Next Ukrainian Film Club event at Columbia: save the date

[Diana Howansky]

The next event of the Ukrainian Film Club at Columbia University will be:

The Many Faces of Contemporary Ukraine: Films by Valentyn
Vasyanovych, Olena Fetysova, Oles Sanin, and Serhiy Bukovsky.

The event 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. The 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 event, 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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