THE HOST on 35mm (Part of Bong Joon Ho Retrospective)
2006 | Directed by Bong Joon Ho | South Korea | 120 minutes | Korean with English subtitles
Free admission. No registration required.
Post-screening reception in L90 lobby outside HQ L02
Ages 18
Advance Screening: SORRY, BABY (2025) (Following Feminist Film Criticism Panel)
2025 | Directed by Eva Victor | United States | 104 minutes | English
Free admission. No registration required.
Eva Victor’s debut as a writer, director, and lead actor, SORRY, BABY is an intimate drama exploring trauma and healing. The film centers on Agnes, a college professor haunted by the memory of a sexual assault. Told through a non-linear narrative, the film juxtaposes Agnes’s present-day experiences with her past. Winner of Screenwriting Award at the 2025 Sundance Film Festival and named the best reviewed film at Sundance 2025 in Indiewire’s critics survey.
FEMINIST FILM NOW: A Conversation with Film Critics B. Ruby Rich, Lisa Kennedy, and Patricia White (followed by advance screening of SORRY, BABY)
Please join us for a panel conversation with three renowned film critics and curators, all Yale alumnae, discussing the past, present, and future of cinema, writing, and gender and sexual politics in historical moments of crisis.
Panelists: B. Ruby Rich (former Editor-in-Chief at Film Quarterly), YC ‘71; Patricia White (Swarthmore College, Camera Obscura), YC ‘86; Lisa Kennedy (freelance critic, Variety and The New York Times), YC ‘84
Moderator: Oksana Chefranova (Yale Film and Media Studies)
Advance Screening: ON BECOMING A GUINEA FOWL
Join us for an advance screening of the new A24 film ON BECOMING A GUINEA FOWL
Winner of Cannes Award for Un Certain Regard – Best Director
Date and time: Wednesday, February 26 at 8:30pm
Location: Humanities Quadrangle (HQ) L02
(320 York St, New Haven, CT 06511)
Free and open to the public!
(No registration required.)
Building Trusted Data: An Idea For A Community Driven Approach
There has been a revolution in the production of data, and many possible answers to complex questions can be produced from these data with new AI technologies. Yet a black-box conversion of data to evidence may not be trusted by the public: incorrect results can be generated that lead to confusion and even harm.
Yale Library MLK25 Citywide Read: Online Bible Study
Yale Library DEIA and the MLK25 Citywide Read Planning Committee are partnering with churches across the New Haven and Greater Connecticut area to engage in a civic discourse on the written works of Rev. Dr. William J. Barber II. We are hosting a collaborative virtual Bible study session led by Yale staff members on Thursday, January 30, from 5:30pm to 7:00pm. This session will focus on Dr. Barber’s perspective on the history of civil rights in the United States and the role religion has played in shaping that history.
Yale Library MLK25 Citywide Read: Online Bible Study
Yale Library DEIA and the MLK25 Citywide Read Planning Committee are partnering with churches across the New Haven and Greater Connecticut area to engage in a civic discourse on the written works of Rev. Dr. William J. Barber II. We are hosting a collaborative virtual Bible study session led by Yale staff members on Thursday, January 30, from 5:30pm to 7:00pm. This session will focus on Dr. Barber’s perspective on the history of civil rights in the United States and the role religion has played in shaping that history.
The Bridge: A New Musical
Please join us for a presentation of the new musical, The Bridge, in Morse Recital Hall at Yale University, on November 21 at 7:30 PM.
Maadathy, an Unfairy Tale and Conversation with the Filmmaker
This is the tale of an adolescent girl who grew up in an “unseeable” Dalit caste group in southern India whose forced occupation is to wash clothes of other Dalits, the dead, and menstruating women. She transcends her lot and becomes immortalised as their local deity, Maadathy.
seven methods of killing kylie jenner by Jasmine Lee-Jones
When Cleo uses her anonymous Twitter account @INCOGNEGRO to ignite an online protest against cultural appropriation, threads of overwhelming digital backlash quickly ensue. As the lines between virtual identities and real lives begin to blur, the mounting pressure threatens to unravel Cleo and Kara’s friendship. seven methods of killing kylie jenner, by Jasmine Lee-Jones, blends theatre with the online language of Twitter and the 21st Century—memes, gifs, and emojis—to explore the complexities of Black identity, white exploitation, and the volatile nature of social media activism.
