Ukrainian Films by Vasyanovych, Fetysova, Sanin and Bukovsky this Thursday

[Diana Howansky]

This Thursday, the Ukrainian Film Club at Columbia will present "The
Many Faces of Contemporary Ukraine: Films by Valentyn
Vasyanovych, Olena Fetysova, Oles Sanin, and Serhiy Bukovsky"

This next screening will showcase recent works by filmmakers already
recognized in Ukraine and abroad:

-Vasyanovych’s “Counterclockwise” (“Proty sontsia”) (2004), which won
the Special Jury Prize at the 17th International Short Film Festival at
Clermont-Ferrand (France) in February 2005, is about the proverbial odd
man-out who tries to escape from the oppressive predictability of
everyday life into the world of art;

-Fetysova’s “If I Were a Saxophone” (2004) is a heart-warming story
about a gifted musician, Veronika Kozhukhariova, from Symferopol,
Ukraine, who follows her passion for playing the saxophone and
eventually wins the admiration of audiences in Moscow, Paris and Kyiv;

-Those who know Oles Sanin, director of “Mamay”, will be interested to
see him as a documentary filmmaker in his “Sin”, a disturbing and, at
times, surrealist tribute to his mentor Leonid Osyka;

-Finally, this event will be the first acquaintance with the
accomplished director Serhyi Bukovsky, winner of the 2004 Shevchenko
National Prize, for his nine-part TV series “War. Ukrainian Account”
(Viyna. Ukrayinskyi rakhunok). Bukovsky's “Red Soil” (Chervona zemlia”)
is an intimate look at the Ukrainian community in Brazil.

When:	Thursday, April 7, 2005, @ 7:30 PM
Where:	702 Hamilton Hall, 1130 Amsterdam Ave., New York, NY
The films will be shown in their original Ukrainian versions with
English subtitles.

Free and open to the public.

For more information on the Ukrainian Film Club at Columbia, please
visit www.columbia.edu/cu/ufc.


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Diana Howansky
Staff Associate
Ukrainian Studies Program
Columbia University
Room 1209, MC3345
420 W. 118th Street
New York, NY  10027
(212) 854-4697
ukrainianstudies at columbia.edu
http://www.sipa.columbia.edu/ukrainianstudies/

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