Film: Iuventa

La Maison Française (Columbia) Buell Hall, 515 West 116th Street, New York City

Iuventa Michele Cinque, 2018, 92 min. To RSVP, please click here. A film screening and discussion with director Michele Cinque and Kathrin Schmidt, in conversation with Carlo Invernizzi Accetti, Rajan Menon, Adam Tooze, and Nadia Urbinati. This event marks the launch of "Thinking Europe Now," a new interdisciplinary seminar series on European affairs convened by faculty from Columbia University and the…

Film Screening and Discussion: La grieta (The Divide)

King Juan Carlos I of Spain Center 53 Washington Square South, New York

La Grieta (The Divide) by Irene Yagüe and Alberto García Ortiz (Spain, 2017, 76’) Following the local government’s sale of thousands of public apartments to foreign investment funds in 2013, many families living in Madrid were forced to leave their homes. This film takes a hard look and, despite the implicit drama, is not without humor when it comes to two…