Two Flags – Film Screening and Discussion with Director

Avery Fisher Center for Music and Media, Elmer Holmes Bobst Library, 7th Floor Elmer Holmes Bobst Library, 70 Washington Square South New York, New York

Two Flags 2019, 60 mins. Director: Pankaj Rishi Kumar In English and French with subtitles in English Two Flags chronicles the life and politics of Pondicherry, a former French colony in South India where 6,000 Tamils who identify as French gear up for the French presidential elections of 2017. The film explores the idea of state, citizenship and home in…

After Hitler: The Untold Story

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

Featuring Olivier Wieviorka, ENS Paris-Saclay, documentary co-director.   After Hitler: the Untold Story (2016, 90 min), directed by Olivier Wieviorka and David Korn-Brzoza. Documentary film screening and discussion with historian and co-director Olivier Wieviorka about the role of the historian in creating documentary films.

After Hitler: the Untold Story

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

To RSVP, please click here. Documentary film screening and discussion with historian and co-director Olivier Wieviorka about the role of the historian in creating documentary films. In the five years that separated the end of the Second World War from the start of the Cold War, the world had hoped for a lasting peace, but instead found itself on the brink of…