On Tuesday, September 9, in collaboration with the Polish Cultural Foundation, we hosted a screening of Wladyslaw Pasikowski’s Jack Strong, a dramatization of the life of Col. Ryszard Kuklinski, a liaison officer between the Polish military command and the Soviet army, famous for passing secrets to the Americans during the Cold War. The film recast […]
On Monday, April 22, we hosted a screening of the 2011 Czech animated feature film Alois Nebel. The film, directed by Tomáš Luňák, is based on Jaroslav Rudiš’ and Jaromír 99’s trilogy of comic books about the character Alois Nebel: White Brook, Main Station and Golden Hills. Luňák’s feature film debut has been shown at […]
On Monday, April 1, in conjunction with Center Director Vivien Schmidt’s class on “Critical Moments and Memory,” the Center hosted a screening of Snovi, a 15-minute fictional account of a Bosnian composer, struggling to cope with the aftermath of the Serbian aggression in the 1990′s. “His memories interweave in fragments, forming a mosaic of a […]
On Thursday, April 19, it was our great honor and pleasure to host renowned filmmakers Marc Bauder and Dörte Franke for a special screening of The System (Das System – Alles verstehen heißt alles verzeihen). The duo’s first feature film had its US premiere at the Disappearing Act Film Festival in New York City just a […]