The selected fiction features, documentaries, and short films tell stories that reckon with human nature’s irrational currents hidden within the self, and the state, and offer a framework for renegotiating dominant structures in society. Together they offer an homage to the most epiphanic Olympian god Dionysus. The ancient god draws men and women out of their static sense of self (ec-stasy), rendering them strangers to their own social self, to help them discover that life and death entwine and intersect, and the Same is necessarily inhabited by the Other.  

Receptions following the weekend screenings are sponsored by the Department of Classics & Archaeology, the Bellarmine Forum, the School of Film & Television, the Office of Global Local Affairs, and the Office of International Students and Scholars.