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Films, documentaries, and shorts from all over the world will premier during the 12th annual New Jersey International Film Festival. The festival, which runs from June 1 to August 13, is sponsored by the Rutgers Film Co-op/New Jersey Media Arts Center, in association with the Rutgers University Program in Cinema Studies. Nearly 50 international and domestic films, a few made in New Jersey by local filmmakers, will be shown at different locations around the New Brunswick Campus. There also will be special appearances by visiting directors and other professionals, and filmmaking workshops. For more information and a complete list of screenings, visit www.njfilmfest.com. Here are a few of the highlighted films from the festival:

June 1: The Namesake                        Scott 123-7 p.m.

The Namesake, directed by Academy Award nominee Mira Nair, is the story of the Ganguli family and their struggle to balance a new world without forgetting the old. The Namesake is based on the best-selling novel by Jhumpa Lahiri.

June 2: Revolution ’67                          Scott 123-7 p.m.

Revolution ’67 explores the story of the Newark riots in 1967 through archival footage and bold animation, and from stories of the people who lived it. Filmmaker Marylou Tibaldo-Bongiorno will appear at the screening.

June 3: Twisted: A Balloonamentary    Scott 123-7 p.m.     

Directors Sara Taksler and Naomi Greenfield made this heartwarming documentary about people who discover that once they can make a balloon dog, they can do anything. The Daily Show’s Jon Stewart narrates the animation in this hilarious look at passion, love, death, and a whole lot of latex.

Women artists reinterpret female nude in 'Eccentric Bodies' at Mason Gross Galleries

June 14 to August 3

Seven contemporary women artists reinterpret the female nude beyond the conventional, contemporary, and feminist gazes that have characterized its artistic conception in “Eccentric Bodies,” an exhibition of photography, painting, sculpture, and video. Photographers Harriet Casdin-Silver, Boston, Massachusetts, and Ernestine Ruben, Princeton, New Jersey; painters Bailey Doogan, Tucson, Arizona, and Brenda Goodman, New York City; performance and video artists Orlan, of Paris, France, and Berni Searle, Johannesburg, South Africa; and sculptor Linda Stein, New York City, present their female nudes, sometimes their own bodies, bearing the imprints of life, age, ethnicity, and cultural identity.

Curated by Judith K. Brodsky and Ferris Olin, codirectors of the Institute for Women and Art at Rutgers University, the exhibition runs from June 14 through August 3 at the Mason Gross Galleries at Civic Square, 33 Livingston Ave., New Brunswick. A reception with the artists is 5 p.m. to 7 p.m., June 14.

Admission is free. For information, call 732-932-7084, ext. 838, or click here.

Rutgers–Camden Cappuccino Academy June 7

Acclaimed writer Susan Muaddi Darraj will read from her collection of short stories, The Inheritance of Exile: Stories from South Philly, at Barnes & Noble in Marlton at 7:30 p.m. Thursday, June 7.

A finalist for the Associated Writing Programs Award Series in Short Fiction, The Inheritance of Exile weaves a tapestry of the events and struggles in the lives of four Palestinian-American women searching for home in the cultural gap that exists between the Middle East and the United States.

Muaddi Darraj is an associate professor of English at Harford Community College in Bel Air, Maryland., and is senior editor of The Baltimore Review. Editor of the book, Scheherazade's Legacy: Arab and Arab American Women on Writing, Mauddi Darraj has published her fiction, essays, and articles in several journals and anthologies. She earned her bachelor’s and master’s in English from Rutgers’ Camden Campus.

The lecture is part of Cappuccino Academy, a monthly series of free public lectures delivered by members of the Rutgers–Camden community at Barnes & Noble. For more information, call 856-225-6627.

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Summer exhibitions on the Newark Campus

'City of Muses: Newark Artists and their Students'

Che Guevara poster exhibition at Mason Gross Galleries

Marking the year of the 40th anniversary of Che Guevara’s death, Mason Gross Galleries at Civic Square presents a show inspired by an extensive private collection of posters, dating from the 1960s to the present, that depict the iconic Marxist revolutionary. “Beauty is in the Street: The Iconography of Idealism” brings the collection together with specially commissioned contemporary artworks made in response to the posters as printed artifacts and as ideas.

“The exhibition looks at the continued power of Che as a symbol of hope and of opposition across cultures,” said curator Gerry Beegan, a professor of visual arts at Mason Gross School of the Arts. “Whatever one might think of his beliefs, his use of violence, and his political failures, Che retains a remarkable cultural resonance 40 years after his death.”

“Beauty is in the Street” also will include works from New Brunswick High School students who were mentored by Mason Gross design students. They applied the concepts they learned to their own icons using the Guevara posters as models. The show can be seen Thursday through Saturday from noon to 6 p.m. and runs through June 8. Admission to the gallery is free. For more information, click here.

 Poster above by Mason Gross visual arts instructor Carrie Moyer

Mothers: Paintings and Installations

For artist Joanne Leone Corris, it was her own mother that inspired her to create the works that are on display in her new exhibition “Mothers: Paintings and Installations. “I have always felt nurtured in the world surrounded by loving people, many of them mothers and grandmothers,” said Corris. The show, which is part of the Feminist Project at Rutgers University Exhibition and co-sponsored by the Institute for Women’s Leadership, features an array of paintings devoted to women and their experiences as mothers.

“Mothers” is Corris’s third solo show at the John Dana Cotton Library in Newark. It is on display in the Dana Gallery through August 31, and a portion will be shown through December 20 in the Dana Room. The exhibit can be viewed from 8 a.m. to 10 p.m. Monday through Thursday, 8 a.m. to 5 p.m. Fridays, and 10 a.m. to 6 p.m. on Saturdays until August 15. The gallery will then operate on a shorter schedule through September 2. For more hours and other information please contact the gallery at 973-353-5222.