The events, free and open to the public, will take place in the Center for the Arts Screening Room (Room 112). Some events are co-sponsored by the Polish Community Center as part of Kino Polskie III, Buffalo's Polish Film Festival. Others are co-sponsored by Hallwalls Contemporary Arts Center and other UB departments.

The schedule:

Thursday, Nov. 2, 7:30 p.m., two films curated by UB Media Study grad student Gail Mantlik and co-sponsored by the Polish Community Center of Buffalo and Hallwalls Contemporary Arts Center in connection with Buffalo's Kino Polskie III Film Festival.

- A Woman Alone by Agnieska Holland, 1981, a powerful performance by Maria Chwalibog in a poetic tale of two misfits finding love under martial law.

- 89 mm from Europe by Marcel Lozinski, 1993, winner of 1994 Academy Award for Best Short Documentary, a poetic meditation on the rift between East and West.

Monday, Nov. 6, 7:30 p.m., film screening: You Haven't Heard the Record, You Haven't Read the Book, NOW!! Don't See the Movie! An evening titled "A So-called Whatever" features the above-named recent film presented in person by its director, a self-described "mad scientist, sound thinker, thought collector, as been (sic) and psychopathfinder."

Tuesday, Nov. 7, 7 p.m., Filmmaker Keith Sanborn, UB visiting assistant professor of media study, presents a juried program of work by advanced media study students. Part of the department's "Tuesdays at 7" program.

Thursday, Nov. 9, 7:30 p.m., screening of two films by Krzysztof Kielsowski co-sponsored by the Polish Community Center and Hallwalls as part of Buffalo's Kino Polskie III Festival.

- A Short Film About Killing (Krotki film o zabijaniu), 1987; winner of the 1988 Cannes Film Festival Jury Award and the Felix (Europe's Academy Award) for Best Film.

- Night Porter's Point of View (Zpunktu widzenia nocnego portiera), 1978.

Films comprise a feature-length extension of two parts of Krzysztof Kieslowski's Decalogue, a meditation on moral choice in a secular world. Kieslowski is considered by many to be the most important European director of the last two decades.

Monday, Nov. 13, 7:30 p.m., Investigation of Related Events, 1993 Latvian/Eng. subtitles. Latvian director and UB grad student Janis Putnins presents his film, which tells about a young man who becomes involved in the investigation of a friend's death only to find himself subverted by the public manipulation of beliefs, events, dreams, myths and symbols. Actor Armands Reinfelds won the 1993 Kristaps, Latvia's National Film Center Best Actor Award, for his performance.

Wednesday, Nov. 15, 7:30 p.m., Challenging the Academy: UB Women in Poland. Screening of Polish director Maria Zmarz-Koszanowicz's controversial 1994 documentary, My Road to Feminism, followed by a panel discussion moderated by Media Study Professor Tony Conrad. Film includes interviews with UB professors who visited Poland as part of the ongoing exchange program between UB and Jagiellonian University. Among UB faculty interviewed were Isabel Marcus (Law), Claire Kahane (English), Elizabeth Kennedy (American Studies), Carolyn Korsmeyer (Philosophy), Elizabeth Cromley (Architecture), Carol Zemel (Art History) and UB exchange scholar Margaret Lisowska-Magdziarz, Department of Journalism, Jagiellonian University.

Monday, Nov. 20, 7:30 p.m., film screening, Home of the Future, works by Richard Wicka, president of the board of Hallwalls Contemporary Arts Center. Wicka lives and works at The Home of the Future in Buffalo's Ogden Street neighborhood. The "Home" houses a complete production studio where he has produced a wide variety of works which include more than 100 videos with former Hallwalls curator Ron Ehmke.

Tuesday, Nov. 28, 7 p.m., A Film/Video Harvest Table, a gathering from the video and films of fall. Event is part of Tuesdays at 7. A casual harvest reception will follow.