[The numbered bits are suppressed blogs. Do you write blogs in your head all the time? And then somehow not commit them to screen? Am I just weird? Oh shut up.]
In Barbarian Invasions, which was the high point of the film fest for me -
The professor's ex-students come to visit him [they've been bribed by his son to do so, but we don't know this - or I don't know this - at this point]. They hang around awkwardly, say they miss him, and then leave.
One of the friends, also an ageing academic type: For illiterates, they're really quite sweet.