NOTICE: Screen/Society's public screenings may be on hiatus for the time being (stay up to date with Duke University's Coronavirus Response here) but we have been busy exploring ways to bring Screen/Society programming into your home streaming environment, in our new incarnation as "Stream/Society".

We're excited to announce that we've partnered with our friends at Grasshopper Film to bring you a special time-limited opportunity to stream Pedro Costa's new film Vitalina Varela, starting Wednesday afternoon (April 1st) and ending at 11:59pm on Friday night (April 3rd). 

• For instructions on how to gain access to the streaming site for this film during the April 1-3 time window, please write to hank.okazaki@duke.edu
• Access to future "Stream/Society" streaming opportunities is automatically granted to audience members who sign up for the Screen/Society mailing list

Vitalina Varela
(Pedro Costa, 2019, 124 min, Portugal, Cape Verdean Creole & Portuguese w/ subtitles, Color, DCP)

The highly anticipated new film from Pedro Costa, director of Horse Money, Colossal Youth, In Vanda’s Room and Casa de Lava. Vitalina Varela, 55-year-old Cape Verdean, arrives in Lisbon after a 25 year wait for her plane ticket - and three days after her husband’s funeral. With exacting, painterly cinematography, Vitalina Varela is an exquisitely crafted study of mourning and memory.

"The best movie of the year." - Jonathan Rosenbaum, Sight and Sound

“A spellbinding nightmare. Dazzling. Conjures chiaroscuro wonder after chiaroscuro wonder." -- Neil Young, The Hollywood Reporter

“A ravishing, masterful vision. Transcendent. Gorgeous. The camera lingers on stunning compositions with such delicate palettes they may as well be Renaissance paintings brought to life." -- Eric Kohn, Indiewire

Sponsored by the Program in the Arts of the Moving Image (AMI).

Screen/Society screenings are free and open to the public.