Attend this film event: “Provoking Reality: The Oberhausen Manifesto” @ the Coolidge

A little-known milestone in the history of movies took place 50 years ago at a film festival in Oberhausen, Germany, when 26 German filmmakers signed a statement demanding an independent cinema. In his lecture "Provoking Reality: the Oberhausen Manifesto," film historian Ralph Eue explains the movement and its influence and presents select films from the project Provoking Reality.