Tags: Film

Screening of I am, I was, I will be and a pre-screening discussion with the filmmaker, Ilker Catak.

Tuesday and Wednesday at 3pm, Ciné will be showing The Teacher’s Lounge, a German-language film directed by 2022 Max Kade Artist-in-Residence Ilker Çatak and nominated for Best International Feature Film in the 2024 Oscars.Wednesday’s screening will feature a panel with several experts, including Dr. Berna Gueneli and Dr. Jan Uelzmann from the UGA German program, Dr. Antje Ascheid from UGA Film Studies, and Niels Mohl, current Max Kade Writer-in…

The UGA Russian Program will be hosting a screening of Andrey Loshak’s award-winning documentary film Broken Ties.  The film (with English subtitles) will be shown 6-8pm on February 20, 2024, in Caldwell Hall 107. The film is available on YouTube for those who cannot attend the screening.  About the documentary Filmed over a three-month period, “Broken Ties” follows seven Russian families as their relationships deteriorate in the…

Join the Russian Flagship Program on Sundays from 7-9pm to watch "How I Became Russian", a sitcom about the life of an American journalist in Moscow. 

Join us for another outdoor movie night! We will be watching Willkommen bei den Hartmanns. Pizza and movie treats will be provided. Bring a picnic blanket, lawn chairs, and friends! In the event of a rainout, the movie will be rescheduled to October 4. 

Join us for a reading, discussion, and screening of film clips with Thomas Pletzinger, author of the biography on German/American basketball legend Dirk Nowitzki: „The Great Nowitzki - Basketball and the Meaning of Life” (W.W. Norton, 2022)   Mr. Pletzinger is a Berlin-based German novelist, journalist, sportswriter, and translator.  He studied American Studies in Hamburg and Creative Writing at the German…

Come join our Discussion, special screening, & Q&A with a German Filmmaker at UGA Discussion and Q&A (in English) with filmmaker Ilker Çatak will be facilitated by moderator/discussant Dr. Berna Gueneli (Associate Professor of German at UGA and discussant Dr. Antje Ascheid, Associate Professor of Theater and Film at UGA). We will learn first-hand from the filmmaker about his career milestones and watch examples from his work. He…

Due to recent travel restrictions to the U.S., the events with Mehmet Büyükatalay have been postponed until a later date. Turkish-German Filmmaker Mehmet Büyükatalay, whose debut film Oray won Best First Feature Film in the 2019 Berlin Film Festival, will visit the University of Georgia and Athens for a couple of events on Thursday, March 26, 2020. Oray is a film about a young Muslim man's struggles between his love for his wife and religious…

The American West in Cold War Eastern European Cinema: Transnational Agenda and Commentary on Race in DEFA's Indianerfilme Lecture, Film Screening, and Q&A with guest lecturer Dr. Mariana Ivanova, Asst. Professor of German, Miami University of Ohio 11:00 - 12:00  Lecture and light lunch: Miller Learning Center Room 205 3:30-5:30        Film screening followed by Q&A   Miller…

German students are invited to a group viewing of this Oscar-winning film from 2006.   This is a short summary from the website imdb.com : In 1984 East Berlin, an agent of the secret police, conducting surveillance on a writer and his lover, finds himself becoming increasingly absorbed by their lives.