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Virtual Screening + Live Q&A: “The Making of a Man.” Stig Dagerman in Paris, 1947
Virtual Screening + Live Q&A: “The Making of a Man.” Stig Dagerman in Paris, 1947
The Making of a Man (48 min, 2019) explores courage, cowardice and toxic masculinity across time and place (postwar France, Sweden and contemporary USA). Its point of departure is a play by Swedish writer Stig Dagerman, set in Paris reeling in the aftermath of Nazi occupation.
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German Movie Nights: “Western”
The German Film Office is pleased to present Western by Valeska Grisebach as part of its monthly German Movie Nights series. An intense, slow-burning thriller, Western follows a group of German construction workers installing a hydroelectric plant in remote rural Bulgaria. The foreign land awakens the men’s sense of adventure, but tensions mount when Meinhard, the strong, silent newcomer to the group,…
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Virtual Cinema: Africa on the Seine, L’Envers du décor, A Nation is Born, Lamb
This program of documentary shorts is both a stirring introduction to the Beninese/Senegalese filmmaker Paulin Soumanou Vieyra, considered the first sub-Saharan African film director and a rich overview of the period of African independence and nation-building. Vieyra’s 1955 essay film Africa on the Seine (co-directed with Mamadou Sarr) begins on the banks of the Niger but moves quickly to Paris, “the capital…
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Film/Panel Discussion: A Conversation about films by Paulin Vieyra, with Stéphane Vieyra, Souleymane Bachir Diagne and Mamadou Diouf
Film/Panel Discussion: A Conversation about films by Paulin Vieyra, with Stéphane Vieyra, Souleymane Bachir Diagne and Mamadou Diouf
Four short films by Paulin Vieyra are being presented by the Columbia Maison Française online from March 14 through March 21: Africa on the Seine, L'Envers du décor, A Nation is Born, and Lamb. This conversation and is presented as part of the Columbia Maison Française Tournées Film Festival.
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Virtual Cinema: “Faat Kiné”
Like Borom Sarret, Black Girl, The Money Order, and Xala, Ousmane Sembene’s film Faat Kiné is another chapter in the writer-director’s laser-sharp commentary of post-independence in Senegal. Faat Kiné brings the viewer face to face with politically, economically, and morally corrupt social fabric.
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The Annual Barra Ó Donnabháin Lecture: Manchán Magan
The Annual Barra Ó Donnabháin Lecture: Manchán Magan
Explore these interwoven trails which create a map of Irishness, yesterday, today and tomorrow. A virtual excursion, traversing land and lore, with Manchán Magan, filmmaker, travel writer and author of Thirty-Two Words for Field, (Gill Books, 2020).