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.
Join us at the Museum this Thursday, May 3rd at 7:30 for the Kinofest NYC kickoff event!
Thursday, May 3, 7:30 p.m. ‒ UM
Cross Country
Ukraine, 2011
Rus w/Eng subtitles
The Rain
Ukraine, 2007
Ukr w/Eng subtitles
Directed 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.
Friday, May 4, 7:30 p.m. ‒ AFA
The Other Chelsea: A Story from Donetsk
Germany, 2010
Rus/Eng w/Eng subtitles
Directed by Jakob Preuss
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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.
The Woman with the 5 Elephants
Switzerland, 2009
Ger/Rus w/Eng subtitles
Directed by Vadim Jendreyko
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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.
Saturday, May 5, 5 p.m. ‒ AFA
Post-Soviet Film Shorts
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
Saturday, May 5, 8 p.m. ‒ AFA
Land of Oblivion
France/Ukraine/Poland/Germany, 2011
Ukr/Rus w/Eng subtitles
Directed by Michale Boganim
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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.
Sunday, May 6, 2 p.m. ‒ UM
Goodbye, Ukraine!, a Volodymyr Tykhyy series featuring film shorts by Ukrainian filmmakers.
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
Sunday, May 6, 5 p.m. ‒ UM
Firecrosser
Ukraine, 2011
Ukr/Rus/Eng w/Eng subtitles
Directed by Mykhailo Illienko
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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.
For more information about Kinofest NYC, visit www.kinofestNYC.com.
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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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