DEFA Film Library turns 25!25 Screenings for 25% Off |
DEFA Film Library Endowment |
The Founder's Fundfor Student Researchers |
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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! |
In February 2019, Founding Director Barton Byg officially established the DEFA Film Library Endowment, as a means to support and enhance the mission and activities of the DEFA Film Library at UMass Amherst. In March 2019, he shared some of his thoughts on this important step. |
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! |
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Seed Corn Should Not Be Ground
At 47, German sculptor and graphic artist Käthe Kollwitz (1867-1945) lost her beloved son Peter in WWI. She began to process her grief in drawings and sculptures, including the famous memorialThe Grieving Parents,...
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Sylvia
This documentary profiles twenty-six-year-old Sylvia Erdmann, a true Berliner, at her job at a television electronics plant in Berlin-Pankow. Her relationships with her colleagues in the Progress I, her honest and...