Saturday, December 2, 2017 (8)

Dec 2, 2017
October 5, 2017
Thursday
  • FACES PLACES

  • Oct 5, 2017 to Dec 29, 2017
  • Location: Lincoln Plaza Cinemas and The Quad
  • Description:

    Cohen Media Group is proud to announce the release of the enchanting documentary/road movie FACES PLACES (VISAGES VILLAGES,) co-directed by 89-year old Agnes Varda, one of the leading figures of the French New Wave, and acclaimed 33 year-old French photographer and muralist JR. A sensation at this year's Cannes Film Festival, and a selection of the Telluride, Toronto and New York Film Festivals, it is scheduled to open in New York on Friday, October 6 at Lincoln Plaza and the Quad Cinemas, followed by a national roll out.

    Kindred spirits, Varda and JR share a lifelong passion for images and how they are created, displayed and shared.  Together they travel around the villages of France in JR’s photo truck meeting locals, learning their stories and producing epic-size portraits of them.  Their photos are prominently displayed on houses, barns, storefronts and trains revealing the humanity in their subjects, and themselves. FACES PLACES documents these heart-warming encounters as well as t

  • Created by: Aimee Morris
November 23, 2017
Thursday
  • THE PASSION OF JOAN OF ARC

  • Nov 23, 2017 to Dec 5, 2017
  • Location: Film Forum
  • Description:

    DAILY (except SUN, NOV 26 & DEC 3 and MON, DEC 4)  12:30   2:50   5:10   7:30   9:50 
    SUN NOV 26  2:30   4:40   7:00   9:20
    SUN DEC 3  12:45   5:10   7:30   9:50 
    MON DEC 4  12:30   2:50   5:10   9:20

    Friday, November 24 – Tuesday, December 5

    NEW RESTORATION

    Directed by Carl Theodor Dreyer

    Starring Falconetti

    Featuring Richard Einhorn’s Voices of Light

    (1928) 1431, and the charismatic, mystic warrior Joan is led before her English and French inquisitors for the last day of her trial for heresy. Danish director Dreyer condensed months of interrogation into a single day, with all dialogue taken from the still-extant transcripts, built a gigantic re-creation of the city of Rouen, stylized in the manner of medieval illuminations, then hardly showed it at all as he concentrated on a non-stop set of brutally realistic, often low-angled close-ups of fevered intensity never before seen on screen (and seldom since), sans makeup or flattering lighting, focusing closest on what, per Pauline Ka

  • Created by: Film Forum
November 26, 2017
Sunday
  • The African Diaspora International Film Festival (ADIFF)

  • Nov 26, 2017 to Dec 10, 2017
  • Location: Teachers College, Columbia University
  • Description:

    The African Diaspora International Film Festival (ADIFF) celebrates its 25th anniversary with a total of 64 films from 31 countries including 31 World, US and NY Premieres. Screenings will be held in three venues in Manhattan: Teachers College, Columbia University, Cinema Village and MIST Harlem. 

    The films in ADIFF 2017 – some coming directly from important national and international film festivals such as Sundance, Toronto or Berlinale - illustrate the diversification of the global film industry, from portraits of trailblazers  of yesterday and today (Winnie, Sammy Davis Jr., Mama Africa: Miriam Makeba) to intimate stories that will touch the audience in many ways (The Citizen, Foreign Body, Rosa Chumbe).

    ADIFF 2017 FACT SHEET


    WHAT:
      25th Annual African Diaspora International Film Festival 
    WHEN: November 24 to December 10, 2017
    WHERE: 

    * MILBANK CHAPEL, TEACHERS COLLEGE, CU - 525 W 120th St.- 125 Zankel & 177GD/179GD

    * COWIN CENTER, TEACHERS COLLEGE, CU - Entrance between 120th and 121t

  • Created by: NY ADIFF
December 1, 2017
Friday
  • SINS OF THE FLESH

  • Dec 1, 2017 at 8:00am to Dec 7, 2017 at 8:00am
  • Location: Cinema Village
  • Description:

    From one of Egypt’s most controversial and taboo-breaking filmmakers comes a drama of betrayal, passion and political upheaval.  Set against the Egyptian revolution as a backdrop, the story is built around four people who live on a desert farm. It examines issues of love, revenge, passion and the misuse of power that illustrates the larger conflicts in the country…

    The film caused a firestorm of media debate over freedom of expression in its home country. Ironically, even under the newer government, the film was censored and subjected to numerous edits before Egyptians could view it. It’s a scathing critique of the establishment, building to an unflinching ending that questions where the revolution is headed and what it has accomplished.

  • Created by: NY ADIFF
 
  • SINS OF THE FLESH

  • Dec 1, 2017 at 8:00am to Dec 7, 2017 at 8:00am
  • Location: Cinema Village
  • Description:

    From one of Egypt’s most controversial and taboo-breaking filmmakers comes a drama of betrayal, passion and political upheaval.  Set against the Egyptian revolution as a backdrop, the story is built around four people who live on a desert farm. It examines issues of love, revenge, passion and the misuse of power that illustrates the larger conflicts in the country…

    The film caused a firestorm of media debate over freedom of expression in its home country. Ironically, even under the newer government, the film was censored and subjected to numerous edits before Egyptians could view it. It’s a scathing critique of the establishment, building to an unflinching ending that questions where the revolution is headed and what it has accomplished.

  • Created by: NY ADIFF
 
  • GURUMBE: AFRO-ANDALOUSIAN MEMORIES

  • Dec 1, 2017 at 12:30pm to Dec 7, 2017 at 2:30pm
  • Location: Cinema Village
  • Description:

    GURUMBE

    The African Diaspora International Film Festival - 72 min

    Q&A with Director M. Angel Rosales on Friday, Dec. 1st and Saturday, Dec. 2nd

    Flamenco is synonymous with Spanish culture. Since its inception, theorists have sidelined the fundamental contribution of Afro-Andalusians. Commercial exploitation of the American colonies brought hundreds of Africans to Spain to be sold as slaves, forming a population who over time managed to gain space in a society wrought with racial prejudices. Music and dance were a fundamental part of their expression and the most important affirmation of their identity. As the black population began to disappear from Spain in the late 19th century, so too did their contribution to this extraordinary art form. In Gurumbé, their story is finally told.

     

  • Created by: NY ADIFF
 
  • ROSA CHUMBE

  • Dec 1, 2017 at 2:30pm to Dec 7, 2017 at 4:00pm
  • Location: Cinem Villge
  • Description:

    ROSA CHUMBE

    The African Diaspora International Film Festival - 75 min

    Rosa Chumbe is set in the middle of October, in the city of Lima, Peru. This is “the purple month”: the time to commemorate the Lord of Miracles, the most widely venerated image of Christ in the city, with many processions going on around downtown.  Rosa Chumbe, an indigenous, mature police officer with both a gambling and a drinking problem lives with her daughter Sheila, who has a little baby. One day, after a big fight between them, Sheila steals her mother’s savings and storms out of the house leaving her baby behind. Rosa is forced to spend some time with her grandson. Something changes inside her heart of stone. However, everything takes a wrong turn one night. Only a miracle can save her.

  • Created by: NY ADIFF
December 2, 2017
Saturday
  • TALKING ABOUT RACE FOR PARENTS: Border Crossers at the Language and Laughter Studio

  • Dec 2, 2017 from 9:00am to 12:00pm
  • Location: THE LANGUAGE AND LAUGHTER STUDIO
  • Description:

    A Training for All Parents and Caregivers Committed to Racial Justice

    How do we have conversations about race or racism with our children?

    This training provides all parents, guardians, and caregivers with strategies to effectively address issues of race and racism with their children. Through interactive activities and dialogue, participants will learn how children see race, and gain skills for approaching age-appropriate conversations using a racial equity lens. They will also practice strategies to promote positive racial identity development in children, including addressing misconceptions about race and reversing unconscious racial bias.

    Sign up here!

    Please note: the event will be held if enrollment threshold is met, otherwise you will be reimbursed. The Language and Laughter Studio is subsidizing all tickets.

    The training is provided by Border Crossers. 

    The Language and Laughter Studio is a progressive French preschool and language school located in Boerum Hill, on Nevins and Bergen

  • Created by: Pascale Setbon