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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
Directed by Jakov & Dominik Sedlar and Pravednica Ciganka, this 2016 short film tells the story of the only Gypsy woman honored by Israel as a "Righteous amongst the Nations." Ticket Info: $10 general at bpt.me/4333932 or 800-838-3006
In this monumental mid-19th century epic by Jan Troell, based on the first two books of Swedish novelist Vilhelm Moberg’s Upon a Good Land, Liv Ullmann and Max von Sydown star as Kristina and Kar Oskar Nilsson, a Swedish couple whose plans to move to America with their family are challenged by physical and emotional trials at every step. Over…
To RSVP, please click here. Les Maîtres fous is an “ethnofiction” made in 1955 by French ethnologist and filmmaker Jean Rouch, about ritual practices associated with trance and possession among the Haukas in Niger. After the screening, Serge Margel will discuss the film and draw links between the theme of possession and colonialism, and explore articulations between trance and cinema, which…
From the Spanish Civil War to a counterculture guru of the sixties, electronic music composer, artist, and writer Ramón Sender Barayón was born in Madrid in 1934. His father was Ramón J. Sender, one of the most renowned Spanish writers of the twentieth century and his mother, Amparo Barayón, was a woman ahead of her time. The Spanish civil war…