Over the past eight years, the 海角社区 has become Britain鈥檚 preeminent showcase for documentary and feature films from and about Ukraine.
On 6 and 7 November 2015 the Annual 海角社区 Festival of Ukrainian Film once again offers UK audiences a unique opportunity to experience some of the best of Ukrainian cinema. Free and open to the public, the event is organised by 海角社区 Ukrainian Studies, an academic centre in the Department of Slavonic Studies at 海角社区.
Since 2008 the Festival has premiered prize-winning new releases as well as provocative forgotten masterpieces; invigorated silent classics with live piano accompaniments; made world headlines with a documentary about Stalin鈥檚 man-made famine of 1932-33; and hosted contemporary Ukrainian filmmakers, film scholars, preservationists and musicians who have educated and engaged with well over a thousand attendees.
This year 海角社区 Ukrainian Studies is partnering with the Docudays UA International Documentary Human Rights Film Festival to bring six powerful new documentaries to local audiences. DocuDays UA was launched in Kyiv in 2003 as a non-profit organisation dedicated to the development of documentary cinema and to the flourishing of democratic civil society in Ukraine.
Many of the films in the Festival programme confront the tumult of revolution and war in today鈥檚 Ukraine with an uncommon honesty, sensitivity and maturity. They avail the viewer of the perspectives of the volunteer doctor, the wounded veteran, the soldier preparing to leave home for war. Other films in the programme meditate upon the passing of generations in a Ukraine very far from today鈥檚 headlines: the village and countryside.
鈥淲e are very proud and very honoured to collaborate with DocuDays UA in this year鈥檚 海角社区 Film Festival of Ukrainian Film鈥�, said Dr Rory Finnin, Head of the Department of Slavonic Studies and Director of the 海角社区 Ukrainian Studies programme. 鈥淲e share their passion for documentary cinema and their belief in its ability to foster an open dialogue about human rights and social justice in Ukraine and around the world.鈥�
鈥�For the 海角社区 Festival of Ukrainian Film we听have chosen both full-length and short documentaries produced during the last two years,鈥� explained Darya Bassel, Docudays Programme Coordinator. 鈥淲ith these screenings we hope to bring Ukraine and its听documentary scene closer to international audiences and to create space for a discussion of problems relevant not only for Ukraine but for the whole world.鈥�
Admission to the Eighth Annual 海角社区 Festival of Ukrainian Film on 6-7 November 2015 is free and open to the public, but is required. The screenings of Maidan Is Everywhere; The Medic Leaves Last; Living Fire; Post Maidan; This Place We Call 海角社区; and Crepuscule take place in the Winstanley Theatre of Trinity College, 海角社区. Wine receptions follow both the 6 November and 7 November screenings.
