Robin Camillo, Laurent Cantet, 2017, 113 min. To RSVP, please click here. In The Workshop, acclaimed writer-director Laurent Cantet takes an illuminating approach to a variety of key issues haunting contemporary France. Olivia, a successful Parisian novelist, has been hired to spend the summer in La Ciotat, a beautiful but economically battered town on the Mediterranean, teaching a writing workshop for a diverse…
Jews are hounded by mobs and driven from Vienna in this 1924 expressionist film based on the satirical novel by Hugo Bettauer. The sensational film that anticipated the Holocaust and cost Bettauer his life was rediscovered in 2015. With commentary by film scholar Noah Isenberg (UT Austin) and a live score. Recently restored and featuring a new soundtrack, The City Without…
Deutsches Haus at NYU and the Colloquium for Unpopular Culture present "Think Herzog," to mark the publication of Richard Eldrige's book Werner Herzog: Filmmaker and Philosopher. Richard Eldridge will be in conversation with fellow Herzogian David LaRocca about seeing and knowing and laughing, about flares and abysses, about indifference and the sky. "Academia stifles cinema, encircling it like a liana vine wraps round a…
Unlike the Federal Republic, by 1968 the German Democratic Republic’s penal code had de-criminalized homosexuality. But the “workers’ and farmers’ state” did not exactly welcome its gay and lesbian citizens with open arms; their sexuality was taboo and they were often marginalized from public life. The generation of gay men and women who had seen the war and were now…
Deutsches Haus at NYU, in partnership with the Heinrich Böll Foundation, presents a screening of the film Wackersdorf (2018), a true story of community, taking a stand against injustice and corruption, and being a local-level politician taking on a much stronger governing power. Oliver Haffner, director of the film, will be present at the screening. Following the screening, Oliver Haffner…
«Human with a Stool» goes on a tour across the cities of the US. The authors will present the film, and answer questions about the creative process. The screening and Q&A in New York Date and start Time: April 12, 7pm Address: DCTV 87 Lafayette Street, New York, NY 10013 «Human with a Stool» – an adventure documentary film about…
Please join the Ukrainian Film Club at Columbia University for a screening of the film Hunger for Truth (2017), directed by Andrew Tkach. Professor Yuri Shevchukwill introduce the film and mediate the discussion. Hunger for Truth tells the story of Rhea Clyman, a brave Canadian reporter who uncovered a “crime of the century”— Stalin’s genocidal famine in Ukraine of 1932-33, also known as the…
General: $10 ($7 for seniors) The recent uptick in antisemitic, anti-immigrant, and racist rhetoric have created a burst of new interest in the acclaimed documentary, From Swastika to Jim Crow. Based on the book by Gabrielle Simon Edgcomb, the film tells the little-known story of two very different cultures, sharing a common burden of oppression. In the 1930s, German universities were…
Director: Simon Lereng Wilmont, 2017, 90 min, Denmark/Sweden/Finland. "The Distant Barking of Dogs" is set in Eastern Ukraine on the frontline of the war. The film follows the life of 10-year-old Ukrainian boy Oleg throughout a year, witnessing the gradual erosion of his innocence beneath the pressures of war. Oleg lives with his beloved grandmother, Alexandra, in the small village…
Emmanuel Gras, 2018, 96 min. To RSVP, please click here. Makala is an extraordinarily revealing and surprisingly gorgeous look at everyday life for a charcoal salesman in the Democratic Republic of Congo. French documentary filmmaker Emmanuel Gras follows 28-year-old Kabwita Kasongo through the entire process of making and selling charcoal: finding and cutting down a tree in the vast plains near his village…
"You are famous. You wanted to be. Being famous means having someone like me." - Sebastian Zöllner Germany just before the turn of the millenium. Sebastian Zöllner (Daniel Brühl), art journalist and master of overconfidence, plans his big coup: a tell-all book about the legendary but nearly forgotten painter Manel Kaminski (Jesper Christensen), student of Matisse and friend of Picasso,…
Deutsches Haus at NYU, in partnership with the Consulate General of Switzerland New York and SALA (Swiss American Lawyers Association), presents a screening of the Swiss documentary Emilie Kempin-Spyri. Rahel Grunder, the film's director, will be present and speak about her film and the life of Emilie Kempin-Spyri. About the film: Emilie Kempin-Spyri. Written and directed by Rahel Grunder. Switzerland, 2015, 52. min, in German with…
Price: $15 general admission $11/$9 seniors, students/youth Followed by a conversation with lead actress Marie Bäumer As part of Panorama Europe 2019, the Goethe-Institut is pleased to present the New York premiere of Emily Atef’s film 3 Days in Quiberon. Actress Marie Bäumer accomplishes an amazing feat in Atef’s engrossing drama about an extensive interview that Romy Schneider gave while staying at…
Price: $15 general admission $11/$9 seniors, students/youth As part of Panorama Europe 2019, the Museum of the Moving Image presents Alan Cavalier’s Le combat dans l'île as a sidebar screening to Emily Atef’s 3 Days in Quiberon. Romy Schneider is at her best as the wife of an industrialist and right-wing extremist played by Jean-Louis Trintignant, in this rarely screened…