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Redemption Blues

Casa Italiana Zerilli-Marimò (NYU) 24 West 12th Street, New York City, NY, United States

(Peter Stastny, 2017) This event is part of Giorno della Memoria under the auspices of the Consulate General of Italy and in collaboration with Centro Primo Levi. Additional information available at www.primolevicenter.org. Redemption Blues (2017, Documentary, 84 min.) Directed by Peter Stastny Produced by Peter Stastny, Lucia Schrenk, Roland Hablesreiter – Transmitter Film Followed by a discussion between director Peter Statsny and Paola…

Film: Ridicule

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

To RSVP, please click here. Set in late 18th-century France during the reign of Louis XVI, this comedy provides a fascinating glance into a time where a cruel rapier wit would take one further up the social ladder than gold, land, or birthright and where ridicule could drive a man to suicide.

Film: Margarethe Von Trotta’s Rosa Luxemburg

Goethe-Institut New York 30 Irving Place, New York City, NY, United States

On the occasion of the 100th anniversary of the death of Rosa Luxemburg, we are hosting a film screening of Margarethe von Trotta’s film Rosa Luxemburg(1986). The film depicts the life story of this thinker and activist of the international left, portrayed in the film by the great actress Barbara Sukowa. Amidst the growing militarization that preceded World War I, Rosa…

CALA Spring 2019 Film Series: “Crime and Punishment Around the World: Incarceration on Film”

Deutsches Haus NYU 42 Washington Mews, New York City, NY, United States

As part of the CALA Spring 2019 Film Series “Crime and Punishment Around the World: Incarceration on Film,” the NYU Center for Applied Liberal Arts and Deutsches Haus at NYU present a screening of the German film "Sophie Scholl – Die letzten Tage" (2005), directed by Marc Rothemund and starring Julia Jentsch. The film is a dramatization of the final days of Sophie Scholl, one of…

Journey: Portrait of Vera Chytilova

Bohemian National Hall 321 E 73rd St., New York, NY, United States

A documentary film about Věra Chytilová, a prominent Czech director and a creative force of the Czechoslovak New Wave in the 1960s. “Striving, with or without success… that is the pathos of the human existence” – Chytilová talks about her life endeavour, the rises and falls, the losts and founds and primarily, about creativity. Director: Jasmina Blaževič, 2004, 52 min,…

Film: Tomorrow (Demain)

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

A film by Olivier Dion and Mélanie Laurent, 2015, 118 min. To RSVP, please click here. Film by Cyril Dion and Mélanie Laurent. As mankind is threatened by the collapse of the ecosystems, Cyril, Mélanie, Alexandre, Laurent, Raphäel and Antoine, all in their thirties, explore the world in search of solutions that can save their children, and with them, future generations.…

It Will Be Chaos

Casa Italiana Zerilli-Marimò (NYU) 24 West 12th Street, New York City, NY, United States

Lorena Luciano & Filippo Piscopo, 2018) It Will Be Chaos (2018, Documentary, 93 min.) In Italian, English, Arabic, and Tigrinya with English subtitles Directed by Lorena Luciano and Filippo Piscopo Followed by a Q&A with the directors, moderated by David Forgacs (NYU). Life in Southern Italy is thrown into a tailspin when refugees arrive by the thousands and the locals…

Film: The Return Across Borders

Scandinavia House 58 Park Avenue, New York City, NY, United States

In this docu-fictional film, two Danish-Korean adoptees, Karoline and Thomas, separately return to the country they were born in to seek out answers about their birth parents, where they meet at a guesthouse for returning Koreans. As they each embark on their own personal quests for answers, they also begin seeking out the personal stories of fellow adoptees who they…

Film: Speak Up (Ouvrir la voix) – Screening & Discussion with Amandine Gay

La Maison Française (NYU) 16 Washington Mews, New York City, NY, United States

With director Amandine Gay in conversation with art historian Sandrine Colard (African Art History, Rutgers), and poet/scholar Sylvie Kandé as respondent. African and African Diaspora writers and artists have met the 21st century with unprecedented new images and visions of Africa and the world. From Lagos, Johannesburg and Dakar to Paris, New York, London, or Berlin, writers and artists of African descent are mobilizing the resources…

Film: Forbidden Games (Jeux interdits)

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

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.