Le Conversazioni 2019

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

With Antonio Monda Antonio Monda (NYU) announces the theme of the 2019 edition of Le Conversazioni. Followed by a screening of the documentary Happiness directed by Francesco Zippel about the previous edition (2018) with Ian Buruma, Dave Eggers, David Mamet, Helen Oyeyemi, Benjamin Taylor, and Vendela Vida. Le Conversazioni is the international festival created by Antonio Monda and Davide Azzolini that takes place annually on…

CZE vs SWE IIHF World Championship – public screening

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

Czech fans welcome! Come and see our skaters in the live transmission at Bohemian National Hall. From the Bohemian National Hall. 

New York Premiere of Fugue

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

directed by Agnieszka Smoczynska as a part of Panorama Europe festival Panorama Europe 2019, the essential festival of new and vital European cinema, co-presented by Museum of the Moving Image (MoMI) and the members of European Union National Institutes for Culture (EUNIC) will include screenig of a Polish film, Fugue, directed by Agnieszka Smoczynska. Her debut film, The Lure, a…

Film: Talks with TGM

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

Talks with TGM (2018). Director: Jakub Červenka, runtime: 80 min, In Czech with English subtitles. A special screening as a tribute to Tomáš Garrigue Masaryk. The film will be followed by a discussion with Masaryk's great-granddaughter Charlotta Kotik and Dagmar Hájková, a researcher from the Masaryk Institute and Archives of the Czech Academy of Sciences. Synopsis: On 26 September 1928,…

Film: “Erde” (“Earth”), part of the CALA Fall 2019 film series “Fragile Earth: Environmental Films Around the World”

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

As part of the CALA Fall 2019 film series "Fragile Earth: Environmental Films Around the World,” the NYU Center for Applied Liberal Arts and Deutsches Haus at NYU present a screening of the documentary film "Erde" ("Earth"), 2019, directed by Nikolaus Geyrhalter. The introduction will be held by Nandini Thiyagarajan. About the film: Several billion tons of earth are moved annually by humans - with…

“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…