{"id":26819,"date":"2019-02-02T14:00:42","date_gmt":"2019-02-02T20:00:42","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.discoverclarksville.com\/articles\/?p=26819"},"modified":"2019-02-02T08:18:27","modified_gmt":"2019-02-02T14:18:27","slug":"apsu-world-film-festival-explores-the-other-in-us","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.discoverclarksville.com\/articles\/2019\/02\/02\/apsu-world-film-festival-explores-the-other-in-us\/","title":{"rendered":"APSU \u2018World Film Festival\u2019 explores \u2018the other in us\u2019"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2>Austin Peay State University (APSU)<\/h2>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-324279\" title=\"Austin Peay State University - APSU\" src=\"http:\/\/www.clarksvilleonline.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/10\/Austin-Peay-State-University-APSU.jpg\" alt=\"Austin Peay State University - APSU\" width=\"250\" height=\"64\"\/><strong>Clarksville, TN<\/strong> &#8211; Austin Peay State University\u2019s (APSU) fifth \u201cWorld Film Festival,\u201d which makes available to the community and APSU students a series of films from around the world and from diverse languages, starts Monday, February 4th, 2019.<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_443425\" style=\"width: 490px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/www.clarksvilleonline.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/02\/Austin-Peay-State-University-\u2018World-Film-Festival\u2019-explores-\u2018the-other-in-us\u2019.jpg\"  class=\"thickbox no_icon\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-443425\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-443425\" title=\"An image captured from &quot;Marlina the Murderer in Four Acts.&quot;\" src=\"http:\/\/www.clarksvilleonline.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/02\/Austin-Peay-State-University-\u2018World-Film-Festival\u2019-explores-\u2018the-other-in-us\u2019-480x320.jpg\" alt=\"An image captured from &quot;Marlina the Murderer in Four Acts.&quot; \" width=\"480\" height=\"320\"\/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-443425\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">An image captured from &#8220;Marlina the Murderer in Four Acts.&#8221;<\/p><\/div>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt is a rare opportunity to watch and discuss recent movies produced internationally and the contents of which students would not otherwise be typically exposed to,\u201d Dr. Christopher Konkobo, associate professor of French and francophone studies, said.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cSuch exposure to foreign cultures prepares our students to start a dialogue with their peers and faculty members about the expectations and challenges of global citizenry,\u201d stated Konkobo.<\/p>\n<p>The festival\u2019s theme this year is \u201cThe Other in Us.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The festival starts at 5:00pm February 4th with a showing of \u201cMarlina the Murderer in Four Acts,\u201d an Indonesian film about a woman\u2019s redemption and empowerment after she\u2019s the victim of theft and rape. All the movies in the festival will be in the Morgan University Center\u2019s Room 307.<\/p>\n<h3>Other films are:<\/h3>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>\u201cBound: Africans vs. African Americans,\u201d<\/strong> United States, 5:00pm February 11th<\/li>\n<li><strong>\u201cThe Insult,\u201d<\/strong> Lebanon, 5:00pm February 18th<\/li>\n<li><strong>\u201cLa Soledad,\u201d<\/strong> Venezuela, 5:00pm, February 25th<\/li>\n<li><strong>\u201cBlack Girl,\u201d<\/strong> Senegal, 5:00pm March 11th<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>All films have English subtitles and are free.<\/p>\n<p>The festival is made possible thanks to a Student Academic Success Initiative grant, support from the Department of Languages &amp; Literature and the APSU international studies minor.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>For more information, contact Konkobo at <a href=\"mailto:konkoboc@apsu.edu\">konkoboc@apsu.edu<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Austin Peay State University (APSU) Clarksville, TN &#8211; Austin Peay State University\u2019s (APSU) fifth \u201cWorld Film Festival,\u201d which makes available to the community and APSU students a series of films from around the world and from diverse languages, starts Monday, February 4th, 2019.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[4],"tags":[23,5594,262,33089,512,825,33088],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p4xGYI-6Yz","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.discoverclarksville.com\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26819"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.discoverclarksville.com\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.discoverclarksville.com\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.discoverclarksville.com\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/6"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.discoverclarksville.com\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=26819"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.discoverclarksville.com\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26819\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":26820,"href":"https:\/\/www.discoverclarksville.com\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26819\/revisions\/26820"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.discoverclarksville.com\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=26819"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.discoverclarksville.com\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=26819"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.discoverclarksville.com\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=26819"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}