Film: Forbidden Games (Jeux interdits)

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

Forbidden Games (Jeux interdits) A film by René Clément, 1952, 86 min. To RSVP, please click here. A great classic film set during World War II: two children attempt to overcome the brutality of the surrounding world by creating a paradise of their own.

Film: Paragraph 175

Goethe-Institut New York 30 Irving Place, New York City

Rupert Everett narrates this harrowing documentary about the persecution of homosexuals by the Nazis based on an obscure paragraph in Germany’s penal code dating back to 1871. Dir. Robert Epstein/Jeffrey Friedman 2000, 81 min.   From GOETHE-INSTITUT NEW YORK