The Nicholls International Film Club recently partnered with the Student Programming Association and will be hosting a viewing of The Decameron on Aug. 26 in Peltier Auditorium.

Anke Tonn, the Library Co-Director and film club chairperson, is originally from Hamburg, Germany. This is one of the reasons that international film is close to her heart.

The club, a small group of students and faculty, was organized in 2003. Though they routinely show a new film every month, the club had never been well advertised until last year when they teamed up with the SPA.
In the club’s first year, a famous German director came to Nicholls and showed all of his films.

There is usually a short introduction before each screening, sometimes by the director of the film. Films are always shown in their original languages with English subtitles.

Some professors, like Todd Kennedy, have encouraged students to attend the monthly screenings, often with the incentives of extra points. These screenings may also interest students pursuing the new film studies minor.
Tonn also said that Eugene Dial, our vice president for student affairs, thinks it is essential for the university to have a film club.

“Students really should go [to the screenings] because that’s another way of learning, especially since we show the movies in their original languages,” Tonn said.

At the end of the spring semester, members of the SPA, the film club and faculty come together and choose films for the upcoming year, often taking suggestions from other students or professors.

A new film will be shown each month, and September’s film will be The Grand Budapest Hotel. Other films to be shown later this semester include The Great Beauty, Intouchables, Undertow, Pirate Radio, Cigarettes & Nylons, I is For India, Dancing in Jaffa and Philomena.

Everyone is welcome and there is never a charge. Anyone interested in joining the International Film Club should contact Tonn in the library.