Past Events Archive

Joining attention to aesthetic experimentation with a focus on sociopolitical concerns, this talk will offer a discussion of the ways recent cinematic and artistic works engage Europe’s increasingly diverse and complex relationship to migration. With a focus on projects that explore the sociopolitical tensions that have surrounded migration in Europe …read more

Migration to Europe for reasons of survival (esp. from Syria and Afghanistan) and for economic reasons has vastly increased since 2014. The massive movements are a challenge and also a test for the willingness of the (mostly affluent) European countries to deal with the issues on a political, a humanitarian …read more

When Nicholas Ray and Wim Wenders decided to make a film together, Ray had already undergone surgery for cancer. It was only after shooting began that the two directors fixed on the idea of taking their real-life situation as the film’s fiction: Wenders and Ray deciding to make a film …read more

Stuck while his Hollywood film Hammett was on hiatus, Wenderscreated this self-reflective film-within-a-film about, of course, a filmmaker stuck on a Hollywood project. The film moves from the rocky Portuguese coast, where crew members wait out some very long days and nights as their science-fiction movie grinds to a halt, …read more

Bay Area Premiere! Featuring Louis Franck, Merab Ninidze, Viktoriya Korotkova, Chulpan Khamatova. “Everything is in chaos,” fittingly notes a character in Aleksey German, Jr.’s science-fiction look at a not-so-futuristic Russia. The film is set exactly one hundred years after the Russian Revolution amid a ruined, unfinished skyscraper, where assorted souls wander in …read more

Wenders produced this exquisite film written and directed by Peter Handke. “A married woman living in the suburbs of Paris separates from her husband and begins adjusting to a life alone. As the banal particulars of her daily routine proceed in a rigorously poetic fashion, every spoken word and gesture …read more

Wenders’s first “commercial” film merges his usual steadily presented musings on European identity, American culture, and cinema with some surprising new ingredients, from pulp-thriller source material—Patricia Highsmith’s Ripley’s Game—to a star turn from the manic, ever-destabilizing Dennis Hopper. A dying clockmaker (Bruno Ganz) meets a seedy American (Hopper, of course) …read more

Bay Area Premiere! Featuring Louis Franck, Merab Ninidze, Viktoriya Korotkova, Chulpan Khamatova. “Everything is in chaos,” fittingly notes a character in Aleksey German, Jr.’s science-fiction look at a not-so-futuristic Russia. The film is set exactly one hundred years after the Russian Revolution amid a ruined, unfinished skyscraper, where assorted souls wander in …read more

Illusion and reality, art and nature, cuss word and sonnet, Merkel and Trump, postmodern philosophy and the realities of​ everyda​y​ life:​ UC Berkeley’s annual German student cabaret presents a poetic mix of comedy and tragedy, ​​reconciling the seemingly irreconcilable. …read more

Find out why students who have studied abroad think it’s one of the best experiences of their lives! Hear students describe how you can fulfill academic requirements, learn languages, and complete independent-study projects or internships on your road to becoming a global citizen. …read more