The Founder's Fundfor Student Researchers |
DEFA Film Library turns 25!25 Screenings for 25% Off |
Screened EncountersThe Leipzig Documentary Film Festival, 1955-1990 |
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The Founder’s Fund is being established in honor of Founding Director Barton Byg, with the goal of supporting student researchers from outside of the Five Colleges. Check back soon for details of this program starting in 2019! |
We’d like to celebrate our 25th anniversary with you! PLEASE JOIN US! The first 25 people to contact us about screening one of our films at their cinema, cultural institution, university or college in 2018 will get 25% off our regular screening fee! |
Volume one of our new book series—Screened Encounters: The Leipzig Documentary Film Festival, 1955–1990, by Caroline Moine—is now available for 50% off! Enter MO1097 when you check out at Berghahn Books! |
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DVD Releases
Isabel on the Stairs
Twelve-year-old Isabel and her mother, who was a famous political singer, had to escape Chile after the 1973 military coup. Isabel’s father stayed behind fighting in the underground. For six years, they have lived in a new apartment building in East Berlin. At first, the neighbors made an effort to welcome them, but later became more distant....
Film rentals
Erich Engel: A Hegel Among Comedians
He’s not just “a Hegel among comedians,” in the words of Professor Dr. Ernst Schumacher, but also “a director of the scientific age,” as Bertold Brecht once said. Erich Engel, working across time and art forms, was already well known in the 1930s as a theater and film director. The friendly solidarity between Bertolt Brecht, Karl...