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Traveling with Adele (In viaggio con Adele)

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

N.I.C.E. Film Festival New Italian Cinema Events (N.I.C.E.) Film Festival celebrates its 29th edition in the United States. In viaggio con Adele (2018, Italy, 83 min.) In ITALIAN with ENGLISH subtitles Directed by Alessandro Capitani Starring Alessandro Haber, Sara Serraiocco, Isabella Ferrari Adele, a young girl who suffers from a mental disorder, has never met her father and has always lived under…

The New Land /Nybyggarna Liv Ullmann: A Celebration

Scandinavia House 58 Park Avenue, New York City, NY, United States

FRI—November 22—6:30 PM $12 ($7 ASF Members) 202 min. In Swedish with English subtitles. In this epic sequel to the 1971 film The Emigrants, Karl-Oskar (Max von Sydow) and his wife Kristina (Liv Ullmann), having journeyed to America from Sweden, are now living in the wilderness of Minnesota. While building a farmhouse and clearing and farming their land, they must…

UNSOUND NEW YORK 2019

St. Peter's Church 346 W. 20th St., New York, NY, United States

KSIEZYC at 8 p.m. St. Peter’s Church in Chelsea. 346 W 20th St, New York, NY 10011 FREE Polish Cultural Institute New York is delighted to invite you again to the U.S. edition an adventurous music festival from Poland. Since 2010 we have been engaged in festival innovative programming that features an immersive aural and visual experience led by electronic…

Scenes From A Marriage /Scener ur ett äktenskap Liv Ullmann: A Celebration

Scandinavia House 58 Park Avenue, New York City, NY, United States

SAT—November 23—2 PM $12 ($7 ASF Members) 169 min. In Swedish with English Subtitles. In one of Ingmar Bergman’s most lauded and approachable works, Scenes From A Marriage explores the disintegration of the marriage between Marianne (Liv Ullmann), a family lawyer specializing in divorce, and Johan (Erland Josephson), spanning a period of 10 years. Despite seeming to have it all, Marianne…

“One of the Greatest Untold Stories of WWII”: A Decade-Long Quest after my Father and a Quarter Million other Holocaust Refugees

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

It is a largely unknown and astonishing fact that most Polish Jews who escaped Nazi extermination survived as refugees in Uzbekistan, Kazakhstan, Iran and India. Mikhal Dekel, whose then 13-year-old father was such a refugee, will share her archival research and global travel to retrace their 13,000 mile route. Dekel tells a story at once intimate and historically sweeping, conversing…

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The Seine, the River that Made Paris

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

To RSVP, please click here. Elaine Sciolino’s new book explores the history and mythology, the romantic and the everyday life of the magical Seine river that runs through the heart of Paris. In the spring of 1978, as a young journalist in Paris, Elaine Sciolino was seduced by a river. In The Seine, she tells the story of that river through its rich…

On Finding and Fabricating: Memory and Family History in Katja Petrowskaja’s “Maybe Esther”

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

Deutsches Haus at NYU presents a talk by DAAD Visiting Scholar Susanne Rohr about the desire for continuity, identity, and belonging in one’s own family history and her interpretation of Katja Petrowskaja’s collection of stories, Maybe Esther. About the event: A topic that is being broadly discussed in contemporary German and U.S.-American literature is a desire for continuity, identity, and…

41° Parallelo

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

Short Films from the Naples Film Festival In collaboration with the Naples Film Festival. The following films were selected specifically for Casa Italiana by a special jury made up of students of the NYU Department of Italian Studies: Ciruzziello by Ciro D'Aniello La Gita by Salvatore Allocca Alma by Michelangelo Fornaro La scelta by Giuseppe Alessio Nuzzo Scenario by Jay…

A Woman’s Perspective: An Evening with Zuzana Justman

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

Mon, November 25, 2019 at 7:00 pm at Bohemian National Hal,cinema 321 E 73 St, New York City The Czech-American Emmy Award-winning filmmaker and writer will discuss three of her major films Voices of the Children (1996), A Trial in Prague (2000), and Czech Women: Now We Are Free (1993) Moderated by Helena Fisera and Christopher Harwood Limited seating! RSVP:…

On the Shoulders of Giants: Rabelaisian Authorial Avatars in the Age of Print – Virginia Krause

La Maison Française (NYU) 16 Washington Mews, New York City, NY, United States

The point of departure for this talk is the controversial hypothesis that Les Œuvres de Louise Labé was not the work of a woman author, but rather a literary hoax by a group of male poets. Rather than weighing in on this on-going polemic, however, Krause asks to what extent the conditions underlying the Labé hypothesis apply more generally to…