About nine years before the fall of the Wall: Barbara, a doctor from Berlin, applies for an exit permit from the GDR. She is arrested and transferred to a provincial hospital after her release in the summer of 1980. While her lover prepares for her escape to the West via the Baltic Sea, Barbara works as a paediatric surgeon, under…
In conjunction with the exhibition NeoRealismo: The New Image in Italy, 1932-1960 Ossessione (Italy, 1943, 140 min.) In ITALIAN with ENGLISH subtitles Directed by Luchino Visconti Starring Clara Calamai, Massimo Girotti Introduced by David Forgacs, NYU Luchino Visconti’s first film, Ossessione (1943), shot on location in the Po Delta with stunning photography by Domenico Scala and Aldo Tonti, is widely considered…
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…
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…
Luis Garcia Berlanga’s black-comedy masterpiece of 1963, _El verdugo_ critiques Franco-era values through a macabre farce about an undertaker who marries an executioner’s daughter and reluctantly takes over her father’s job. Influenced by Italian neorealism, this caustic film depicts what Berlanga called “the invisible traps that society sets up for us”. A personal attack on both capital punishment and Fascist Spain, it…
NY Premiere Screening with Filmmaker Aaron Wolf. In Partnership with the American Jewish Historical Society and the Center for Jewish History. Director Aaron Wolf’s personal journey of rediscovery comes alive in Restoring Tomorrow, the story of how a treasured local temple near demise is lifted up by a community’s determination. Wolf’s documentary explores how, when any community puts their mind…
NY Premiere Screening with Filmmaker Aaron Wolf. In Partnership with the American Jewish Historical Society and the Center for Jewish History. Director Aaron Wolf’s personal journey of rediscovery comes alive in Restoring Tomorrow, the story of how a treasured local temple near demise is lifted up by a community’s determination. Wolf’s documentary explores how, when any community puts their mind…
Please join the Ukrainian Film Club of Columbia University for a screening of the film Frost (2017) as part of the Fall 2018 Olena Yershova Retrospective Film Series at Columbia. Producer Olena Yershovawill participate in the discussion. Frost, directed by Sharunas Bartas of Lithuania, is an unheroic road story of discovery when a selfless Lithuanian couple drives a truck loaded with humanitarian aid for Ukrainians…
In conjunction with the exhibition NeoRealismo: The New Image in Italy, 1932-1960 Roma città aperta (Italy, 1945, 103 min.) In ITALIAN with ENGLISH subtitles Directed by Roberto Rossellini Starring Anna Magnani, Aldo Fabrizi, Marcello Pagliero Introduced by Stefano Albertini, NYU This harrowing 1945 drama by Roberto Rossellini centers on the Nazi occupation of Rome and the brave few who struggled against…
Presenting "Screening Statues: Sculpture and Cinema" Screening of: Il fauno (Italy, 1917, 70 min.) Silent with English intertitles Restored in 1994 by the Cinemathèque Royale Belgique (now Cinematek), from original nitrate prints from the Cineteca Friuli and the Museo Nazionale del Cinema Torino. Directed, written and starring Febo Mari Featuring live accompaniment by Tal Shtuhl Introduction by author Vito Adriaensens…