Join CSEEES for a short film screening and discussion! The film will be introduced by Daria Zhuravleva, Fulbright Teaching Assistant of Russian. Film description: The welfare service goes to a dysfunctional family to take a little girl to an orphanage - … Read more
Franek and Jozek Kalina, sons of a poor farmer, are brothers from a small village in central Poland. Franek immigrated to the United States in the 80’s, and cut all ties with his family. Only when Jozek’s wife arrives in … Read more
As the Cold War winds down, former concert cellist Louka (Zdenek Sverák) barely makes ends meet providing accompaniment at funerals after being blacklisted from his much cushier job with the Prague Philharmonic. For a fee, he marries a Russian woman … Read more
Ola must travel to Ireland to bring her father’s body back to Poland after he died working at a construction site. But never mind her dad, Ola wants to know if he saved money for the car he had promised. … Read more
Milan has three children and does construction work in Germany in order to provide for his family in Slovakia. While visiting his home over Christmas he discovers that his eldest son Adam is a member of a para-military youth group. … Read more
Can anyone be a movie hero? Can the world be locked in one film frame? Acclaimed Polish documentarian Paweł Łoziński directs his camera at the sidewalk below his balcony. On this gray strip of pavement, sandwiched between dull green grass … Read more
We are pleased to celebrate the publication of A Dictionary of Emotions in a Time of War: 20 Works by Ukrainian Playwrights by Laertes Books, an independent press in Chapel Hill, NC. The texts in the anthology were created in … Read more
Anthologies of contemporary Czech drama, edited or translated into German by Barbora Schnelle The key to understanding today‘s Czech theatre lies in the nineties - with the Velvet Revolution of 1989 and the transformation processes towards democratization and a market … Read more
Body W/O Borders is a play by Turkish-German playwright Özlem Özgül Dündar, translated by Henning Bochert, dealing with the stories of migrant Turkish workers who came to Germany in the fifties and sixties. Özlem Özgül Dündar, born in Solingen in … Read more
Body W/O Borders is a play by Turkish-German playwright Özlem Özgül Dündar, translated by Henning Bochert, dealing with the stories of migrant Turkish workers who came to Germany in the fifties and sixties. Özlem Özgül Dündar, born in Solingen in … Read more
