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Film Screening & Discussion. Stories from the Chestnut Woods

Museum of the Moving Image 36-01 35th Avenue, Astoria, New York

Please join the Museum of the Moving Image and the Harriman Institute for the U.S. premiere of the 2019 film Stories from the Chestnut Woods, with director Gregor Božič in person. This event is part of the First Look 2020 festival. Tickets available on the Museum of the Moving Image website. Film runtime: 81 minutes. In Slovene and Italian with English subtitles. Dir. Gregor Božič. Italy, Slovenia,…

$15

Film Screening. Comets

Museum of the Moving Image 36-01 35th Avenue, Astoria, New York

Please join the Museum of the Moving Image and the Harriman Institute for the U.S. premiere of the 2019 Georgian film Comets, directed by Tamar Shavgulidze. This event is part of the First Look 2020 festival. Tickets available on the Museum of the Moving Image website. Film runtime: 71 minutes. In Georgian with English subtitles. Dir. Tamar Shavgulidze. Georgia. With Nino Kasradze, Ketevan…

$15

Stories of New York: City College Cinema and Sanctuary

Center for Jewish History 15 W. 16th Street, New York City, NY, United States

This February and March, join historians, writers, filmmakers, and alumni at the Center for Jewish History for a series of discussions and films about City College, its rich Jewish history, and its transformative role in the lives of so many. Part III: Cinema and Sanctuary It was the first documentary film school in the United States and it began in…

$15

Film Screening & Discussion. Men Don’t Cry

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

Please join the Harriman Institute and the Bosnian-Herzegovinian Film Festival (BHFF) for a screening of the 2017 film Men Don't Cry (Muskarci ne plaču). The screening will be followed by a discussion with the film's director Alen Drljević, film scholar Dijana Jelača, and Columbia professor Tanya Domi. Bosnian language with English subtitles. Film runtime: 98 minutes. Twenty years after the conclusion of the Bosnian War, a…

Film Screening. The Lost Petition

Deutsches Haus Columbia 420 West 116th Street, New York City, NY, United States

Please join the Ukrainian Film Club at Columbia University for a screening of the little-known Ukrainian film classic The Lost Petition (1972), directed by Borys Ivchenko. The film is in Ukrainian with English subtitles. Professor Yuri Shevchuk will introduce the film and moderate the discussion. Inspired by a Mykola Hohol (a.k.a. Nikolai Gogol) short story, this heroic comedy takes place in 18th…

Tribute to Ivan Passer: A Boring Afternoon & Intimate Lighting

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

Screening of two films by the recently deceased Czech-American film director Ivan Passer, a leading figure of the Czech new wave and a close friend and collaborator of the late Milos Forman. The film anecdote "A Boring Afternoon" (1964, running time 14 min), based on a story by Czech writer Bohumil Hrabal, captures an ordinary, dull Sunday afternoon in a…

Jochen Hick “Talk Straight: The World of Rural Queers”

This film series is part of Queer as German Folk, a project celebrating the intersectional histories of Germany’s and America’s diverse LGBTIQ+ communities. A digitally modified version of the exhibition Queer as German Folk and a full program of virtual events is presented by the Goethe-Institut in North America in collaboration with its Goethe Pop Ups and the Schwules Museum Berlin (SMU). The film will be available to stream from…

Rosa von Praunheim “I am my own woman”

This film is part of Queer as German Folk, a project celebrating the intersectional histories of Germany’s and America’s diverse LGBTIQ+ communities. A digitally modified version of the exhibition Queer as German Folk and a full program of virtual events is presented by the Goethe-Institut in North America in collaboration with its Goethe Pop Ups and the Schwules Museum Berlin (SMU). The film will be available to stream from September…

Yony Leyser “Queercore: How to Punk a Revolution”

This film series is part of Queer as German Folk, a project celebrating the intersectional histories of Germany’s and America’s diverse LGBTIQ+ communities. A digitally modified version of the exhibition Queer as German Folk and a full program of virtual events is presented by the Goethe-Institut in North America in collaboration with its Goethe Pop Ups and the Schwules Museum Berlin (SMU). The film will be available to stream from…

Sephardic Culinary History with Chef Hélène Jawhara-Piñer

Episode 2: Special Sukkot Edition "Beans and Chicken" and "Brown Nougat" Sephardi Culinary History is a new show that combines chef and scholar Hélène Jawhara-Piñer’s fascination with food studies and flair for creating delicious cuisine. Join along as she cooks Sephardic history! ASF Broome & Allen Fellow Hélène Jawhara-Piñer earned her Ph.D in History, Medieval History, and the History of Food from the…