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Dear Friends,
The 29th annual edition of Film|Neu – Washington, DC's only annual festival of great new films from Germany, Austria, and Switzerland – opens this evening at Landmark's E Street Cinema. At 7:30pm, we will kick off the hybrid-format festival with Oskar Roehler's Enfant Terrible, a biopic about German New Wave filmmaker Rainer Werner Fassbinder. Simultaneously, our six virtual film selections will become available to the District of Columbia, Maryland, and Virginia, until Sunday evening. Visit the festival page at www.filmneu.org to see a full program and schedule, purchase tickets, and more.
On December 2, we partner with the ICWA (Institute of Current World Affairs) and American Purpose to present a seminar on Populism and Democracy in Germany and Central Europe. ICWA fellowship alumna Emily Schultheis, who spent two years researching and following the Alternative for Germany Party (Alternative für Deutschland, AfD) and other far-right populist groups across Central Europe, will speak at the Goethe-Institut about how and why far-right populism in Central Europe has been on the rise again. The seminar will also be livestreamed.
In partnership with Beyond Nuclear International and the Heinrich-Böll-Stiftung, we will hold a virtual panel discussion on December 7 about the role of visual arts in advocating for an end to the nuclear age. Panelists are: playwright and performance artist Jessica Grindstaff; painter Mary Lou Dauray; and fashion designer Runa Ray.
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