Viewing: November 13,2024
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Director: Oles Sanin
In collaboration with Stand With Ukraine Through Film, we’re pleased to host a screening of the award-winning 2014 Ukrainian film The Guide – Please join us and show your support for the people of Ukraine.
Wednesday, November 13th at 7:00 p.m.
Admission is free and open to the public
About the Event
November is the time of the year when Ukraine commemorates the millions of its people who fell victim to Holodomor (“death by starvation”, in Ukrainian) in 1932-33 – a famine caused by the policies of the Communist Party and Soviet government authorities headed by Josef Stalin. To support Ukrainian people in this commemoration and to learn more about Ukrainian culture join the screening and Ukrainian Poetry Night to be hosted on November 9th, at Donkey Coffee, 5-7 pm, by the student organization Bobcats for Ukraine. Special thanks to Tetyana Dovbnya who made these events possible and who will introduce the film.
For more information about Bobcats for Ukraine, contact Tetyana Dovbnya at dovbnya@ohio.edu
For the entire month of November, we’ll be accepting donations for Ukrainian Relief Funds – please consider showing your support for the people of Ukraine.
About the Film
Ten-year-old American boy Peter Shamrock arrives with his father in Soviet Ukraine during the tumultuous 1930’s. When the boy’s father, an engineer who is in-country to bolster the cause for Socialism, is killed by Stalin’s police for possession of secret documents that detail the oppression of the Soviet regime, Peter goes into hiding. He encounters Ivan, a blind “kobzar” – an itinerant minstrel who travels from village to village, performing folksongs to earn a livelihood – and becomes the man’s guide. As the two wander the famine-stricken country, Ivan teaches Peter how he can survive with a pure soul amidst an unforgiving landscape where the danger of losing one’s innocence is an everyday reality.
Directed by Ukrainian filmmaker Oles Sanin, The Guide was Ukraine’s entry for Best Foreign Language Film at the 87th Academy Awards. While it failed to garner the nomination for Oscar, the film is still regarded as a fine achievement and stands as a critically-acclaimed, heartfelt drama about a nation that continues to this day to exert its independence from Russia’s political designs.
This event is made possible thanks to the following sponsors: Ohio University Honors Tutorial College and the Ohio University School of Film