This screening includes Z
- Date and time:
- Sat, Oct 18, 7 pm; Free but ticketed (+$1.00 fee for online tickets)
- Genres:
The public murder of a prominent politician and doctor amid a violent demonstration is covered up by military and government officials. A tenacious magistrate is determined not to let them get away with it.
Fall 2025 | Politics and Propaganda: The Cinema of Costa-Gavras
“Every movie is political.” — Costa-Gavras (1973)
Director, screenwriter, and producer Konstantinos "Kostas" Gavras, who works professionally as Costa-Gavras, is a Greek filmmaker who has been making cinema at the intersection of politics and propaganda since the 1960s. A savvy director with an intimate understanding of the power of commercial film, Costa-Gavras developed a reputation for combining controversial—and often radical—political issues and positions with mainstream filmmaking. The approach has helped his films reach far past the usual “political cinema” audience, bringing withering yet nuanced critiques of extreme political parties and movements to a wide and varied audience. This series showcases that tendency in its most successful forms, screening the Oscar-winning Z (1969), the Golden Globe- and BAFTA-nominated The Confession/L’aveu (1970), and the Palme d’Or-winning Missing (1982).
