Please join the Harriman Institute and the Russian Film Club for a screening of the 2017 film Closeness, directed by Kantemir Balagov. This event is part of the Russian Cinema Between Protests Film Series, organized by Mark Lipovetsky (Slavic Department) and Daria Ezerova (Harriman Institute). The film has a run time of 118 minutes and will be presented with English subtitles. A film of arresting beauty, Closeness is the story of…
A French actress filming an anti-war film in Hiroshima has an affair with a married Japanese architect as they share their differing perspectives on war. A classic black-and-white story of love, war, suffering and forgetfulness, which was sweated out of an affair between a French actress (Emmanuelle Riva) and a married Japanese architect (Eiji Okada) in the titular bomb-ravaged city.
FRI—March 13—7 PM $12 ($7 ASF Members) Series Pass $84 ($49 ASF Members) 106 minutes. In Finnish and Farsi with English subtitles. Purchase Tickets Purchase Series Pass Hard-partying Aurora dreams of escaping her rote life in Finnish Lapland for Norway, working as a nail technician while couch-crashing with a friend to save money. Meanwhile, Iranian refugee Darian is hoping to…
Please join the Museum of the Moving Image and the Harriman Institute for the U.S. premiere of the 2019 film Bird Talk(Mowa ptaków), with director Xawery Żuławski and DP Andrzej J. Jaroszewicz in person. This event is part of the First Look 2020 festival. Tickets available on the Museum of the Moving Image website. Film runtime: 138 minutes. In Polish with English subtitles. Dir. Xawery Żuławski. DCP. With Sebastian Fabijański,…
sci-fi cult epic On the Silver Globe directed by Andrzej Zulawski followed by the masterclass with a cinematographer Andrzej J. Jaroszewicz and US Premiere of Bird Talk (Mowa ptaków) directed by Xavery Zulawski (in person), screenplay by Andrzej Zulawski, cinematography by Andrzej J. Jaroszewicz (in person) as part of First Look 2020 Festival Bird Talk – March 13th, 8PM On…
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,…
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…
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…
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…
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…