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Strand Releasing is proud to announce the US release of STAYING VERTICAL, French writer-director Alain Guiraudie’s new provocative and genre-defying character study about a filmmaker struggling with creativity, responsibility, fatherhood, and sexuality. A selection of the 2016 Cannes Film Festival competition and the New York Film Festival, STAYING VERTICAL is scheduled to open in New York on Friday, January 20 at The Film Society of Lincoln Center and the IFC Center, followed by a national roll out.

Léo (Damien Bonnard), a blocked filmmaker seeking inspiration in the French countryside for an overdue script, begins an affair with a shepherdess (India Hair), with whom he almost immediately has a child. Combining the formal control of his 2013 breakthrough Stranger by the Lake with the shape-shifting fabulism of his earlier work, Alain Guiraudie’s new film, which often veers towards surreal black comedy, is a sidelong look at the human cycle of birth, procreation, and death, as well as

Amazon Studios and Cohen Media Group are proud to announce the release of award-winning writer/director Asghar Farhadi’s (A SEPARATION, THE PAST, ABOUT ELLY, FIREWORKS WEDNESDAY) masterful, intimate, and suspenseful new drama THE SALESMAN, nominated for an Oscar® for Best Foreign Language Film. Winner of the Best Actor (Shahab Hosseini) and Best Screenplay (Farhadi) awards at this year’s Cannes Film Festival, and has won numerous other international awards. THE SALESMAN (a French co-production) will open in New York (Lincoln Plaza Cinema and Angelika Film Center) and Los Angeles on Friday, January 27, with a national roll out to follow.

After their old flat becomes damaged, Emad (Shahab Hosseini) and Rana (Taraneh Alidoosti), a young couple living in Tehran, are forced to move into a new apartment.  Eventually, a sudden eruption of violence linked to the previous tenant of their new home dramatically changes the couple’s life, and creates a simmering tension between husband and wife. A

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Souleymane Bachir Diagne talks about his book, The Ink of the Scholars: Reflections on Philosophy in Africa, recently translated into English, in a panel discussion with Gary Wilder and Mamadou Diouf. 

Souleymane Bachir Diagne is a Professor of Philosophy and French and the Chair of the Department of French at Columbia University.  His areas of expertise include history of logic, history of philosophy, Islamic philosophy, and African philosophy and literature.  Mamadou Diouf is a Professor of History and African Studies at Columbia.  Gary Wilder is Associate Professor of Anthropology at CUNY.

This event is co-sponsored by the Heyman Center for the Humanities as part of their series on New Books in the Arts & Sciences and the Maison Française.