Rupert Everett narrates this harrowing documentary about the persecution of homosexuals by the Nazis based on an obscure paragraph in Germany’s penal code dating back to 1871. Dir. Robert Epstein/Jeffrey Friedman 2000, 81 min. From GOETHE-INSTITUT NEW YORK
Live score and film screening of the silent classic East and West (1923) featuring the composer of the original score for the 1991 remastered film, Pete Sokolow, and musician Michael Winograd (Sandaraa), celebrating the 121st birthday of Molly Picon. Ticket Info: $15 general; $10 AJHS/CJH/YIVO members, seniors, students at bpt.me/3739449 or 800-838-3006; $18 at the door.
Haiku on a Plum Tree (2017, Documentary, 73 min.) A film by Mujah Maraini-Melehi Followed by a Q&A with the director and author Dacia Maraini, in conversation with Stefano Albertini (NYU) and David Forgacs (NYU). Tokyo 1943: Italian anthropologist Fosco Maraini and painter Topazia Alliata refused to sign allegiance to Mussolini. They were imprisoned with their three daughters, Dacia, Yuki…
A screening of award-winning short films made by three brilliant Czech women filmmakers living in New York City: Marie Dvoráková, Bára Jíchová Tyson and Zuzka Kurtz. The screening will be followed by a Q&A with the filmmakers. Limited seating. RSVP recommended. Suggested donation $5.00 MARIE DVORÁKOVÁ , director and writer, born in Jablonec nad Nisou, is a graduate of the…
The screening of Oleksandr Fraze-Frazenko’s Casi Desnudo, a film about the Ukrainian-American avant-garde writer Yuriy Tarnawsky, will be followed by Mr. Tarnawsky’s reading from his newly-released books (Warm Arctic Nights, The Iguanas of Heat, Literary Yoga). He will be introduced by Prof. Maria Grazia Bartolini from University of Milan. * * * Yuriy Tarnawsky is a bilingual Ukrainian/English author of some three…
Beksiński is a gentle man with arachnophobia, despite his hardcore sexual fantasies and his fondness for painting disturbing dystopian works. Beksiński is a family man who wants only the best for his loving wife Zofia, neurotic son Tomasz and the couple’s aging mothers. His daily painting to classical music eventually pays off and he makes a name for himself in…
Please join the Ukrainian Film Club at Columbia University for a screening of director Mikhail Kaufman's An Unprecedented Campaign (1931), followed by a discussion moderated by Professor Yuri Shevchuk. The film will be shown with English subtitles. An Unprecedented Campaign is the prominent avant-garde Soviet filmmaker Mikhail Kaufman's rare cinematographic documentation of Stalin's murderous campaign aimed at destroying Ukrainian peasantry. The film is about the 25,000 workers…
The Ukrainian Institute of America in collaboration with LINOLEUM Animation Festival presents a compilation of Ukrainian Contemporary Animation from the most renowned authors. These films produced in 2013-2018 made strong steps towards the rebirth of the animation art as well as represented Ukraine at the international level. This program features eight Ukrainian films in different styles created during the last five years…
Raoul Peck, 2017, 93 minutes To RSVP, please click here. Haitian filmmaker Raoul Peck's brilliant documentary on racism in America is an essential work for our era, drawing a clear line from the Civil Rights struggle to today's Black Lives Matter movement via the thought of James Baldwin, one of the most lucid, fearless American thinkers on race (and many other matters).…
with director Michele Cinque Coinciding with the director's presence at the Italian Cultural Institute on March 26, presenting his film Sicily Jass. Screening Iuventa (2018, Documentary, 86 min.) In English, German, Italian with English subtitles Directed by Michele Cinque Preceded by the screening of Michele Cinque's short documentary film Jululu (2017, 15 min.). Introduced by David Forgacs (NYU) Followed by…