New Romanian Cinema
October 5-7, 2007
A film series highlighting the works of four of Romania’s most important directors: Chrisi Puiu, Cristian Nemescu, Catalin Mitulescu and Corneliu Porumboiu
Co-sponsored with the Harvard Film Archive
Carpenter Center for the Visual Arts

Harvard Archive Film Series
Still Lives: The Films of Nuri Bilge Ceylan
May 16-May 21, 2007
Harvard Film Archive
Co-sponsored with the Harvard Film Archive
 
US PREMIERE and PRIVATE screening of the film BLISS
May 4, 2007
Murat Han, Lead Actor
Ömer Zülfü Livaneli, Author of the novel Bliss, Composer of the Bliss film music
Harvard Film Archive

Stolen Voices: Growing Up in a War Zone
January 31, 2007
At eleven years of age, Zlata Filipovic was exposed to more pain and suffering than most people experience in a lifetime. Trapped in her home in Bosnia during the war, Zlata recorded in her diary the deaths of friends and the terrifying moments she and her family endured. "Zlata’s Diary" became an international bestseller, translated into thirty-six languages and transforming Zlata into a spokesperson for all children affected by war. Zlata knew that she wasn’t the only child who has coped with war, and together with Melanie Challenger, a writer and activist for children of war, created "Stolen Voices: Young People’s Diaries from World War I to Iraq." A brown bag lunch discussion with Zlata Filipovic and Melanie Challenger about "Stolen Voices" and Zlata's personal experience of the conflict in Sarajevo.
John F. Kennedy School of Government

Screening of "the Border Post (Karuala)"
November 3, 2006
Director Rajko Grlic was present during the screening of his film, The Border Post set in a small town on the border of Macedonia and Albania during the late 1980s. Rajko Grlic’s humorous and nostalgic throwback to Eastern bloc filmmaking captures a moment of innocence in the final days of the Yugoslavian republic. Recalling the comic tone of Altman’s MASH, the film presents the uneventful daily lives of the soldiers serving at the border post who await the end of their enlistment and amuse each other with rowdy escapades until tragedy strikes. The first co-production of all of the former Yugoslav republics has played to great acclaim both within the Balkans and worldwide.
Co-presented with The Harvard Film Archive, the Department of Slavic Languages and Literatures and the Davis Center for Russian and Eurasian Studies, Harvard

Letter from Istanbul
The Derya Turkan-Sokratis Sinopoulos Ensemble
April 29, 2006
This concert drew on a carefully compiled repertoire comprised of traditional Turkish and Greek folk tunes, zeybeks, sirtos and compositions by individual artists. Letter from Istanbul was the closing concert of the 5th Annual Turkish Film Festival which took place from March 30th -April 29th.
Co-sponsored with the Boston Turkish Film Festival


Screening of "Six Years Older"
April 26, 2006
The documentary Six Years Older is an independent production made in the summer of 2005 in Kosovo, and refers to the time passed since the 1999 NATO bombing of Serbia and Montenegro. The bombing ended with the UN resolution mandating international administration of Kosovo. Kosovo is majority Albanian, but the issue of human rights of the remaining minorities remains a serious question.
Sponsored by the Harvard South Slavic Society

Romania Redux: A View From Harvard
Book Launch and Lunch
April 8, 2005
Lunch and a brief presentation by editor, Dan Dimancescu, and co-authors Manuel Costescu, Verena Kugi and Cristiana Pasca on "Romania Redux: A View From Harvard," a publication by current Harvard Romanian students and alumni that describe how their Harvard experiences shaped their perspective on Romania's past, present and future.
Co-sponsored with the Center for European Studies

Romanian Cinema Night featuring films directed by Nae Caranfil

Screening of "Filantropica" (Philanthropy)
Friday, APRIL 8, 2005 @ 8:00 PM
Lecture Hall C, Science Center, Harvard Campus
Entrance Fee: $4 - tickets sold at the door
Nonprofit event.  All ticket revenues cover organizational costs

Screening of "E pericoloso sporgersi" (Don't Lean out of the Window)
Saturday, APRIL 9, 2005 @ 7:00 PM
Building 10, Room 250, MIT Campus
On-line map and directions: http://www.mit.edu/~romania/Maps/directions-10-250.html
Entrance Fee: $3 - tickets sold at the door
Nonprofit event.  All ticket revenues cover organizational costs

Screenings organized and presented by The Romanian Student
Associations at Harvard and MIT

New Films from Europe 2005
January 21-30, 2005
The fifth annual festival of 'New Films from Europe.'
Harvard Film Archive
Co-Sponsored with the Harvard Film Archive, Goethe-Institut Boston, French Cultural Services, Consulate of Switzerland, and the Consulate of Spain

New Films from Europe 2004
December 5-17, 2004
The fourth annual festival of 'New Films from Europe.'
Harvard Film Archive
Co-Sponsored with the Harvard Film Archive and numerous organizations

Gregory J. Markopoulos: Toward the Temenos
March 28-31, 2003
Harvard Film Archive
Co-Sponsored with the Harvard Film Archive

"No Mans Land": Reflections on the War in Bosnia and Current Situation
February 28, 2003
Brown-bag lunch discussion with Danis Tanovic, Academy Award winning writer and film director 
John F. Kennedy School of Government

Crossing Borders: New Films from Europe 2003
January 17-29, 2003
The third annual festival of 'New Films from Europe'; program includes a diverse slate of films that address questions of national identity in today’s European climate. 
Harvard Film Archive
Co-Sponsored with the Harvard Film Archive, Goethe-Institut Inter nationes, French Cultural Services, Consulate of Greece, Consulate of Switzerland, and the General Consulate of Portugal, and the Swedish Film Institute

The American Repertory Theatre's production of Children of Herakles
January 4-25, 2003
Director Peter Sellars connects Euripides' 2500 year old drama to the plight of modern-day refugees.
Loeb Drama Center
Co-Sponsored with the Harvard Film Archive

A Celebration of Serbian and Other Balkan Music and Dance  
May 25, 2002
Kresge Auditorium, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Co-sponsored with the MIT Organization of Serbian Students

Three Greek Poets
March 28, 2002
Tassos Denegris, Antonis Fostieris, and Costas Papageorgiou read from their work.
Minda de Ginzburg Center for European Studies
Co-Sponsored with the Greek Consulate General of Boston

Hellenic Encounters: A Series of Greek Films
March 4-April 16, 2002
Harvard Film Archive
Co-sponsored by the Harvard Film Archive and the Program for Modern Greek Studies at Harvard University

New Films from Europe
December 7-18, 2001
Harvard Film Archive
Co-sponsored by the Harvard Film Archive, the Goethe Institut, Boston; the Consulate of France in Boston; the Consulate General of Greece in Boston; the Consul General of Italy in Boston; the Consulate of Switzerland in Boston; the General Consulate of Portugal in Boston; and the office of the British Consulate General in Boston

A Concert by the Bright Young Hungarian Rising Stars and the Axiom Duo
March 18, 2001
The program included Cesar Frank's Violin Sonata, Handel-Halvorsen's Passacaglia for Cello and Double Bass and Schubert's Trout Quintet
Pickman Hall, Longy School of Music, Cambridge, Mass.
Co-sponsored with The Hungarian Society of Massachusetts and Gabor Garai, Honorary Consul of the Republic of Hungary in Boston

Modern Greek Writers Series
February 9, 2001
Christos Chomenidis, Ioanna Karystiani and Ersi Sotiropoulou
John F. Kennedy School of Government
Co-sponsored with the Press Office, Consulate of Greece and the Foundation for Hellenic Culture

Earth and Water:  a film by Panos Karkanevatos
December 8, 2000
Harvard Film Archive 
Co-sponsored with the Greek Press and Communication Office at the Consulate General of Greece in Boston

Sophocles, Antigone
November 24, 2000 - January 17, 2001  American Repertory Theater, Loeb Drama Center
Co-sponsored with the Carr Foundation, the Charles and Mary Maliotis Charitable Foundation, Alexander S. Onassis Public Benefit Foundation, Euterpe Dukakis, and the Gerondelis Foundation

Yugoslavia: The Avoidable War - A Documentary
March 13, 2000
John F. Kennedy School of Government

A concert by Filharmonia Budapest Youth Soloists: Three Bright Young Hungarian Rising Stars
February 19, 2000
Valeria Polyak, Soprano; Peter Koczor, Piano; Antal Szalai, Violin; Robert Kovacs, Music Director
A recital of Bartok, Kodaly, Hubay, Liszt, Ysaye, Verdi, Puccini, and Gershwin
Pickman Hall, Longy School of Music, Cambridge

Sacred, Traditional and Contemporary Music
November 24, 1999
Kir Stefan Young Women's Choir of Smederovo, Serbia
John F. Kennedy School of Government

A Celebration of the Rembetiko
September 25, 1999
ARCO Forum, John F. Kennedy School of Government
Co-sponsored with the Hellenic American Women's Council

Zabe i Babe: World Music from Bosnia
May 12, 1999
Sanders Theater, Harvard University
Co-organized with the Southeast European Study Group, Center for European Studies

Balkans Film Festival
April 10-12, 1998
Science Center, Harvard University
Co-organized with the Southeastern Europe Society and the Harvard EuroClub

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