To RSVP, please click here. Xiaolu Guo presents her work in words and film, and draws connections to her own life, in conversation with Carol Gluck. Xiaolu Guo is a British Chinese novelist, essayist and filmmaker. Her memoir, Nine Continents, received the National Book Critics Circle Award for Autobiography in 2017. She was an inaugural fellow at the Columbia Institute…
To RSVP, please click here. Following the coup d’état of December 2, 1851, President Louis Napoleon Bonaparte was crowned Emperor Napoleon III, setting off a bloody campaign of repression to root out his opponents. In some regions, entire villages were cleared of their adult male population. Marine Francen’s ravishing first feature uses this historical context and the true story of…
Angela Schanelec in person February 7 & 8 German director Angela Schanelec’s films have a rhythm and tone all their own—mysterious yet moving, they unearth the metaphysics rumbling beneath the placid surface of everyday life. Her work with actors is like that of no other filmmaker, a radical approach to performance that draws on her own background in theater traditions…
Join the Harriman Institute and Open Society Foundations for a screening of the film And Then We Danced (2020) followed by a panel discussion with the director Levan Akin, Julie George, Visiting Associate Professor of International and Public Affairs, Columbia University, and Tanya Domi, Adjunct Professor of International and Public Affairs, Columbia University. Film runtime: 1 hour 53 minutes. English subtitles. Click here to purchase tickets…
Join the Harriman Institute and the Russian Film Club for a screening of the 2015 film The Land of Oz, directed by Vasily Sigarev. This event is part of the Russian Cinema Between Protests Film Series, organized by Mark Lipovetsky (Slavic Department) and Daria Ezerova (Harriman Institute). The film has a runtime of 100 minutes and will be presented with English subtitles. SYNOPSIS: Blending Gogolian satire with absurdist poetics, this…
The Ukrainian Film Club of Columbia University presents a screening of the new documentary film The Earth Is Blue as an Orange (2020) followed by a Q&A with director Iryna Tsilyk. Russian and Ukrainian with English subtitles. Film runtime: 74 minutes. Anna is a single mother living under siege with her four children in the war zone of Donbas, Ukraine. While there are…
Join the East Central European Center at the Harriman Institute for a screening of the film The Goat Horn (Козият рог, 1972, dir. Metodi Andonov). Film runtime: 103 min. The Goat Horn is a 1972 Bulgarian dramatic feature film, starring Anton Gorchev and Katya Paskaleva. The film is set in 17th-century Bulgaria, where Kara Ivan’s wife is raped and killed by four local Ottoman…
Join us for a screening of Yury Shchekochikhin: His Life in Words and Deeds (2017), followed by a panel discussion. Golden Film Studio’s 40-minute documentary examines the life and work of investigative journalist and Duma representative Yury Shchekochikhin. An outspoken champion of democracy, free expression, and the rule of law during perestroika and in post-Soviet Russia, Shchekochikhin was famous for his…
Audre Lorde’s incisive, often-angry, but always brilliant writings and speeches defined and inspired the feminist, lesbian, Black, and women-of-color movements of the 1970s and 1980s in the United States. Audre Lorde: The Berlin Years, 1984 to 1992 documents a less-known chapter of Lorde’s life: her time in West Berlin and her influence on the German political and cultural scene during…
Screening of the Romanian documentary film "Teach " (Profu'), recipinet of the Best Central and East European Documentary Film Award at the 2019 Ji.hlava International Documentary Film Festival. A peculiar math teacher from Transilvania is becoming a local Don Quijote when he quits the conventional educational system and opens a private lectures office in his own two-room apartment. Throughout a…
As part of the CALA Spring 2020 film series "Your Voices, Your Votes: Activism around the World,” the NYU Center for Applied Liberal Arts and Deutsches Haus at NYU present a screening of the film The Edukators (2005), directed by Hans Weingartner. The introduction will be held by Marie-Luise Goldmann. About the film: The Edukators. Germany. 2005. Directed by Hans Weingartner. Written by Armin Ortmann. With…
Explore the world without leaving New York! The New York International Children’s Film Festival takes place February 21 through March 15, 2020 throughout New York City, with 10 screenings at Scandinavia House. For complete lineup and tickets visit nyicff.org/tickets. Fill out a ballot at every screening, and your votes will determine the Festival award winners. MOOMINVALLEY SAT—February 22—11 AM 66 min.…
Lights, Camera, Action! The NYSJFF showcases contemporary voices steeped in the history, traditions, and rich mosaic culture of Greater Sephardic communities. This year’s festival includes premiere film screenings, intriguing stories, evocative documentaries, powerful narratives, Q&As with filmmakers, as well as special honorees, dignitaries, and diplomats. The Pomegranate Awards Ceremony celebrates Sephardi excellence in the arts. In partnership with YUM, ASF…
Fonja is a film made by the youngest and possibly most exceptional filmcrew of Madagascar. Over the course of a four months film production workshop, ten detainees from the male youth prison of Madagascar’s largest detention center in the capital Antananarivo discover the camera for the first time. Fonja (2019). Directors: Ravo Henintsoa Andrianatoandro, Lovatiana Desire Santatra, Sitraka Hermann Ramanamokatra,…
Explore the world without leaving New York! The New York International Children’s Film Festival takes place February 21 through March 15, 2020 throughout New York City, with 10 screenings at Scandinavia House. For complete lineup and tickets visit nyicff.org/tickets. Fill out a ballot at every screening, and your votes will determine the Festival award winners. TOO FAR AWAY SAT—February 29—12:30 PM…