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“Ethiopiques–Revolt of the Soul” by Maciek Bochniak, US Premiere

American Museum of Natural History Central Park West and 79th Street, New York, NY, United States

Followed by a Q&A with the director Tickets: $12 The Margaret Mead Film Festival, the longest-running premiere showcase for international documentaries in the United States, is held at the American Museum of Natural History in New York. This year's festival reflects stories of resilience–portraits of strength and action by people who are rising up, breaking new ground, and pushing their…

“Runners” by Lukasz Borowski, US Premiere

American Museum of Natural History Central Park West and 79th Street, New York, NY, United States

Followed by a Q&A with the director Tickets: $12 The Margaret Mead Film Festival, the longest-running premiere showcase for international documentaries in the United States, is held at the American Museum of Natural History in New York. This year's festival reflects stories of resilience–portraits of strength and action by people who are rising up, breaking new ground, and pushing their…

Russia: Stranger than Fiction

Barnard College 3009 Broadway, New York, NY, New York City, NY, United States

Please join the Harriman Institute and the Barnard Slavic Department for a conversation with Yelena Yakovich, documentary film director, and Marina Adamovich, editor-in-chief of The New Review, following the Russian Documentary Film Festival in New York, October 19–21, 2018. RSVP required for non-Barnard attendees; email barnardslavic@gmail.com. Yelena Yakovich and Marina Adamovic will converse about politics, the arts, and history in Russia and its neighboring countries where real…

Film: Checks and Balances (Contrepouvoirs)

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

To RSVP, please click here. Screening and discussion with filmmaker Malek Bensmaïl, in conversation with Madeleine Dobie and Mohamed Amer Meziane. Algerian documentary filmmaker Malek Bens­maïl set up his camera in the news­room of the famous daily paper El Watan, the spea­rhead of the Alge­rian inde­pendent press, to film the proce­dures and thought processes behind jour­na­lism during the last presi­den­tial elec­tion. Accom­mo­da­ted…

The Battle of Algiers: A Film Within History

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

To RSVP, please click here. Screening and discussion with filmmaker Malek Bensmaïl, in conversation with Madeleine Dobie and Etienne Balibar. With excep­tio­nal archival mate­rials and many inter­views (Alge­ria, France, Italy, United-States) Malek Bensmaïl’s docu­men­tary about Gillo Pontecorvo’s legendary 1965 film, The Battle of Algiers, will give us, sixty years after, a strong look back at this film half­way between history and legend.…

Film: The Silence

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

Join us for our monthly film evening. 13 year-old Sinikka vanishes on a hot summer night. Her bicycle is found in the exact place where a girl was killed 23 years ago, forcing those involved in the original case to face their past. Based on the crime novel The Silence by Jan Costin Wagner and directed by Baran bo Odar (Dark, 2017).…

La terra buona [The Good Place]

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

Emanuele Caruso, 2018 La terra buona (The Good Place) (Italy, 2018, 110 min.) In ITALIAN with ENGLISH subtitles Directed by Emanuele Caruso Written by Emanuele Caruso and Marco Domenicale Starring Lorenzo Pedrotti, Fabrizio Ferracane, Viola Sartoretto, Cristian Di Sante Followed by a Q&A with director Emanuele Caruso The film is inspired by true events. The largest wilderness zone in Europe…

The American Letters

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

A biopic that offers an intimate insight into the family life of Antonin Dvorak who wrote his Cello Concerto while in New York City. The third movement was a tribute to his sister-in-law, Josefína, who had written him a letter saying she was seriously ill. Director: Jaroslav Brabec, 2015, 102 min, Czech Republic. In Czech with English subtitles. Free and…

Mediterranea

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

Jonas Carpignano (2015) This screening is part of the NYU SPS Center for Applied Liberal Arts Fall 2018 Film Series The Immigrant Experience: Visions of Diaspora on Film in America and Abroad. As immigration ignites new conversations in the U.S., it continues to be a divisive issue across the globe. This film series explores the experiences of people who leave…

Film Screening of Ruth Kaaserer’s “Gwendolyn”

Anthology Film Archives 32 Second Avenue (at 2nd Street), New York, United States

Screening details This event will recur Every Day until Nov. 8, 2018. Ruth Kaaserer is the recipient of the 2017 Erste Bank's ExtraVALUE Film Award, which she received for Gwendolyn at the 2017 Viennale. On the occasion of her residency at Deutsches Haus at NYU, Deutsches Haus co-presents together with Anthology Film Archives, Erste Bank, and the Austrian Cultural Forum two screenings of Gwendolyn (2017), on Wednesday, November 7,…