University, Fresno’s CineCulture film series kicks off at 5:30 p.m. Friday, Sept. 2, with a screening of the 2004 Golden Globe-winning “Monsieur Ibrahim.”

The French film (with English subtitles) will be screened at the Leon S. and Pete P. Peters Educational Center in the Student Recreation Center (Woodrow and Shaw avenues).

CineCulture’s series this fall is comprised of 16 films, 12 on-campus and four off campus in conjunction with Fresno Filmworks, whose films are screened at the Tower Theater in the central Fresno Tower District.

Also part of the lineup is a lecture by filmmaker Jacob Bender at 6 p.m. Sept. 15 at the Fresno Art Museum. His topic is “The Real Moor of Venice: the image of Averroes and Malmonides in Their Time and Ours.” The lecture precedes the showing the next day (5:30 p.m. Sept. 16 in the Peters Educational Center) of his film “Out of Cordoba.”

The documentary film explores conflicts between religions around the world, through the lives and writings of two philosophers, Averroes, a Muslim, and Rabbi Moses Maimonides, a Jew. Bender previously presented his lecture at the New York Metropolitan Museum.

The on-campus events are free and open to the public.

CineCulture is a film series for Fresno State students, faculty, staff and the community that also is an academic course in the Department of Mass Communication and Journalism.

All on-campus movies will be shown in the Peters Educational Center at 5:30 p.m., except where noted and will include a post-screening discussion evaluating cultural and social trends:

  • Sept. 9 – “The Names of Love” (5:30 and 8 p.m. Tower Theater).
  • Sept. 16 – “Out of Cordoba”
  • Sept. 23 – “Kolya”
  • Sept. 30 – “Fatal Promises”
  • Oct. 6 – “The Fish Fall in Love”
  • Oct. 18 – “Queen of the Sun” (Alice Peters Auditorium inFresno State’s University Business Center)
  • Oct. 21 – “Women, Art, & Revolution”
  • Oct. 28 – “Harvest of Loneliness:The Bracero Program”
  • Nov. 4 – “Lost Boundaries”
  • Nov. 17 – “Entre Nos” (Alice Peters Auditorium)
  • Dec. 2 – “The Necessities of Life”

Fresno Filmworks programs are scheduled Oct. 14, Nov. 11 and Dec. 10, but films have not been announced.

For more information, contact Dr. Mary Husain at 559.278.5702 or mhusain@csufresno.edu.

(Copy by University Communications news intern Nicole Maul)

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