DHEEPAN Showing at The Plaza Cinema Media & Arts Center

The Plaza Cinema & Media Arts Center is teaming up with faculty and students at St. Joseph’s College for exciting discussions after each film. Films are a combination of current critically acclaimed independent films and American Classics.

DHEEPAN - Playing 6/11 at 11:30am and 6/16 at 7:30pm

Dheepan (R) On the losing side of a civil war in Sri Lanka, a Tamil soldier (Antonythasan Jesuthasan) poses as the husband and father of two other refugees in order to escape their ravaged homeland. Arriving in France, the makeshift "family" sets about establishing a new life-only to find themselves once again embroiled in violence on the mean streets of Paris. A heartrending saga of three strangers united by circumstance and struggle, Dheepan is both a tour-de-force thriller and a powerful depiction of the immigrant experience.

Winner of the 2015 Cannes Film Festival Palm d'Or

Directed by Jacques Audiard
Starring Jesuthasan Anthonythasan, Kalieaswari Srinivasan, Claudine Vinasithamby

As a part of the Cineaste series both screenings will include post-film discussions with faculty and alumni from the St. Joseph's College Film Studies program.

Chief Curator, Peter Mascuch, PhD. 
A tenured Associate Professor of English and American Studies and Coordinator of the Cinema Studies Program, Peter Mascuch, Ph.D. has taught at St. Joseph’s College since 2003. He specializes in Film Studies, with a particular focus on American cinema since 1945. Together with Campbell Dalglish, Peter Mascuch has co-hosted The Plaza’s Annual Oscar Party in 2015 and 2016. Dr. Mascuch has conducted many Q&A sessions at The Plaza and previously moderated two other film series.

Guest speakers include: Campbell Dalglish, Tom Petriano, Jennifer Gagliardi and Gregory Bruno