BRAMA, April 26, 2012, 9:00 AM ET
Press release
Kinofest NYC Announces Its 2012 Film Festival Lineup
Festival Kicks Off with US Premiere of Cross Country Palme d’Or Best Short Film at Cannes
Four full-length feature narratives highlight the 2012 selections
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www.kinofestNYC.com
TICKETS
$10 per screening
Order in advance online.
VENUES
May 3 and 6:
The Ukrainian Museum (UM)
222 East 6th Street
(btw 2nd/3rd Aves.)
212-228-0110
May 4 and 5:
Anthology Film Archives (AFA)
32 2nd Avenue
(corner of E. 2nd St.)
212-505-5181
Maryna Vroda films
The Other Chelsea
The Woman with the 5 Elephants
Post-Soviet Film Shorts
Land of Oblivion
Goodbye, Ukraine!
Firecrosser
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New York — Kinofest NYC, presenting independent cinema from Ukraine and other post-Soviet countries, announced the complete schedule for its 3rd annual film festival, which takes place May 3-6, 2012. The festival will showcase four feature films, three of which are premiering in New York City, and twenty-one short films that are being shown for the first time in the U.S., during seven sessions throughout the weekend. This year's festival will take place in two venues: The Ukrainian Museum and Anthology Film Archives, both located in Manhattan's East Village.
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
WATCH THE TRAILER
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.
Saturday, May 5, 2 p.m. ‒ AFA
The Woman with the 5 Elephants
Switzerland, 2009
Ger/Rus w/Eng subtitles
Directed by Vadim Jendreyko
WATCH THE TRAILER
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. As the film opens, she's near completion. Highly intelligent and down-to-earth sweet, Svetlana is fascinating to listen to and watch as she translates collaboratively, prepares meals for her visiting family, or meticulously attends to household chores. Her life story is riveting. We discover, among other things, 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. A deeply satisfying film.
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
The filmmaker uses stop-motion animation to nightmarishly depict a macabre couple whose only delight is watching their coin-operated TV.
Cradle of Destiny
Ukraine, 2010
Ukr w/Eng subtitles
Directed by Serhiy Siliava
Society’s expectations and roles foisted on us, symbolically represented by a surreal sequence of footwear and feet.
Home
Russia/Chechnya, 2012
Rus/Chechen w/Eng subtitles
Directed by Ruslan Magomadov
An ingenious elderly Chechen forages to survive in the wasteland of Chechnya’s Russian-artillery-obliterated capital, Grozny.
One More Day
Ukraine, 2011
Ukr w/Eng subtitles
Directed by Olexandr Rudyk
A sweet, old baba and her simple longing.
To Be Human
Ukraine, 2012
Rus w/Eng subtitles
Directed by Anna Butozova
With wanted posters of him posted all over town, a young criminal on the lam faces a moral dilemma when he finds and then wants to turn in an abandoned infant.
Christmas with Fritz Dubert
USA, 2010
Eng
Directed by Michael Nikitin
It's the night before Christmas, and Tanya discovers her husband Albert holds more surprises for her than just her Christmas gift.
Oko
Ukraine, 2010
Silent
Directed by Mykyta Liskov
Animation with a stark, disturbing post-apocalyptic theme.
Treasure Seekers
Ukraine/Poland, 2009
Pol/Ukr w/Eng subtitles
Directed by Agnieszka Bak
Equipped with a metal detector, two elderly Polish brothers travel to the city of Lviv in search of their parents’ legendary buried treasure. The problem is it’s almost 70 years later, and a lot has changed. A humorous adventure.
Boyarka Serenade
Ukraine, 2012
Rus w/Eng subtitles
Directed by Svitlana Tymoshenko
Enchanting, 11-year-old Rachel is the product of a Ukrainian mother and an African father and has big saxophone dreams of leaving Boyarka for America.
Ambitious
Bashkortostan/Russia, 2010
Bashkir w/Eng subtitles
Directed by Aynur Askarov
The main event in a picturesque Bashkir village is the weekly film showing at the local recreation center. This delightful tale revolves around film-day’s most passionate fan, a boy nicknamed "disco dancer."
Saturday, May 5, 8 p.m. ‒ AFA
Land of Oblivion
France/Ukraine/Poland/Germany, 2011
Ukr/Rus w/Eng subtitles
Directed by Michale Boganim
WATCH THE TRAILER
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
A single father’s struggle to provide for his invalid daughter in a ramshackle Ukrainian village comes to a haunting conclusion.
Without GMO
Ukraine, 2011
Ukr w/Eng subtitles
Directed by Larysa Artiuhina
A recent widow reconsiders relocating abroad after a most unusual culinary encounter.
The Beard
Ukraine, 2011
Ukr w/Eng subtitles
Directed by Dmytro Suholytkyj-Sobchuk
An elderly, solitary, village man anticipates his daughter’s return from abroad to partake in an annual, intimate, father-daughter ritual.
Hamburg
Ukraine, 2011
Ukr w/Eng subtitles
Directed by Volodymyr Tykhyy
A hospital in Ukraine fulfills the adventurous fantasies of one of its patients … partially.
Off I'll Go
Ukraine, 2011
Ukr w/Eng subtitles
Directed by Valeriy Shalyha
The tedium of small-city family life inspires a middle-aged woman to consider working abroad.
Almost Love
Ukraine, 2011
Ukr w/Eng subtitles
Directed by Julia Shashkova
Fifteen-year-old Anya has a secret crush on the boy next door. She suddenly discovers that he's emigrating from Ukraine and doesn't have anywhere to leave his dog.
Angel of Death
Ukraine, 2011
Ukr w/Eng subtitles
Directed by Volodymyr Tykhyy
Every day, the reclusive Bohdan begs God to exact severe justice on all the scoundrels on earth. At last, his prayers are answered.
Sunday, May 6, 5 p.m. ‒ UM
Firecrosser
Ukraine, 2011
Ukr/Rus/Eng w/Eng subtitles
Directed by Mykhailo Illienko
WATCH THE TRAILER
This romantic ballad is based on the true story of a Ukrainian hero named Ivan Dodka. 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.
This year's festival is being produced in conjunction with The Ukrainian Museum as part of its "Film in Perspective" program (The Museum’s film program is supported, in part, by public funds from the New York City Department of Cultural Affairs in partnership with the City Council).
Major sponsors of the festival include Izolyatsia – Platform for Cultural Initiatives, Self Reliance (NY) Federal Credit Union, Veselka Restaurant, Bauer Dental Arts, and the Robert Bosch Stiftung, with additional funding provided by individual supporters.
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