With midterm season in the air, it’s hard to think about going to the movies. But the Philadelphia Film Festival, which came to a close on Saturday night, celebrated 10 days of screening films that served as a well-deserved study break for some students.
The Philadelphia Film Festival, which is organized by the Philadelphia Film Society and co-sponsored by Penn, ran from Oct. 18 to 28 and featured both local Philadelphia films as well as films from all over the world.
“The film festival is a vehicle to learn about what’s happening in world cinema,” Associate Director of Cinema Studies Nicola Gentili said.
The festival screened films at two locations on Penn’s campus: The Rave and Annenberg’s Zellerbach Theater, which held both the opening and closing night screenings and seated about 1,000 people on both nights. Movies screened included “Silver Linings Playbook,” featuring Jennifer Lawrence and Bradley Cooper, and “Flight,” which stars Denzel Washington.
“It’s terrific to utilize the Zellerbach to showcase films the way [they are] meant to be seen,” Tony Sorrentino, Executive Director of
