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Free and Discounted Events Conversations In America:  “2020 Vision”—The Year We Saw Everything Coming March 2022 on Zoom! Joachim Trier: The Oslo Trilogy  now playing in-person through February 3rd at Film at Lincoln Center Fifteen years after their first feature-length collaboration, Reprise (Q&A with Joachim Trier and Anders Danielsen Lie tomorrow!), and 10 years after its follow-up, Oslo, August 31st (Q&A with Trier and Danielsen Lie this Sunday), director Joachim Trier and his longtime co-writer Eskil Vogt turned their gaze back on the Norwegian capital city with NYFF59 Main Slate selection The Worst Person in the World (opening Friday, Feb. 4).  Playful yet melancholy, intricately observed yet bracingly deft, and centering on three exhilarating performances from actor (and practicing physician) Anders Danielsen Lie, the films that comprise the newly christened Oslo Trilogy deliver lyrical, unflinching meditations on memory, self-knowledge, and the mutability of identity in today’s Europe. More on the films of the Trilogy are below my signature.  In celebration of the new film’s American release, Film at Lincoln Center is excited to host the filmmaker for live Q&As and present the Trilogy alongside a selection of companion films curated by Trier and Vogt, some of which I've highlighted below:  Thurs. February 3rd: Ukrainian-Soviet filmmaker Larisa Shepitko was only 28 when she directed her second feature, Wings (1966), a searing & quietly impassioned character study of a woman caught between two ways of being, in the early aftermath of Khrushchev’s Thaw. The full lineup can be found here. Use the discount code NORWAY ($5 off in person screenings), for any screening on Feb. 3). Animation First 2022 Focus on Women Weekend in NYC Fri, Feb 11–Sun, Feb 13 Continues Online Nationwide Mon, Feb 14–Mon, Feb 21 Following the success and national reach of the 2021 exclusively online edition, this year’s festival returns to FIAF in person with an exciting lineup of programs from Friday, February 11 to Sunday, February 13. For the first time, the festival will also continue online with exclusive content from Monday, February 14 to Monday, February 21.   The festival will present 51 premieres of feature and short movies, provoking feature-length films, exciting shorts, immersive exhibits, panels and WIP with leading animators, and much more. Nearly 60% of the selected films were directed by women.    Highlights of the Festival include:   -  First Female Guest of Honor Florence Miailhe opens the festival with the NY Premiere of her award-winning first feature The Crossing, along with an in-depth discussion and a program of her short films. - Women in Animation panel: a panel on mid-career professionals, co-presented with Women in Animation and gathering Angela De Vito (animator, storyboard artist, and graphic novelist), Claire Matz (artist and producer), Joanna Quinn (animator), Taili Wu (animator). - Best of Annecy 2021: Spotlight on Women Directors: for the first time ever the International Animation Film Festival’s team curated a selection of shorts by women directors with films shown at the 2021 festival.   You can see the trailer, access the full program, and buy your pass HERE. The discount code to unlock the 20% is AF20FP   The online passes can be purchased here and the discount code is 20OFF Online events and links to explore and learn: Schedule of Events from the Association for the Study of African American Life and History The 1619 Project from the New York Times Events from the Smithsonian Institution 52 Black Movies on Netflix from Oprah Magazine Black Women Poets You Should Know from The Lily 21 Black Female Poets from The Tempest 15 Black Female Artists Who Are Dominating the Music Industry 25 Songs by Black Women that Rocked the World from the 1920s- 2020  Andra Day music playlist Where are the Black Women Artists At? 10 Breakthrough Women Artists from Black Art in America Black Women and Pleasure Coalition Website ‌ ‌ ‌