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1938 – Diversi

Calandra Italian American Institute at CUNY 25 W 43rd St #17, New York, NY, United States

Film screening and discussion with Giorgio Treves (filmmaker), Ernest Ialongo (Hostos Community College, CUNY) and Nina Valbousquet (Fordham University) 1938 – Diversi (2018), By Giorgio Treves Produced by Tangram Film/Roberto Levi and Carolina Levi, in collaboration with Sky Arte, Piemonte Film Fund, MiBACT, AB Groupe e AAMOD “Fascism can still return under the most innocent appearance. Our duty is to unmask…

Winter Flies: Window to Europe Film Series

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

Two mischievous adolescent boys embark on a journey of imaginative misadventure and coming-of-age self-discovery, in Olmo Omerzu's road-trip comedy celebrating the need to indulge the innocence, impulsiveness, and irrepressibility of youth. On a bright, wintry day, cherubic and ingenuous Heduš (Jan František Uher) catches doe-eyed friend Mára (Tomáš Mrvík) and his stolen car in his BB gun’s crosshairs. He spontaneously…

Toscanini Against Fascism

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

A Conversation with the Minds Behind "Maestro" This event is part of Giorno della Memoria under the auspices of the Consulate General of Italy and in collaboration with Centro Primo Levi. Additional information available at www.primolevicenter.org. On the occasion of the Off-Broadway run of Ensemble for the Romantic Century's theatrical concert Maestro, starring John Noble as Arturo Toscanini. Running January…

Film Screening & Discussion. The Leading Role (U.S. Premier)

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

Please join the Ukrainian Film Club at Columbia University for the New York premier of The Leading Role (2016) directed by Serhiy Bukovsky. Professor Yuri Shevchuk will introduce the film and mediate the discussion. Russian language with English subtitles. In his latest feature documentary, Serhiy Bukovsky, paragon of Ukrainian documentary filmmaking, pays tribute to his mother and actress Nina Antonova. A natural…

Redemption Blues

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

(Peter Stastny, 2017) This event is part of Giorno della Memoria under the auspices of the Consulate General of Italy and in collaboration with Centro Primo Levi. Additional information available at www.primolevicenter.org. Redemption Blues (2017, Documentary, 84 min.) Directed by Peter Stastny Produced by Peter Stastny, Lucia Schrenk, Roland Hablesreiter – Transmitter Film Followed by a discussion between director Peter Statsny and Paola…

On Michel Houellebecq’s Sérotonine

Albertine 972 5th Avenue, New York, NY, United States

Join author and Harper’s Magazine publisher John R. MacArthur, author and n+1 co-founder Marco Roth, and author Catherine Cusset for a riveting conversation on Michel Houellebecq’s new novel, Sérotonine (Flammarion). The conversation will be moderated by Adam Hocker. Sérotonine is a darkly humorous and deeply cynical novel about the loss of desire and the despair of contemporary society written in Houellebecq’s inimitable style. In English. Free and open…

Film: Ridicule

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

To RSVP, please click here. Set in late 18th-century France during the reign of Louis XVI, this comedy provides a fascinating glance into a time where a cruel rapier wit would take one further up the social ladder than gold, land, or birthright and where ridicule could drive a man to suicide.

Film: Margarethe Von Trotta’s Rosa Luxemburg

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

On the occasion of the 100th anniversary of the death of Rosa Luxemburg, we are hosting a film screening of Margarethe von Trotta’s film Rosa Luxemburg(1986). The film depicts the life story of this thinker and activist of the international left, portrayed in the film by the great actress Barbara Sukowa. Amidst the growing militarization that preceded World War I, Rosa…

Thugocracy: A Way to Think about Trump and Russia

Jordan Center for the Advanced Study of Russia 19 University Place, 2nd Floor, New York City, NY, United States

Please join us on Friday, February 1st  for “Thugocracy: A Way to Think about Trump and Russia”, a talk with Nancy Ries, Colgate University . This event is part of the Occasional Series, sponsored by the NYU Jordan Center for the Advanced Study of Russia. U.S. Special Counsel Robert Mueller’s indictments and other prosecutorial filings point to unprecedented and unusual interactions…

The Great Quintets

Ukrainian Institute of America 2 East 79th Street, New York, NY, United States

“The Great Quintets” will feature Solomiya Ivakhiv, Juliette Kang, violins; Daniel Panner, viola; Sophie Shao, Thomas Kraines, cellos; Rieko Aizawa, piano. Franz Schubert String Quintet in C Major D. 956 Op. posth. 163. Johannes Brahms Piano Quintet in F Minor, Op.34. General Admission $25 Seniors and Students $10 UIA Members free.

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