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...crooked smugglers, in the backs of suffocating trucks, on the decks of leaking fishing boats - to reach Europe. Abdi Salan crossed Ethiopia, Sudan, Libya and the Mediterranean before touching Italian territory. His journey started in January, when he left his family and friends behind to embark on a harrowing odyssey in pursuit of his European dream. This is his story. THE FIRST STEP In Mogadishu, the sweet-faced, rail-thin young man named Abdi Salan Mohammed Hassan is known for his football prowess. He plays endless matches in the city's empty lots and with his quick feet and broad...
...Alps. Their lives interweave with two romantic relationships, and the birth and death of two children. The story is told against sweeping, gorgeous landscape panoramas of the snowy Alps, and Tykwer quotes from films like Hitchcock’s Spellbound and Kubrick’s 2001: A Space Odyssey to present his analysis of a confused, noncommittal generation. 9 p.m. Tickets $8; $6 students. Harvard Film Archives...
...Allston Odyssey...
...from typhoid at the age of 41. Tristan spends most of it traveling around southern France, pleading her vision of a cooperative future to small, mostly uncomprehending audiences. Years earlier she had fled her abusive husband, taking their small daughter Aline, Gauguin's mother. Tristan thinks back on the odyssey that then took her as far as Peru, where she went in hope of securing an inheritance from her late Peruvian father. The money was denied her, but Tristan was dauntless, the sort of woman who would later dress as a man to investigate conditions in London slums and sponsor...
FILM | 2001: A Space Odyssey...