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Film Screening & Discussion. Hunger for Truth: The Rhea Clyman Story

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 the film Hunger for Truth (2017), directed by Andrew Tkach. Professor Yuri Shevchukwill introduce the film and mediate the discussion. Hunger for Truth tells the story of Rhea Clyman, a brave Canadian reporter who uncovered a “crime of the century”— Stalin’s genocidal famine in Ukraine of 1932-33, also known as the…

Film: From Jim Crow to Swastika

Center for Jewish History 15 W. 16th Street, New York City, NY, United States

General: $10 ($7 for seniors) The recent uptick in antisemitic, anti-immigrant, and racist rhetoric have created a burst of new interest in the acclaimed documentary, From Swastika to Jim Crow. Based on the book by Gabrielle Simon Edgcomb, the film tells the little-known story of two very different cultures, sharing a common burden of oppression. In the 1930s, German universities were…

Film screening: The Distant Barking of Dogs

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

Director: Simon Lereng Wilmont, 2017, 90 min, Denmark/Sweden/Finland. "The Distant Barking of Dogs" is set in Eastern Ukraine on the frontline of the war. The film follows the life of 10-year-old Ukrainian boy Oleg throughout a year, witnessing the gradual erosion of his innocence beneath the pressures of war. Oleg lives with his beloved grandmother, Alexandra, in the small village…

Film: Makala

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

Emmanuel Gras, 2018, 96 min. To RSVP, please click here. Makala is an extraordinarily revealing and surprisingly gorgeous look at everyday life for a charcoal salesman in the Democratic Republic of Congo. French documentary filmmaker Emmanuel Gras follows 28-year-old Kabwita Kasongo through the entire process of making and selling charcoal: finding and cutting down a tree in the vast plains near his village…

Film: Me and Kominski

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

"You are famous. You wanted to be. Being famous means having someone like me." - Sebastian Zöllner Germany just before the turn of the millenium. Sebastian Zöllner (Daniel Brühl), art journalist and master of overconfidence, plans his big coup: a tell-all book about the legendary but nearly forgotten painter Manel Kaminski (Jesper Christensen), student of Matisse and friend of Picasso,…

Film: “Emilie Kempin-Spyri”: Film Screening and Talk by Rahel Grunder

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

Deutsches Haus at NYU, in partnership with the Consulate General of Switzerland New York and SALA (Swiss American Lawyers Association), presents a screening of the Swiss documentary Emilie Kempin-Spyri. Rahel Grunder, the film's director, will be present and speak about her film and the life of Emilie Kempin-Spyri. About the film: Emilie Kempin-Spyri. Written and directed by Rahel Grunder. Switzerland, 2015, 52. min, in German with…

Film: 3 Days In Quiberon

Museum of the Moving Image 36-01 35th Avenue, Astoria, New York

Price: $15 general admission $11/$9 seniors, students/youth Followed by a conversation with lead actress Marie Bäumer As part of Panorama Europe 2019, the Goethe-Institut is pleased to present the New York premiere of Emily Atef’s film 3 Days in Quiberon. Actress Marie Bäumer accomplishes an amazing feat in Atef’s engrossing drama about an extensive interview that Romy Schneider gave while staying at…

Film: Romy Schneider in Le combat dans l’île

Museum of the Moving Image 36-01 35th Avenue, Astoria, New York

Price: $15 general admission $11/$9 seniors, students/youth As part of Panorama Europe 2019, the Museum of the Moving Image presents Alan Cavalier’s Le combat dans l'île as a sidebar screening to Emily Atef’s 3 Days in Quiberon. Romy Schneider is at her best as the wife of an industrialist and right-wing extremist played by Jean-Louis Trintignant, in this rarely screened…

Film: Mademoiselle Paradis

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

Panorama Europe 2019 Film Festival. Director: Barbara Albert, 2017, 97 min, Austria. A blind pianist living in Vienna in the 18th century forms an extraordinary relationship with the physician who is trying to restore her sight. Panorama Europe 2019, the eleventh edition of the essential festival of new and vital European cinema, co-presented by Museum of the Moving Image and…

Film: Limestone Cowboy

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

Panorama Europe 2019 Film Festival. Director: Abigail Mallia, 2017, 115 min, Malta. A human story of a family grappling with the discomforting notion of a delusional parent who believes he has what it takes to run for the Malta's Prime Minister. Panorama Europe 2019, the eleventh edition of the essential festival of new and vital European cinema, co-presented by Museum…