TEACHING GUIDESfor selected DEFA films |
Screen + Stream in 2024 |
2024 Programming AwardDeadline: April 1, 2024 |
The fifth in our line of teaching guides to help teachers incorporate selected DEFA films into their classes! Our Teaching Guide #5 for Trace of Stones was developed by Juliane Wuensch (Skidmore College). The teaching guides are supported by the DEFA-... |
The DEFA Film Library will release the following newly digitized documentaries, feature and animation films in 2023-24. All titles will be available for educational streaming and rental. Stay tuned for the release dates. |
The DEFA Film Library launched a Programming Award in celebration of its 30th anniversary in 2023. This award of up to $1,000 will be offered annually for three years (2023-2025). |
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Time Loops: In Conversation with Christa Wolf
Christa Wolf (1929-2011) was one of (East) Germany’s most important writers. Wolf’s novels, scripts and essays offer rich reflections on her experience in Nazi, divided and reunified Germany. Adapted as films and published...
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Reminder For All Time
A short documentary about East German remembrance of the victims of National Socialism. Documentary material from the 1930s and 1940s is integrated into contemporary footage of memorials and commemorative...