aaus-list @ ukrainianstudies.org -- [aaus-list] Director to present Ukrainian films tomorrow

[Diana Howansky <dhh2@columbia.edu>]

TOMORROW:

The February 2006 event of the Ukrainian Film Club of Columbia 
University will feature something entirely different -- for the first 
time, the Film Club will screen films made about Ukraine in other 
countries. This is meant to be an invitation for the viewers to take a 
look at Ukraine and Ukrainian heritage through the eyes of a Westerner. 
The event will be the first installment of an on-going program entitled:

"Ukraine. A Cinematic View From the West."

The New York film-maker ANDREA ODEZYNSKA will present her two films and 
engage the audience in a post-screening discussion.

The program includes: “The Whisperer,” 2005, a documentary about 
little-known folk rituals of the Carpathian highlands that will 
seriously test the viewer’s capacity to believe in the unbelievable.

“Dora Was Dysfunctional,” 1994, a hilarious story of a young American 
caught in between two cultures - American and Ukrainian, and looking for 
love in all the wrong places. This romantic comedy was short-listed at 
the Academy Awards, the Hampton Film Festival and the Rotterdam Film 
Festival. It has been screened on HBO and Showtime.

Both films are in English.

WHEN: February 16, 2006, Thursday, 7:30 PM

WHERE: 717 Hamilton Hall, Columbia University


-- 
Diana Howansky
Staff Associate
Ukrainian Studies Program
Columbia University
Room 1208, MC3345
420 W. 118th Street
New York, NY  10027
(212) 854-4697
ukrainianstudies@columbia.edu
http://www.harrimaninstitute.org/courses/ukrainian_studies_program.html