Cinema Studies
The 44th Bi-Annual New Jersey Film Festival will be taking place on select Fridays, Saturdays, and Sundays between January 23-February 22, 2026. The Festival will be a hybrid one as we will be presenting it online as well as doing in-person screenings at Rutgers University.
Read More
On Tuesday, November 18, Rutgers University will host a screening of The Puppet’s Tale at the Alexander Library, followed by a Q&A session with director Suman Mukhopadhyay. The event is moderated by Dr. Rudrani Gangopadhyay and supported by several interdisciplinary programs, including South Asian Studies and Cinema Studies.
Rutgers University will host a screening of The Eyes of Ghana on November 11, a documentary detailing the recovery and repatriation of over 1,300 historic films from Ghana’s independence era. The free event at Rutgers Cinema features a live Q&A with the filmmakers, moderated by Ambassador Abena P.A. Busia and Professor Bright Gyamfi.
The 44th Bi-Annual New Jersey Film Festival will be taking place between September 5-October 10, 2025. The Festival will be a hybrid as we will be presenting it online as well as doing select in-person screenings at Rutgers University.
The 43rd New Jersey Film Festival offers hybrid in-person and virtual screenings from January 24 to March 2, 2025. The season features a Renee Maskin concert and a benefit screening of the film Bucha.
The Cinema Studies Program and the Department of African, Middle Eastern, and South Asian Languages and Literatures will host a talk by Professor Sangita Gopal of the University of Oregon. Professor Gopal, an expert in cinema studies and comparative literature, will present her research as part of this academic series.
The 43rd Bi-Annual New Jersey Film Festival features hybrid in-person and virtual screenings at Rutgers University on Fridays and Saturdays from September 6 through October 18, 2024. The event concludes with a live audio-visual concert by electronic artist Jim Haynes at Voorhees Hall.
Please join us for The AMESALL FILM Series by Department of African, Middle Eastern and South Asian Languages and Literatures
Please join us for a screening of MACHTAT by documentary filmmaker SONIA BEN SLAMA
The Fall 2023 film series features screenings of three classic Eastern European films followed by faculty-led discussions at the Academic Building West. Hosted by the Russian & East European program, these Friday morning events include English subtitles and complimentary refreshments.
The 42nd Bi-Annual New Jersey Film Festival will be taking place on the Fridays and Sundays between September 8-October 8, 2023. The Festival will be a hybrid one as we will be presenting it online as well as doing in-person screenings at Rutgers University.
In Nazarband, acclaimed filmmaker and theatre director, Suman Mukhopadhyay takes us on a visceral journey through Kolkata with an unlikely pair - Vasanti and Chandu - two jailbirds recently released from prison. Adapted from Bengali novelist Ashapurna Devi’s Chhuti Nakoch, the film stars Indira Tiwari and Tanmay Dhanania, and is a heartfelt exploration into the depths of companionship and the meaning of rejection and acceptance.
The 41st Bi-Annual New Jersey Film Festival features a hybrid lineup of international and local films screened in-person at Rutgers University and online from January 27 to February 19, 2023. Highlights include various short film programs, feature-length documentaries, and the 35th annual United States Super 8 Film & Digital Video Festival.
