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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…

Film, performance: Karel Gott, Celebration of Life

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

Screening of a film from Karel Gott’s concert at Carnegie Hall and a performance by Czech swing singer Jan Smigmator, to honor the late pop singer Karel Gott , a romantic Czech crooner whose popularity behind the Iron Curtain helped earn him the nickname “Sinatra of the East.” Karel Gott (July 14, 1939 – October 1, 2019) won the Golden…

Film Screening. The Humorist

404 International Affairs Building 420 West 118th St, New York

Join the Harriman Institute and the Russian Film Club for a screening of the 2019 film The Humorist, directed by Mikhail Idov, who will introduce the film and hold a Q&A after the screening. This event is part of the Russian Cinema Between Protests Film Series, organized by Mark Lipovetsky (Slavic Department) and Daria Ezerova (Harriman Institute). The film has…

Miss Julie: Evening With Liv Ullmann

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

In celebration of Liv Ullmann, recipient of the 2019 ASF Gold Medal, Scandinavia House presents two special evenings with the acclaimed actress and director, followed by a retrospective of her roles and work with leading auteurs. At tonight’s event, Liv Ullmann returns to present and discuss her last cinematic project as a director, the 2014 film Miss Julie /Frøken Julie, based…

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Film: Czech Student Uprisings – 1960s and 1980s

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

A documentary exploring the role of students in Czechoslovakia during the twists and turns of history in the 1960s and 1980s. The two-part film, directed by the noted Olga Sommerova, compares the roles of students in the protest movements of the 1960s and 1980s in Communist Czechoslovakia, draws parallels between them, and sheds light on the less-researched chapters of these…

The Island of Roses

Los Corassones Avlan 148 W. 4th Street, New York City, NY, United States

Film screening and conversation: The Island of Roses, Tragedy in Paradise, by Rebecca Samonà. 2008/Italy, 56 min., documentary, in Italian with English subtitles Written and directed by Rebecca Samonà. Produced by L’Altravista and Rebecca Samonà. Post-screening conversation with Erminia and Gloria Licitri. Pregnant with her second child, Rebecca Samonà goes to the island of Rhodes to research family stories, accompanied by her mother…

Teaching and Thinking the Bauhaus after 1989: Angela Zumpe’s Time in Dessau

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

Deutsches Haus at NYU presents a screening of  Things to Come, a film project on László, Lucia, and Sibyl Moholy-Nagy by DAAD Visiting Scholar at Deutsches Haus at NYU Angela Zumpe. The screening will be followed by a talk about Angela Zumpe's latest book, I Am Taking the Ghosts with Me…, which focuses on her personal experience with the Bauhaus and reflects on…

An-Magritt Liv Ullmann: A Celebration

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

In this adaptation of the Norwegian trilogy Bread of Night by Johan Falkberget, the young An-Magritt has cultivated exceptional survival skills from a young age. Orphaned by her mother’s suicide following public humiliiation for an affair with a soldier — and raised only by her grandfather — she has grown up in a harsh environment dominated by men, teaching herself…

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