Rental Family
Starts Friday, November 21
Set in modern-day Tokyo, RENTAL FAMILY follows an American actor (Brendan Fraser) who struggles to find purpose until he lands an unusual gig: working for a Japanese "rental family" agency, playing stand-in roles for strangers. As he immerses himself in his clients’ worlds, he begins to form genuine bonds that blur the lines between performance and reality. Confronting the moral complexities of his work, he rediscovers purpose, belonging, and the quiet beauty of human connection.


My Undesirable Friends: Part I – Last Air in Moscow (Chapters 1-3)
Sunday, November 23, 4:55pm Cinematheque 
Chapters 1-3. American filmmaker Julia Loktev, born in the Soviet Union, returned to Moscow in 2021 to make a documentary on the persistence of independent media journalism in Putin’s Russia—just months, as it turned out, before the country’s invasion of Ukraine. Structured in five chapters, Loktev’s film is an extraordinary verité document of a moment of immense change and anxiety.  See chapters 4-5 on Nov. 30 for a separate admission.


Swahili Workshop
Monday, November 24, 8:00p.m. - 9:00p.m.  Guilford 301
Join us to learn a few words and phrases in Swahili, along with delicious sambusas and baklava from Zoma (a local Ethiopian restaurant)! Extra credit for MATH 121/122 is available