Loosely based on the journalist and writer Chawki Amari’s travelog Nationale 1, Hassan Ferhani’s film creates such intimacy that we feel we are sitting next to the proprietor. Through Malika's exchanges with her customers, portrait of a woman, a landscape, and even a country emerges. One hundred virtual seats available.
Deutsches Haus at NYU and the Consulate General of Switzerland in New York present a conversation between writer and translator Susan Bernofsky and poet and writer Eileen Myles about Bernofsky's “Clairvoyant of the Small: The Life of Robert Walser,“ the first English-language biography of Swiss author Robert Walser. In their conversation, Myles and Bernofsky will reflect on Walser's intriguing work and life, problems of…
Chantal Thomas is a novelist, screenwriter and essayist. Farewell to the Queen was her first great success for which she won the Femina Prize in 2002. She is an 18th century specialist, notably Sade and Casanova. She has just been elected to the French Academy. She will talk about her last three books: East Village Blues (Seuil 2019), Café Vivre (Seuil 2020) and De Sable et de neige (Mercure de France…