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Discuss “International Film Festival begins with Piter FM”

Last Thursday was the beginning of Carnegie Mellon’s Fourth International Film Festival: Youth and Identity. Each of the films selected represents one of the seven languages taught in the modern languages department (Russian, German, French, Italian, Spanish, Japanese and Chinese), and all of them relate to issues facing youths from around the world.

Free to the community, the International Film Festival began in 2004 with the goal of promoting foreign languages and increasing awareness of the cinema outside the U.S.. The theme of this year’s festival, Youth and Identity, was chosen for its relevance to college students. The seven films all deal with recent issues; only one, Cinema Paradiso, was produced before 2002.

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