Columbia students came together to lament over love and loss this past Friday at an open mic jointly sponsored by Quarto Magazine, 4x4 Magazine, and the Columbia Review.

Columbia Undergraduate Film Productions hosted its annual student film festival this Saturday in Roone Arledge Cinema in Lerner. Submissions were taken throughout the year from student filmmakers, and cash prizes were awarded to the three winners of the festival.

Dance and film merged in the inaugural Moving Body–Moving Image Festival on April 7, hosted in Barnard’s Altschul Hall and Atrium.

The annual Latenite Spring Anthology had students howling in laughter with a parade of lively shorts. This semester’s anthology featured eight skits, each inventive and outrageously funny.

While Aristophanes’ “Frogs” follows Dionysus’ voyage into the underworld, the revival ultimately should have been left buried due to poor production design and lackluster implementation of subtitles.

The Columbia University Players hosted their first Speaker Series event on Friday, in which current students had the opportunity to hear from theater alumni of both Columbia and Barnard.

King’s Crown Shakespeare Troupe and HeForShe performed a stark, minimalist rendition of “Electra,” Anne Carson’s translation of the original Greek tragedy written by Sophocles, on Wednesday.

NOMADS premiered “Type B,” a well-meaning and humorous slice-of-life play that focused on the relationships between young women fresh out of college, over the weekend.

Throughout the weekend, the Athena Film Festival focused on celebrating women in the film industry not just with screenings, but also with panels and talks that gave deeper insight into the unique experiences and work of festival guests.

The eighth annual Athena Film Festival, which took place at Barnard College from Feb. 22 to 25, continued its strong tradition of highlighting female talent and narratives in the film industry with high-profile guests, a string of premieres, and a diverse wealth of films from all over the world.