Ukrainian and post-Soviet film at Kinofest NYC this week. Meet the filmmakers

[Max Pyziur]

Kinofest NYC 2012: May 3-6

Don't miss Kinofest NYC's great lineup of feature and short films screening this week! Showcasing Ukrainian and post-Soviet films, this year the
festival includes seven sessions at two screening venues, the Museum (UM) and the Anthology Film Archives (AFA, 32 2nd Avenue, corner of 2nd St.).

Tickets are $10 per screening and may be purchased online or in person at the venue just before showtime.
http://www.ukrainianmuseum.org

Join us at the Museum this Thursday, May 3rd at 7:30 for the Kinofest NYC kickoff event!

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Thursday, May 3, 7:30 p.m. - UM
Cross Country
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Ukraine, 2011
Rus w/Eng subtitles
The Rain
Ukraine, 2007
Ukr w/Eng subtitles
Directed by Maryna Vroda
Film intro by Maryna Vroda

The Ukrainian Museum will kick off the weekend of film with filmmaker Maryna Vroda, who will show her short Cross Country, winner of the 2011 Palme
d'Or Best Short Film award at Cannes, and The Rain. The screening will be followed by introductions of all the visiting filmmakers from Ukraine and
Germany. The evening will end with a reception catered by Veselka restaurant.

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Friday, May 4, 7:30 p.m. - AFA
The Other Chelsea: A Story from Donetsk
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Germany, 2010
Rus/Eng w/Eng subtitles
Directed by Jakob Preuss
Film intro by Jacob Preuss

The New York premiere of the award-winning The Other Chelsea: A Story from Donetsk, directed by German-born filmmaker Jakob Preuss, will take place
at the Anthology Film Archives. Just in time for Eurocup 2012, The Other Chelsea is a revealing film about soccer and politics in Ukraine. Preuss,
who lives in Berlin, will be in New York to present his film. The Other Chelsea explores the links among sports, business, and politics in the
eastern Ukrainian city of Donetsk – home to Shakhtar Donetsk, the winning Ukrainian football team (soccer in the U.S.), and to billionaire football
supporter Rinat Akhmetov, and home base for Ukraine's president, Viktor Yanukovych. In his film, Preuss illustrates the social and political decline
that Ukraine's new elite have entrenched in their country. He humorously tells the story of the discordant worlds of increasing wealth and poverty
by following two ardent fans – a coal miner and a well-to-do politician. Their worlds meet in the Donetsk football stadium where, despite their
differences, they are united by their strong ties to the nostalgia of their Soviet past.

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Saturday, May 5, 2 p.m. - AFA
The Woman with the 5 Elephants
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Switzerland, 2009
Ger/Rus w/Eng subtitles
Directed by Vadim Jendreyko
Film intro by Prof. Nadia Kizenko, SUNY- Albany

No, the woman is not a circus trainer. She's Kyiv-born 86-year-old Svetlana Geier, a world-renowned Fyodor Dostoyevsky scholar. And the elephants
are five of Dostoyevsky's major works that Svetlana has been translating into German, a 20-year project. We discover that her father, an agronomist,
died a victim of Stalin's purges and that young Svetlana, to survive during World War II, became a German translator for the Nazis when they
occupied Kyiv. Having relocated permanently to Germany during the war, Svetlana returns by train to Kyiv nearly 65 years later.
Preceded by the film short 1937, Russia, 2010, Rus w/ Eng subtitles; directed by Svetozar Goloviev.

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Saturday, May 5, 5 p.m. - AFA
Post-Soviet Film Shorts
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Ave.AVI
Ukraine, 2011
Silent
Directed by Maxim Afanasyev

Cradle of Destiny
Ukraine, 2010
Ukr w/Eng subtitles
Directed by Serhiy Siliava

Home
Russia/Chechnya, 2012
Rus/Chechen w/Eng subtitles
Directed by Ruslan Magomadov

One More Day
Ukraine, 2011
Ukr w/Eng subtitles
Directed by Olexandr Rudyk

To Be Human
Ukraine, 2012
Rus w/Eng subtitles
Directed by Anna Butozova

Christmas with Fritz Dubert
USA, 2010
Eng
Directed by Michael Nikitin

Oko
Ukraine, 2010
Silent
Directed by Mykyta Liskov

Treasure Seekers
Ukraine/Poland, 2009
Pol/Ukr w/Eng subtitles
Directed by Agnieszka Bak

Boyarka Serenade
Ukraine, 2012
Rus w/Eng subtitles
Directed by Svitlana Tymoshenko

Ambitious
Bashkortostan/Russia, 2010
Bashkir w/Eng subtitles
Directed by Aynur Askarov

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Saturday, May 5, 8 p.m. - AFA
Land of Oblivion
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France/Ukraine/Poland/Germany, 2011
Ukr/Rus w/Eng subtitles
Directed by Michale Boganim

This engaging film about the nuclear plant disaster at Chernobyl and its effect on neighboring Pripyat residents is told primarily through the eyes
of a young bride, now a Chernobyl widow, Anya (Olga Kurylenko), and Valery, the son of a scientist who has disappeared. Pripyat, once a thriving
city of 50,000 built to house Chernobyl workers, became a ghost town after the meltdown. Ten years later, Anya is working as a guide, showing
tourists around a less toxic Chernobyl and Pripyat, and Valery is still searching for his father. But Anya is at a crossroads. She can stay and
marry her Ukrainian lover, Dmitri, who’s rebuilding a life in Pripyat, or she can try to escape past horrors by marrying her French lover, Patrick,
and moving to Paris.

Preceded by the film short Chronicle of Severe Days, 1986, silent w/Eng subtitles; directed by Vladimir Shevchenko.

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Sunday, May 6, 2 p.m. - UM
Goodbye, Ukraine!, a Volodymyr Tykhyy series featuring film shorts by Ukrainian filmmakers. Intro and Q&A: Volodymyr Tykhyy.
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Reed
Ukraine, 2011
Ukr w/Eng subtitles
Directed by Ruslan Batytskyy

Without GMO
Ukraine, 2011
Ukr w/Eng subtitles
Directed by Larysa Artiuhina

The Beard
Ukraine, 2011
Ukr w/Eng subtitles
Directed by Dmytro Suholytkyj-Sobchuk

Hamburg
Ukraine, 2011
Ukr w/Eng subtitles
Directed by Volodymyr Tykhyy

Off I'll Go
Ukraine, 2011
Ukr w/Eng subtitles
Directed by Valeriy Shalyha

Almost Love
Ukraine, 2011
Ukr w/Eng subtitles
Directed by Julia Shashkova

Angel of Death
Ukraine, 2011
Ukr w/Eng subtitles
Directed by Volodymyr Tykhyy

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Sunday, May 6, 5 p.m. - UM
Firecrosser
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Ukraine, 2011
Ukr/Rus/Eng w/Eng subtitles
Directed by Mykhailo Illienko
Film introduction by Prof. Alexander Motyl, Rutgers-Newark

This romantic ballad is based on the true story of a Ukrainian hero named Ivan Dodoka. Ivan, a Soviet pilot, is shot down during a sortie and
captured by the Germans. After being released from a prisoner-of-war camp, he is returned to the Soviet Union, but instead of being treated as a
hero, he is banished to a gulag. Ivan miraculously escapes and winds up in Canada, where he becomes chief of an Indian tribe. Some years later, as
the chief, Ivan meets a Soviet delegation in Canada. The delegation is shocked and baffled with this Indian chief who speaks fluent Ukrainian.

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For more information about Kinofest NYC, visit www.kinofestNYC.com.

The Ukrainian Museum's film series and traditional arts programs are supported, in part, by public funds from the New York City Department of
Cultural Affairs in partnership with the City Council.
   
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fyi,

Max Pyziur
pyz at brama.com

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