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“Hotel Auschwitz”: Film Screening and Conversation

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

NYU’s Center for European and Mediterranean Studies and Deutsches Haus at NYUpresent a screening of the film Hotel Auschwitz (2018). The screening will be followed by a conversation about the many questions this thought-provoking film raises. The participants will be the film’s director, Cornelius Schwalm; the film’s co-producer Katharina Bellena; the actor Patrick von Blume; and Christian Martin, the current Max Weber…

Film: Sheer Madness

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

Director Margarethe von Trotta weaves a wondrously compelling tale of friendship and feminism around the relationship of two seemingly opposite women. Olga is a professor of women’s literature, while Ruth is a gifted and extremely reticent artist who is desperately fearful of the outside world. From their first meeting, they share a warmth and understanding whose intensity “can be only…

Irish Screen America: Oct. 25-27th

Cantor Film Center NYU 36 East 8th Street, New York City, NY, United States

Irish Screen America presents its annual film festival, bringing the very best in contemporary Irish cinema to New York. The three-day series will showcase critically acclaimed films and will host a selection of filmmaker Q&A’s, industry panel discussions, and receptions. Read more about Irish Screen America NYC

Film: Sometimes in April

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

To RSVP, please click here.  Raoul Peck (I Am Not Your Negro) offers a soul-shaking account of the Rwandan genocide as seen through the eyes of a Hutu man fighting to save his Tutsi wife and children as the unstoppable tide of violence encroaches. Steadfastly refusing to sentimentalize or sugarcoat any aspects of the story, Peck dares us to look away, making…

Film: The Burning Child Screening and Discussion with Joseph Leo Koerner

Department of Cinema Studies 721 Broadway, Room 674, New York, United States

Haunted by his father's portrait of his grandparents who vanished in the Holocaust, Joseph Koerner returns to Vienna to solve their mystery. Completed eighty years after the Anschluss, The Burning Child (2019, 113 min.) is a moving, visually-stunning journey through Vienna's urban and psychic interior to a buried past, where dreams of home became, for a city's most ardent homemaker's, an unimaginable…

Film Screening & Discussion. The Saragossa Manuscript

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

Join the East Central European Center at the Harriman Institute for the first installment of the ECEC Fall Film Series, a screening of the 1965 Polish film The Saragossa Manuscript, directed by Wojciech Has and digitally restored in 2001. Wojciech Has's psychedelic '60s costume drama The Saragossa Manuscript features veteran actor and cabaret artist Zbigniew Cybulski (the Polish James Dean) in what was…

Two Flags – Film Screening and Discussion with Director

Avery Fisher Center for Music and Media, Elmer Holmes Bobst Library, 7th Floor Elmer Holmes Bobst Library, 70 Washington Square South New York, New York, United States

Two Flags 2019, 60 mins. Director: Pankaj Rishi Kumar In English and French with subtitles in English Two Flags chronicles the life and politics of Pondicherry, a former French colony in South India where 6,000 Tamils who identify as French gear up for the French presidential elections of 2017. The film explores the idea of state, citizenship and home in…

After Hitler: The Untold Story

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

Featuring Olivier Wieviorka, ENS Paris-Saclay, documentary co-director.   After Hitler: the Untold Story (2016, 90 min), directed by Olivier Wieviorka and David Korn-Brzoza. Documentary film screening and discussion with historian and co-director Olivier Wieviorka about the role of the historian in creating documentary films.

After Hitler: the Untold Story

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

To RSVP, please click here. Documentary film screening and discussion with historian and co-director Olivier Wieviorka about the role of the historian in creating documentary films. In the five years that separated the end of the Second World War from the start of the Cold War, the world had hoped for a lasting peace, but instead found itself on the brink of…

Film Screening: The Ornament of the World

King Juan Carlos I of Spain Center 53 Washington Square South, New York, United States

The Ornament of the World tells the story of a remarkable time in history when the Muslims, Christians and Jews forged a common cultural identity that frequently transcended their religious differences. Ornament will retrace a nearly 800-year period in medieval Spain, from the 8th through 15th centuries, during which the three cultures, though they competed and sometimes fought, managed to…