Film pick: "Across Borders: The Atelier Ludwigsburg-Paris"

Özer Kızıltan's Takva (2006), an exquisite drama about how money corrupts the pious property manager of a Sufi temple in Istanbul, is one of the finest cinematic explorations of the uneasy truce between the secular and spiritual worlds. It screens as part of the Goethe-Institut's "Across Borders: The Atelier Ludwigsburg-Paris," and that's reason enough to check out this presentation and panel discussion on film education featuring local academics and representatives of that renowned European graduate film program. It takes place in two programs at the Harvard Film Archive in the Carpenter Center, 24 Quincy St, Cambridge | December 14 @ 6 pm; December 15 @ 6:30 pm | free | 617.262.6050 or http://hcl.harvard.edu/hfa.