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The Ukrainian Film Club of Columbia University will commemorate the first anniversary of the all-out Russian war against Ukraine by a program of war shorts: Dispatches from the Front Lines of Russian War Against Ukraine. Introduced and moderated by Yuri Shevchuk.
The program includes five documentary and one feature short made on the frontlines of the current Russian-Ukrainian war: Peace and Tranquility, 2022, director Myro Klochko, Follow Me, 2022, director Lubomyr Levitsky, Liturgy of Anti-Tank Obstacles, 2022, director Dmytro Sukholytky-Sobchuk, It’s Quiet Here, 2022, directors Olena Podolianko and Novruz Khikmet, I did not Want to Make a War Film, 2022, director Nadiia Parfan, Fortress Mariupol. Orest, 2022, director Yulia Hontaruk, and feature short Mother, 2022, director Yuri Leuta. Myro Klochko uses a collage of images to create his auto-biography viewed through the lens of the war. Lubomyr Levitsky tells a breathtaking story of how a married couple fleeing Russian occupation was snatched from the jaws of death by Ukrainian drone operators. The short of Dmytro Sukholytky-Sobchuk, selected for the official competition of the Sundance International Film Festival, documents how the Ukrainians in the deep rear are affected by and respond to the war as does Nadia Parfan’s, Olena Podolianko’s, and Novruz Khikmet’s documentaries. Yuri Leuta’s staged short features the popular actress Ryma Dziubyna as a mother in the middle of a residential neighborhood razed by Russian missile strikes. Yulia Hontaruk features a portrait of Orest one of the heroic defenders of Mariupol and its citizens under the brutal Russian siege.
