Oct. 2, 2002--The University of Delaware’s fall International Film Series begins Oct. 6, with screenings at 7:30 p.m., Sundays, in the Trabant University Center Theatre. Foreign language films are shown with subtitles, and all of the 35mm films are free and open to the pubic.

Fall showings scheduled include:

• “Y tu mama tambien” (“And your mother too”), Oct. 6, is a 2001 Mexican film about two self-styled urban cowboys who accompany an older woman on a quest to find the pefect beach.

• “Nine Queens” (“Neuve reinas”), Oct. 13, a homage to Alfred Hitchcock and David Mamet, is a 2002 Argentine film about a couple of con artists who join forces for a scam involving rare stamps.

• “The Devil’s Backbone” (“El espinazo del diablo”), Oct. 20, from Spain, 2002, is a ghost story set during the final days of the Spanish Civil War in a crumbling boarding school where the sins of the adults are spiritually revisited on the children.

• “Dogtown and Z-Boys,” Oct. 27, is a 2001 American film that revisits the 1970s and L.A.’s last beachfront slum to witness the birth of modern skateboarding.

• “Baran,” Nov. 3, is a 2001 Iranian film set on a construction site in Iran, where one of the illegal Afghani immigrant workers is a young girl disguised as a boy.

“Baran,” an Iranian film showing Nov. 3.

• “Osamu Tezuka’s Metropolis” (“Robotic Angel”), Nov. 10, a tribute to Fritz Lang’s “Metropolis,”is a 2001 Japanese film set in a futuristic city where a tyrant enacts his plan to rule. The question is,will the workers and the robots go along?

• “No Man’s Land” (“Nikogarsnja zemlja”), Nov. 17, is a 2001 film from Slovenia, in which a Bosnian and a Serb solder are trapped together in a trench with an unexploded mine—and what happens when U.N. officals and a television journalist arrive.

• “The Fast Runner” (“Atanarjuat”), Nov. 24, is a 2001 Canadian film that retells a thousand-year old Inuit legend about a blood feud between families unleashed by shamanistic forces.

Sponsors include the Faculty Senate Committee on Cultural Activities and Public Events, the Office of the Provost and the Department of English’s Film Program. “Fast Runner” is sponsored by the University Gallery and the Center for American Material Culture Studies.

For information, call (302) 831-4066, or visit [http://www.english.udel.edu/ifs/].