Haiku on a Plum Tree

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

Haiku on a Plum Tree (2017, Documentary, 73 min.) A film by Mujah Maraini-Melehi Followed by a Q&A with the director and author Dacia Maraini, in conversation with Stefano Albertini (NYU) and David Forgacs (NYU). Tokyo 1943: Italian anthropologist Fosco Maraini and painter Topazia Alliata refused to sign allegiance to Mussolini. They were imprisoned with their three daughters, Dacia, Yuki…

Czech Women Filmmakers in New York

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

A screening of award-winning short films made by three brilliant Czech women filmmakers living in New York City: Marie Dvoráková, Bára Jíchová Tyson and Zuzka Kurtz. The screening will be followed by a Q&A with the filmmakers. Limited seating. RSVP recommended. Suggested donation $5.00 MARIE DVORÁKOVÁ , director and writer, born in Jablonec nad Nisou, is a graduate of the…

Casi Desnudo: Film Screening and Book Presentation

Ukrainian Institute of America 2 East 79th Street, New York, NY, United States

The screening of Oleksandr Fraze-Frazenko’s Casi Desnudo, a film about the Ukrainian-American avant-garde writer Yuriy Tarnawsky, will be followed by Mr. Tarnawsky’s reading from his newly-released books (Warm Arctic Nights, The Iguanas of Heat, Literary Yoga). He will be introduced by Prof. Maria Grazia Bartolini from University of Milan. * * * Yuriy Tarnawsky is a bilingual Ukrainian/English author of some three…

$15

The Last Family

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

Beksiński is a gentle man with arachnophobia, despite his hardcore sexual fantasies and his fondness for painting disturbing dystopian works. Beksiński is a family man who wants only the best for his loving wife Zofia, neurotic son Tomasz and the couple’s aging mothers. His daily painting to classical music eventually pays off and he makes a name for himself in…

Film Screening & Discussion. An Unprecedented Campaign

Deutsches Haus Columbia 420 West 116th Street, New York City, NY, United States

Please join the Ukrainian Film Club at Columbia University for a screening of director Mikhail Kaufman's An Unprecedented Campaign (1931), followed by a discussion moderated by Professor Yuri Shevchuk. The film will be shown with English subtitles. An Unprecedented Campaign is the prominent avant-garde Soviet filmmaker Mikhail Kaufman's rare cinematographic documentation of Stalin's murderous campaign aimed at destroying Ukrainian peasantry. The film is about the 25,000 workers…

Ukrainian Contemporary Animation

Ukrainian Institute of America 2 East 79th Street, New York, NY, United States

The Ukrainian Institute of America in collaboration with LINOLEUM Animation Festival presents a compilation of Ukrainian Contemporary Animation from the most renowned authors. These films produced in 2013-2018 made strong steps towards the rebirth of the animation art as well as represented Ukraine at the international level. This program features eight Ukrainian films in different styles created during the last five years…

$15

Film: I Am Not Your Negro

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

Raoul Peck, 2017, 93 minutes To RSVP, please click here. Haitian filmmaker Raoul Peck's brilliant documentary on racism in America is an essential work for our era, drawing a clear line from the Civil Rights struggle to today's Black Lives Matter movement via the thought of James Baldwin, one of the most lucid, fearless American thinkers on race (and many other matters).…

Iuventa / Jululu

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

with director Michele Cinque Coinciding with the director's presence at the Italian Cultural Institute on March 26, presenting his film Sicily Jass. Screening Iuventa (2018, Documentary, 86 min.) In English, German, Italian with English subtitles Directed by Michele Cinque Preceded by the screening of Michele Cinque's short documentary film Jululu (2017, 15 min.). Introduced by David Forgacs (NYU) Followed by…

Film: Plastic Planet

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

Join us for our monthly film evening. Venturing on a journey around the globe - from the Moroccan Sahara to the highest peaks of the Alps, Plastic Planet investigates the far-flung reach of plastic in modern society. This film screening is part of the project Wunderbar: A Celebration of German Film. From Beloved Sisters to A Coffee in Berlin and Young Goethe in Love, from The Blue Angel to The Cabinet of…

Film: The Workshop (L’Atelier)

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

Robin Camillo, Laurent Cantet, 2017, 113 min. To RSVP, please click here. In The Workshop, acclaimed writer-director Laurent Cantet takes an illuminating approach to a variety of key issues haunting contemporary France. Olivia, a successful Parisian novelist, has been hired to spend the summer in La Ciotat, a beautiful but economically battered town on the Mediterranean, teaching a writing workshop for a diverse…