Girlfriend Boyfriend (2012) Directed by Ya-che Yang These events are sponsored by the East Asian Studies Center, Department of Communication and Culture, TECO, the Taipei Economic and Cultural Office in Thursday - March 7 - 6:30 p.m. Chicago, and IU Cinema. When three students leave their hometown Special thanks to Professor to pursue their dreams in the big city, their Stephanie DeBoer. relationships starts to face the pressures of real life, while the Taiwanese sociopolitical reformation movement unfolds in the background. As the three share love, friendship and sex, the film reminds us of the complexities of modern relationships. Mandarin language with English subtitles. Scholar Shu-Yi Lin is scheduled to be present. (2K DCP. 106 min. Not Rated.) Shu-Yi Lin researches in the Film Studies Department at King’s College in London. Her research interests include Queer Kinship in Film, Chinese-language Women’s Cinema, Feminist Theory, Marxism and Visual Culture Theories. Before King’s College, she was the festival director and programmer for the Taiwan Women Make Waves Film Festival. Jorgensen Lecture with Shu-Yi Lin Thursday March 7 3:00 p.m. Branigin Lecture with A. B. Yehoshua Tuesday March 19 3:00 p.m. A.B. Yehoshua is professor at Haifa University and one of Israel’s premiere literary figures. He is the author of ten novels, numerous short stories, essays, and plays and has won several prestigious awards, among them the National Jewish Book Award for Fiction, the Israel Prize, and the Los Angeles Times Book Prize for Fiction. His visit is co-sponsored by Robert A. and Sandra S. Borns Jewish Studies Program, Center for the Study of the Middle East, and IU Cinema. The Human Resources Manager (2010) Directed by A.B. Yehoshua Tuesday - March 19 - 7:00 p.m. The Human Resources Manager of Jerusalem’s largest bakery is in trouble. He is separated from his wife, distanced from his daughter, and stuck in a job he hates. When one of his employees, a foreign worker, is killed in a suicide bombing, the bakery is accused of indifference, and the HR Manager is sent to the victim’s hometown in Romania to make amends. Far from home, on a mission to honor a woman he didn’t even know but has somehow grown to admire, the HR Manager fights to regain his company’s reputation - and possibly his own humanity. Writer A. B. Yehoshua is scheduled to be present. (35mm. 103 min. Not Rated.) cinema.indiana.edu Other Films with Guests 53