Film Screening:

Lion's Den
(Pablo Trapero, 2008, 113 min, Argentina, in Spanish and French with English subtitles, color, DVD)

-- Introduced by Filmmaker & Visiting Assistant Professor Idrissou Mora Kpai! (Q&A to follow)

Writer/director Pablo Trapero crafts this tender tale of an incarcerated woman who gives birth to a baby boy and struggles to raise her son behind bars as she comes to the bleak realization that he is the only one who matters to her anymore. It all started when a pregnant Julia woke up in her apartment flanked by the bloodied bodies of her former lovers Nahuel and Romiro. Subsequently sent to a prison for mothers and pregnant convicts, Julia railed against the system by withdrawing into her own world. Upon giving birth, Julia realizes just how difficult it could be to raise a son in prison, but each day her feelings for the boy swell stronger within her. Later, when Julia pays a visit to Romiro in the men's prison, it becomes obvious that the couple's feelings for one another are just as muddled as the events of that fateful night back in Julia's apartment.

--Won Special Jury Prize at Havana Film Festival, 2008!

--Nominated for Palme d'Or at Canne, 2008! 

Cost: Free and Open to the Public!

Sponsors: The Program in Women's Studies, the Program in the Arts of the Moving Image (AMI), the Center for Documentary Studies (CDS), and the International Comparative Studies Program (ICS).