GABRIEL AND THE MOUNTAIN A film by Fellipe Barbosa (Gabriel e a Montanha, Brazil/France, 2017, 131 min. In Portuguese, English, and French with English subtitles) Based on the true story of a close friend of director Fellipe Barbosa, this beautifully photographed travelogue recreates the fateful journey of
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June on Filmatique: Best Undistributed Every year, the Film Society of Lincoln Center’s Film Comment magazine publishes a list of critically-acclaimed films that have not received US distribution. Many of these films are avant-garde, experimental; others are stirring portraits from regions of the world either not considered
JUNE 14—21 FILM SOCIETY OF LINCOLN CENTER and IFC CENTER Latino Films Presented by Cinema Tropical The Human Rights Watch Film Festival is honored to share powerful stories from Latin America and the U.S. This year, we are featuring courageous women in Venezuela, a Cuban
EN EL SÉPTIMO DÍA A film by Jim McKay (On the Seventh Day, USA, 2017, 92 min. In Spanish and English with English subtitles) En el Séptimo Día, a fiction feature from director Jim McKay (Girls Town, Our Song, Everyday People), follows a group of undocumented immigrants living in Sunset
DARK MONEY, a political thriller, examines one of the greatest present threats to American democracy: the influence of untraceable corporate money on our elections and elected officials. The film takes viewers to Montana—a frontline in the fight to preserve fair elections nationwide—to follow an intrepid
Within the realm of issue-driven documentary, a common visual language is often used to communicate empathy, urgency, and action around a cause. Happening this weekend, participants will learn how to work outside of that framework and make social issue films that emphasize and experiment with artistic
PANKE A film by Alejo Franzetti (Argentina/Germany, 46 min. In Bissa, German, French with English subtitles) New York Premiere! Q&A with director Alejo Franzetti “Panke is an ode to survival; a very careful meditation on the melancholy of immigrants, made with a tone at once convincing and detached. The
On May 3 at 6.30pm, we will be screening Disaster Capitalism, a powerful documentary on a six-year investigation by a best-selling journalist and author, Antony Lowenstein, into how aid dollars are spent. The film tracks the ramifications of disaster capitalism in Afghanistan, Haiti, and Papua New Guinea.
THE ABSENT STONE A film by Sandra Rozental & Jesse Lerner (La piedra ausente, Mexico/USA, 82 min. In Spanish with English subtitles) New York Premiere! Q&A with co-director Sandra Rozental In 1964, the largest carved stone of the Americas was moved from the town of San Miguel Coatlinchan
One of the best films of the year —Amy Taubin, Artforum “Adriana Barraza gives a masterful performance.” —Eric Kohn, IndieWire “Spellbinding… The film is as sublime as it is subtle.” —Gary Kramer, Film International EVERYTHING ELSE A film by Natalia Almada (Todo lo demás, Mexico/USA, 98 min. In Spanish
KK de La Vida, an online MA student in the Media Studies program, is excited to present “Liquid Plasticity: A Movement Prayer” at Yale Divinity School’s Graduate Conference on Religion and Ecology this Thursday, April 19, 2018. “Liquid Plasticity” is the second live iteration of “Reality
The Museum of Jewish Heritage – A Living Memorial to the Holocaust presents “116 Cameras “for film and post-screening discussion on Thursday, April 19, 2018 at 7:00pm. The post-screening discussion features Auschwitz survivor, Eva Schloss, and director, Davina Pardo. 116 Cameras With Auschwitz survivor Eva Schloss and director Davina Pardo April 19, 2018
NELSON FREIRE A film by João Moreira Salles (Brazil, 2003, 102 min. In Portuguese with English subtitles) “In films such as Noticias de Uma Guerra Particular, Joao Moreira Salles has demonstrated a keen interest in examining the dark underbelly of Brazilian society. But in this, his
Irish Screen America is presenting a special NYC screening and director Q&A of The Drummer and The Keeper onMonday, April 16th at Scandinavia House (58 Park Avenue New York, NY 10016) and New School students are invited. With the code ISA2018 students can get tickets at a discounted price of
Cinema | ‘The Green Book Chronicles’: Screening and Discussion with Calvin Alexander Ramsey Thursday, April 5, 2018 – 6:30 pm to 8:00 pm $10 general / $5 members and students The Theater at MAD TICKETS Co-produced by Calvin Alexander Ramsey and Becky Wible Searles (director), the
MY LAST FAILURE A film by Cecilia King (Mi último fracaso, Cecilia Kang, Argentina, 2016, 61 min. In Spanish with English subtitles New York Premiere! “There are many films piercing through Cecilia King’s first feature; there’s a film about a family (her sister, her mother, her aunt,
De Colores, a film by Luz Zamora, will be shown this Thursday, March 15, in BAM as part of a series called Through Her Eyes, curated by Michelle Materre. Click here for more info, and to purchase tickets. Click here to watch the trailer. THE STORY Aura has
The Fifth Edition of SR Socially Relevant™ Film Festival NY opens next Friday MARCH 16–22, 2018 CINEMA VILLAGE 22 East 12th Street (Between University Place and Fifth Avenue) Purchase tickets here. Accreditations for Press and Industry are available on the website. The Mission of the SR Socially Relevant™ Film Festival
The New School is delighted to host acclaimed Lebanese filmmaker Mai Masri for a screening of her new award-winning film 3000 Nights and a special 3-hour masterclass showcasing her documentary film practices. Mai Masri’s extraordinary body of films deal with cinematic approaches to understanding the contested lives of children
SMS Alum and Chilean filmmaker Gustavo Letelier is premiering his LGBTQ film “Shining Moon” at Cinema Village March 9-16. There will be a Q&A with the director at 7PM after the March 9th showing. Renato (RICARDO HERRERA) a jobless gay actor is offered the dream role
PRO-TV, in partnership with The Gathering For Justice, would like to invite you to a special screening of Baltimore Rising, an HBO documentary film about the social justice movement in Baltimore following the death of Freddie Gray. The film will be followed by a Q & A with
Neighboring Scenes: New Latin American Cinema February 28 – March 4, 2018 Film Society of Lincoln Center Presented by the Film Society of Lincoln Center and Cinema Tropical. Organized by Carlos A. Gutiérrez and Cecilia Barrionuevo. Now in its third year, Neighboring Scenes is the Film Society’s
Celebrated contemporary Argentinian author Ricardo Piglia is the subject of Andrés Di Tella’s fascinating portrait film 327 Cuadernos (327 Notebooks). Rejecting a conventional style, Di Tella created a more intimate approach by encouraging his friend’s recollections about his life and art by asking him to look
Doc Fortnight 2018: MoMA’s International Festival of Nonfiction Film and Media February 15 – 26 The Museum of Modern Art Latin American films co-presented by Cinema Tropical Doc Fortnight, MoMA’s annual international festival of nonfiction film, returns for its 17th year with 12 days of innovative approaches to documentary filmmaking. Featuring
To celebrate the global launch of VICE’s latest film, The Third Industrial Revolution: A Radical New Sharing Economy VICE and NYU are hosting a special screening and panel this Friday. The film lays out a new economic vision for a sustainable future, as told by Jeremy Rifkin. Vice
Doc Fortnight 2018: MoMA’sInternational Festival ofNonfiction Film and Media February 15–26, 2018 The Museum of Modern Art Doc Fortnight, MoMA’s annual international festival of nonfiction film, returns for its 17th year with 12 days of innovative approaches to documentary filmmaking. Featuring a diverse assortment of features
In collaboration with Critical & Visual Studies at Pratt Institute, we would like to announce Shapes of Freedom a talk by Carlos Motta. Carlos is a New York based internationally recognized multimedia artist originally from Columbia. In 2015, Carlos Motta countered binary norms by inviting
Experimental Animations by Jane Aaron Screening this weekend in NYC 1 PM 5 experimental animations by Jane Aaron “joyful and pure art that is uniquely cinematic” Sunday, February 4, 2018 @ 1 PM Quad Cinema 34 W 13th Street NYC https://quadcinema.com/film/Independent-Frames-Program-4-Introspection/ on-line streaming: https://experimentalanimationsbyjaneaaron.vhx.tv/
CINEMA TROPICAL FESTIVAL 2018 February 2 – 4, 2018 Museum of the Moving Image Cinema Tropical, in partnership with Museum of the Moving Image, present the 2018 edition of the Cinema Tropical Festival, celebrating the year’s best Latin American films. The festival will feature the winners of the 8th