The Humanities Center at CMU is hosting the CMU International Film Festival through April 2. This year’s theme, “Faces of Change,” aims to explore the nature of change through films such as “Full Time” and “Joyland.”

Jolanta Lion, assistant director of Carnegie Mellon’s Humanities Center and part-time Polish instructor at Pitt, recalls asking pedestrians about the significance of masks in their lives leading up to the Carnegie Mellon International Film Festival.