Film Screening & Discussion. Oscar

Marshall D. Shulman Seminar Room 420 W 118th Street, #1219 International Affairs Building, New York City, NY, United States

Join for a screening of the documentary film Oscar (2018), introduced by the directors Eugene Tsymbal and Aleksandr Smoljanskiand followed with a discussion moderated by Mark Lipovetsky and Daria Ezerova. Run time: 90 minutes This crowdfunded, award-winning project is the story of one of the most famous Russian artists, Oscar Rabin (1928-2018), who challenged the Soviet communist system and won. In 1974, he organized an open-air…

Film Screening & Discussion. Beshoot

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

Join the Ukrainian Film Club at Columbia University for the unofficial US premier of the 2019 military drama Beshoot, followed by a discussion with director Ivan Tymchenko and producer Svitlana Soloviova, moderated by Professor Yuri Shevchuk. The soldiers of the Donbas Volunteer Battalion are at the center of this war drama inspired by real-life events. Two Ukrainian fighters who volunteered to repel the…

The Cake General /Tårtgeneralen WAYWARD ENDEAVORS: COMEDIES FROM THE NORTH

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

Based on a true story, the directorial debut of popular Swedish personalities Filip and Fredrik is an outrageous, unconventional comedy set in the 1980s about an eccentric villager who decides to put his sleepy hamlet on the map by assembling the world’s longest layer cake. When in 1984 the small town of Koping is named “the most boring town in…

And Then We Danced Screening With Levan Akin

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

Director Levan Akin joins us to discuss his new film And Then We Danced, which has recently been selected as the Swedish entry for the Best International Feature Film at the 92nd Academy Awards. In this passionate tale of love and liberation set against the backdrop of Georgian traditional dance, ambitious young Merab has been training from an early age…

Who Will Write Our History

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

With a wealth of archival footage and detailed re-enactments, this film recounts the incredible story of Emanuel Ringelblum, who secretly led a team of writers and intellectuals to preserve a vibrant Jewish culture in the Warsaw Ghetto shortly after the Nazis took over. What resulted was a startlingly deep and diverse portrait of European Jewish life, as the Oyneg Shabes…

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Remembering November ’89

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

Screening of a Slovak documentary film “Spytaj sa vasich ’89” (Ask at Home ’89) that brings an insight into the lives of people in the former Czechoslovakia in the context of major social changes during the Velvet Revolution in November 1989. The screening is followed by an interactive Q&A with the director Barbora Bereznakova, engaging audience in the conversation through…

Citizen Sis: From Maršov to Leopoldov via Bulgaria

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

Tuesday, November 5, 2019 at 7 pm Bohemian National Hall, cinema 321 E 73 St, New York City FILM + DISCUSSION Screening of a 2019 documentary film about a Czech journalist and a hero of Bulgaria, Vladimír Sís (1889-1958) Vladimír Sís was a Czech patriot, journalist, and writer. At age 23, he sent his reports from the frontline of the…

Film Screening and Discussion: Leila and the Wolves (1984)

Hagop Kevorkian Center 255 Sullivan Street, New York City, NY, United States

Drawing on the Arab heritage of oral tradition and mosaic patterns, Leila and the Wolvesis an exploration of the collective historical memory of Arab women. Shot over seven years, and in often treacherous conditions, Srour’s film is a masterpiece of filmmaking, mixing together archival footage, fairy-tale storytelling, aesthetically bold imagery, and dramatizations of situations faced by women in Lebanon and…

The Condor & the Eagle

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

To RSVP, please click here. The Eagle & The Condor is an ancient prophecy, shared by many Indigenous people. The prophecy says when the Eagle of North America and the Condor of South America unite, the spirit of peace will awaken. After 500 years of colonization, some Indigenous elders believe that this union has begun. The Condor & The Eagle documentary by French…

Film: Bauhaus Spirit: 100 Years of Bauhaus

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

What does a Latin American favela have to do with an old workers’ settlement in Dessau? What is the connection between a Jewish socialist in a rural commune and the children in a school class in Stockholm? All of these stories concern visions and the practical attempts to make them come true. Nearly a hundred years ago, a radical artistic utopian…