Events

Cohen Media Group is proud to announce the release of HEAL THE LIVING, rising French director Katell Quillévéré’s deeply affecting study of human interconnectedness. Written by Quillévéré and frequent André Téchiné collaborator Gilles Taurand (Thieves, Wild Reeds), HEAL THE LIVING’s César-nominated screenplay is based on Maylis de Kerangal’s internationally acclaimed novel The Heart, and is scheduled to open in New York on April 14 at the Quad Cinema followed by a national roll out.

Charting with unusual sensitivity and hope how disparate lives are touched by a tragedy, HEAL THE LIVING follows how a car accident settles into motion a chain of events that affects everyone from the parents of the 17 year-old brain-dead teenage boy, to the hospital staff to a mother of two (Anne Dorval) in need of a heart transplant.  Quillévéré weaves together the multi-strand narrative with consummate grace, abetted by a remarkable ensemble cast (including Emmanuelle Seigner as the boy’s mother and Tahar

You are cordially invited to the Third Edition of the New York Forum of Amazigh Film (or NYFAF, formerly Amazigh/Berber Film Festival) on Thursday May 4 and Friday May 5, 2017. These two days of free films explore a range of issues affecting North African indigenous cultures.

This year we are excited to showcase Amazigh films from the Canary Islands with the participation of the actress Laura Perdomo and the producers Antonio Bonny & Pablo Rodríguez.  On Thursday afternoon there will be a live performance of Amazigh musicians Izenzaren. On Friday we will screen the US premiere of Adour with the participation of the filmmaker Ahmed Baidou. Each film will benefit from a Q & A with invited scholars.

 Join us for our Call to Discussion on Thursday May 4 at 10:30 where two quest experts will address the challenges of nationalism and globalization. How do Amazigh communities continue to transmit their heritage and build pluralistic societies?

Guest Speakers: Bruce Maddy-Weitzman (Tel Aviv Unive

Readings and Conversation

International authors Oddný Eir, Marcelino Truong and Bae Suah – from Iceland, Vietnam and France, and South Korea – will read from their work, and discuss the extent to which they fictionalize their own lives, and the personal boundaries they draw.

http://fiaf.org/events/spring2017/2017-05-05-film.shtml

Screening will be introduced by Raymond Depardon

Get a look inside the life and work of internationally acclaimed photographer and filmmaker Raymond Depardon in advance of his exhibition Correspondance New-Yorkaise 2017 in the FIAF Gallery, May 12-July 1.

Directed by Raymond Depardon 
and Claudine Nougaret, 2012. 100 min. 
In French with English subtitles.

"An enticing amuse-bouche to an artist whose body of work has become essential viewing"—Variety

For six years, internationally acclaimed photographer and filmmaker Raymond Depardon travelled through France in an RV, capturing his home country with a large format camera. This long, solitary road trip provided fertile ground for the creation of a remarkable travel journal with his long-time partner and collaborator Claudine Nougaret. The journey brings Depardon back to important places from his past as a reporter—Chad, Venice, Cannes.

Documentary footage of the photographer in action is i

Roundtable Discussion

This timely conversation will focus on the writers’ individual approaches to activism and resistance in their writing practice, and explores politics, gender, and identity through the lens of the female writer.

With Lila Zemborain, Mariela Dreyfus, Simone Lappert, Maïa Mazaurette, and Jessie Chaffee. Moderated by Rebecca Falkoff.