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Cohen Media Group is proud to announce the release of Claude Lanzmann's final documentary SHOAH: FOUR SISTERS, a selection of the Cannes and New York Film Festivals, scheduled to open in New York on Wednesday, November 14 at The Quad Cinema followed by a national roll out. Composed of four segments, The Hippocratic Oath, The Merry Flea, Noah’s Ark, and Baluty, SHOAH: FOUR SISTERS will be released theatrically in two parts.

Starting in 1999, Claude Lanzmann made several films that could be considered satellites of SHOAH, comprised of interviews conducted in the 1970s that did not make it into the final, monumental work. In the last years of the director’s life, he decided to devote a film to four women from four different areas of Eastern Europe with four different destinies, each finding herself improbably alive after war’s end: Ruth Elias from Ostravia, Czechoslovakia (The Hippocratic Oath); Paula Biren from Lodz, Poland (Baluty); Ada Lichtman from further south in Krakow (The Merry F

US Premiere
Friday, NOVEMBER 23, 2018  @ 3:30 pm - 179 GD

REGULAR SCREENING:
Sunday, DECEMBER 9, 2018 @ 3:45 pm - Chapel

A charming animation for the entire family, this African fable tells the story of Minga, an orphaned girl living with her stepmother Mami Kaba and her stepsister Abena. One day, when she washes the dishes in the river, she accidentally brakes a spoon. A furious Mami Kaba chases her away from the house, asking her to find the only identical spoon hidden by her late mother. An adventurous journey then begins for Minga in the forest

WOMEN FILMMAKER COMPETITION
US Premiere
Saturday, NOVEMBER 24, 2018 @ 3:00 pm - Chapel
Sunday, DECEMBER 9, 2018   @ 1:30 pm - 179 GD

Eight months before the Independence of Tunisia, four women meet at a prison for women called Dar Joued. Of different ages and social conditions, they are condemned to live together under the authority and injustice of their jailer: “El Jaida”. They will share memories of the outside world, joy, emotions and distress of their daily lives. 

Teachers College, Milbank Chapel 

Gala Screening, Panel Discussion and Reception

Sunday, NOVEMBER 27, 2018 @ 6:30 pm

Cinema Village

Daily Screening @ 5:30 pm

From Friday, NOVEMBER 30, 2018

To Thursday, DECEMBER 6, 2018.

In January 2015, the President of the Democratic Republic of Congo, Joseph Kabila, sought a constitutional amendment that would allow him to be elected president for a third time.

This film documents the resulting demonstrations and follows three protagonists of the resistance. Ben, who lives in exile in New York, takes the advice of his fellow countrymen in exile and decides to join the struggle in the Congo. Jean Marie, who has just been released from prison, continues his public campaign for his country’s freedom and is persecuted by the secret service. Christian fights unperturbed in the streets of Kinshasa, even after former Prime Minister Etienne Tshisekedi, on whom the opposition had pinned their hopes, dies and the movement against Kabila’s extension of his time in off

Daily Screening at  Cinema Village @ 1:00 PM

From Friday, NOVEMBER 30, 2018 

To Thursday, DECEMBER 6, 2018

Growing up in the Moroccan village of Tazzeka, Elias learned the secrets of traditional Moroccan cuisine from his grandmother who raised him. Years later, meeting a top Paris chef and a young woman named Salma inspires him to leave home. In Paris, Elias faces unstable work and financial hardship as an undocumented immigrant. But he also finds friendship with Souleymane, who helps revive his passion for cooking.

DAILY SCREENING AT CINEMA VILLAGE @ 3:10 PM
From Friday, NOVEMBER 30, 2018 

To Thursday, DECEMBER 6, 2018 

2018 Nobel Peace Prize laureate and winner of the Sakharov Prize 2014, Doctor Denis Mukwege is internationally known as the man who has assisted thousands of women who have been sexually assaulted during the 20 years of conflicts in the East of the Democratic Republic of the Congo. However, his endless struggle to put an end to these atrocities and denounce the impunity enjoyed by the perpetrators is not welcome. Threatened with death, Doctor Denis Mukwege now lives cloistered in his hospital in Bukavu. But he is no longer alone in his struggle. The women to whom he has restored physical integrity and dignity, stand beside him, true activists for peace, hungry for justice.

(Directed by Thierry Michel and Colette Braeckman, 2015, Belgium/Congo, 113min, documentary in French, English, Swahil and Mashi with English subtitles.)

WINNER of 5 Human Rights Awards, 3 Audience Awards, and 4 Gra

WOMEN FILMMAKER COMPETITION

A DAY FOR WOMEN (Youm lel setat)
NY Premiere
Sunday, DECEMBER 2, 2018 @ 7:30 pm - Chapel
Sunday, DECEMBER 9, 2018 @ 8:00 pm - Chapel

A new swimming pool opens in a poor Cairo district, with the announcement that Sundays are reserved for women. This news causes sensation with ripple effects throughout the local community. As women flock around the basin, a series of events will forever affect their perception of themselves and their view of the world.

Futures of French Series

With Morgane Cadieu (French, Yale), Minayo Nasiali (History, UCLA), and comments by Tony Haouam (French and French Studies, NYU).

Morgane Cadieu is Assistant Professor of French at Yale University. She specializes in 20^th and 21^st century prose, randomness in literature and philosophy, space studies and materialism. The manuscript of her first book on Georges Perec, Samuel Beckett, Anne Garréta, Italo Calvino and Sophie Calle is called Marcher au hasard: déterminisme, clinamen et libre-arbitre en littérature au XXème siècle. In this work, she maps out the spatialization of chance; traces the genealogy of the atomist swerve; and shows how the authors of her corpus construct a new type of urban strolling.

Minayo Nasiali is Associate Professor of History at UCLA. Her first book, Native to the Republic: Empire, Social Citizenship, and Everyday Life in Marseille since 1945 (Cornell University Press, 2016), examines the politics of everyday life in Marseille neighborho

Red Carpet Event with Raffle Prizes: Lili Roquelin Album “BE INSPIRED” Release Party
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