Filmatique’s New Asian Voices II Series continues withSanjeewa Pushpakumara’s stark and poetic Burning Birds, a story of female fortitude against the extrajudicial political violence of Sri Lanka’s civil war. To watch our current releases click here. Membership required. FLMTQ membership is $4.95/month. First month free.
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“Unveil”, a short documentary by Joy Ernanny (Doc Studies’18) was shown in Brazil at Rio de Janeiro’s Jewish Cultural Center on December 10 for over 70 people. The film, about the first female-only beauty salon for Muslim women in New York, was received with a
As a thank you for your dedication to the next generation of women writers and leaders—and for being that next generation—Girls Write Now would like to offer you complimentary tickets to a screening of The Hate U Give, a film which resonates deeply with our community. Please enjoy this screening thanks to the vision of
This week there is a screening of Jorge Sanjinés‘ award-winning Bolivian gem The Secret Nation. The film, which won the Golden Seashell for Best Film at the 1989 San Sebastián International Film Festival, plays this Friday at the Bard Graduate Center. Now playing at the IFC Center is Chilean filmmaker Sebastián Silva‘s critical race
Following an incredibly successful festival run, Alfonso Cuarón‘s Roma is hitting big screens right on time for family, friends, and Thanksgiving break. A glorious cinematic feast that Cuarón himself considers his “most essential film,” Roma is kicking off its limited theatrical release this Wednesday at the IFC Center and The Landmark at 57 West. Mexico’s Oscar submission
Dear friends of Creatively Speaking, Please join us for series of features and short films presented at Metrograph Double Exposure:Portraits And Parallels From Across The Diaspora. See details below. All best, Michelle and Creatively Speaking Team
DCTV Presents 1999 Mon 11/19, 7pm, DCTV 87 Lafayette St NYC 10013 A filmmaker returns to her hometown to uncover the memories of a wave of suicides that shook her high school in 1999. None of her former classmates have talked about it, until now,
SMS Alum Jad-Evangelo Nasser’s film ONCE UPON A COLOR has been selected to screen at Katra Film Series on November 13 at Wine Legend -BK. This Festival will focus on innovative Storytelling and Diversity of voices in Film. Tickets available here. Tuesday, November 13th Wine
ADAM PRODUCED BY JIM STARK NYC CINEMA PREMIERE SCREENINGS IN TWO WEEKS ADAM is an award winning film that premiered in February in the Berlinale (the prestigious BERLIN FILM FESTIVAL). Since then it has played in festivals around the world and is due to
Another busy week for Latin American film lovers in the city with a bit of diverse narratives and aesthetics for different tastes. UnionDocs is presenting this Thursday a special screening of the Mexican film El Grito by Leobaldo López Aretche chronicling the Tlatelolco massacre in 1968, ten days before
Join the Center for the Humanities tomorrow, Tuesday, November 6th at 6:30 pm in Martin E. Segal Theatre at the Graduate Center, CUNY for a film screening of Manthia Diawara’s Édouard Glissant: One World in Relation (2009, 48 min), which follows Édouard Glissant, thinker of Relation and the All-World, on a transatlantic journey as he discusses
Filmatique’s Swiss Films Series continues with Dene Wos Guet Geit (Those Who Are Fine), Cyril Schäublin’s detached and darkly humorous satire exploring the lives of characters both central and oblique to a confidence scheme in Switzerland’s largest city. To watch our current releases click here. Membership required. FLMTQ membership is
TWO IRENES A film by Fabio Meira (As Duas Irenes, Brazil, 2017, 89 min. In Portuguese with English subtitles) By chance, Brazilian teenager Irene (newcomer Priscila Bittencourt, in an assured performance) discovers that there is another 13-year-old Irene living in the same town. Curiously, she observes
MAM EVENT: “Join the Videofreex Conspiracy” in the exhibition “Art and Conspiracy” The Met Breuer | Friday, Nov 9 | 8 PM Madison Ave & 75th Street, NYC Unofficial screening & discussion of Videofreex “Fred Hampton Interview” (1969, 23 min., b&w) Videofreex in person. RSVP for special
DECADE OF FIRE World Premiere November 10, 2018 Get Your Tickets Here A Letter from Vivian Vasquez “Dear Friends, On behalf of the producer of Decade of Fire, I am both excited and humbled to invite you to join us for the film’s World Premiere
MONROVIA, INDIANA explores a small town in rural, mid-America and illustrates how values like community service, duty, spiritual life, generosity and authenticity are formed, experienced and lived along with conflicting stereotypes. The film gives a complex and nuanced view of daily life in Monrovia and
Frederick Wiseman’s latest documentary MONROVIA, INDIANA is opening at Film Forum on 10/26. Check out the synopsis, trailer and ticket information, here. Additionally, there will be two Q&A’s with the filmmaker, one of Friday 10/26 at the 6:30PM show and one on Saturday 10/27 at 3:40PM. Read
Flix Premiere is offering you a free movie ticket to watch its latest ORIGINAL Production – the film Bikini Moon at a movie theater in NYC on October 12th, 2018. You might want to take a look at the trailer here. The movie is directed by Milcho Manchevski – an Oscar nominated Director and the main actress is Condola Rashad –
Kinoscope is a screening series sponsored by The New School’s School of Media Studies, aiming to enhance the awareness and understanding of the film and filmmaking process by screening a wide variety of national and international films. Pawel Wieszczecinski, Kinoscope‘s programmer and producer, and Media Studies faculty member Marcus
FPWA and Children of Promise invite you to a free community screening of the critically acclaimed documentary: Crime + Punishment Friday October 19, 2018 2pm to 5pm Children of Promise 54 MacDonough Street Brooklyn, NY 11216 Crime + Punishment chronicles the remarkable efforts and struggles
Pathbreaking filmmaker, theorist and composer Trinh T. Minh-ha will be visiting the Pratt campus on Thursday, October 4th and Friday, October 5th. October 4th, 2018 5:00 PM: Welcome reception 5:30 PM: Film Screening of Forgetting Vietnam (2016), Dir. Trinh T. Minh-ha, followed by Q+A with the filmmaker.
Don’t miss the exciting Latin American selections at this year’s New York Film Festival, running September 28 – October 14 at the Film Society of Lincoln Center. From Alfonso Cuarón’s Venice-winner Roma to the new film by Argentine director Gastón Solnicki, to new restored prints of the
MONDAY, OCTOBER 1, 2018 AT 6:30 PM to 8:30 PM Guangzhou Dream Factory: Film Screening & Director Q&A Starr Foundation Hall, Room UL102, University Center 63 Fifth Avenue, New York, NY 10003 Click Here to Register PICTURES IN MOTION. OF MOTION. FOR MOTION. The Zolberg Institute on Migration
306 HOLLYWOOD A film by Elan and Jonathan Bogarín USA, 2018, 94 min. In English At 306 Hollywood Avenue in Newark, former dress designer Annette Ontell lived for 71 years in a nondescript white house. After her death in 2011, her grandchildren Elan and Jonathan
ANNUAL CINEMA ARTS FESTIVAL IN BROOKLYN, NEW YORK. Exhibit your work at the largest expanded cinema festival in the US. 2018 edition with screenings at Judson Memorial Arts Church, Red Bull Gallery, & LightSpace Studios NY. Submissions are sliding scale from $0 to Pay-what-you-can. Deadline Oct
On Oct 6, 2018, from 5:20 pm – 7:30 pm, Reel Sisters is proud to announce a screening and conversation of Mr. Soul!, directed by Melissa Haizlip and Sam Pollard! Before Oprah – before Arsenio – there was Mr. SOUL! Ellis Haizlip made television broadcast history with “Soul!,” America’s first “black Tonight Show.” Join Reel Sisters
It is only 6 days away from the inaugural BAMcinematek presents: Film School Shorts 2018! This showcase, curated by Curtis Caesar John and BAMcinématek’s Natalie Erazo, celebrates new work by select student filmmakers from Brooklyn College, the Feirstein Graduate School of Cinema, Pratt Institute, Syracuse
You’re invited to an Exclusive Film Premiere in NYC! Flix Premiere – the world’s first online cinema – invites you to its first ever US Theatrical Premiere of the film Bikini Moon – a distinct New York based film, directed by the highly acclaimed and Oscar Nominated director Milcho Manchevski, starring Condola Rashad (from