University Film Series: "Children of Men"

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University Film Series presents Children of Men Tuesday, November 10, 6:00 p.m., Ayres 106 Free and open to the public! Color, 109 minutes. Directed by Alfonso Cuarón, United Kingdom and United States, 2006 Introduced by Professor Alisa Wade (HIST). Children of Men is a sci-fi action adventure set in a dystopian future in which two decades of worldwide infertility has led to chaos and societal collapse. Those seeking asylum make their way to the United Kingdom, but are instead imperiled by threats of detention or deportation. In the film, a British bureaucrat-turned-reluctant activist (Clive Owen) finds hope when he becomes the protector of the world's only pregnant woman, a refugee named Kee (Clare-Hope Ashitey).