The Founder's Fundfor Student Researchers |
Authority and Alterity in East German Movies2020 Summer Film Institute |
Celebrate Beethoven’s Birthday! |
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The Founder’s Fund, established in honor of retired founding director Barton Byg, aims to support the work of student researchers interested in East German cinema and DEFA Film Library collections. Application guidelines now posted! |
Apply by March 1, 2020, for the weeklong institute on Authority and Alterity in East German Movies: Political Experiments, Rebel Youth and Civil Unrest, May 31 - June 7. Co-directed by Mariana Ivanova (UMass Amherst) and Seth Howes (Univ. of Missouri). |
2020 marks the 250th anniversary of the birth of the great German composer Ludwig van Beethoven. An untiring compositional innovator, Beethoven was a crucial figure in the transition from the classical to the romantic era in classical music. |
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The Airship
Franz Xaver Stannebein, a young boy at the turn of the 20th century, wants to do nothing more than fly. He carries this obsessive dream into his adulthood as a merchant in Spain. One day, he meets German...
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The Girl on the Diving Board
Katharina Jens is accustomed to success as a competitive high diving champion. She steps in for her teammate Claudia during an international competition but fails to complete the difficult one-and-a-half...