| Date | Time | Location |
|---|---|---|
| Friday, March 6, 2009 | 3:00PM - 6:00PM | External Event, Innis Townhall, Innis College, University of Toronto, 2 Sussex Ave |
Between a Rock and a Hard Place: Ukrainian Cinema since Independence
The series will present S. Bukovsky’s documentary SPELL YOUR NAME (2006). Produced by the USC Shoah Foundation Institute for Visual History and Education (http://college.usc.edu/vhi/), made possible by a generous grant from Victor Pinchuk, and in continued partnership with the Victor Pinchuk Foundation, Spell Your Name is a feature-length documentary about the Holocaust in Ukraine.
Bukovsky crafted the film using Ukrainian and Russian-language testimonies from the USC Shoah Foundation Institute archive and new footage shot on location in Ukraine. The film director takes the viewer on a journey of discovery as he and several Ukrainian students absorb the testimony of local people who escaped brutal execution and those who rescued friends and neighbours during the Holocaust. A collection of men and women share the details of their experiences, and we are afforded a glimpse of modern day Ukraine: the ethnic stereotypes that continue to exist and the manner in which Post-Soviet society is dealing with the question of how to memorialize the sites where tens of thousands of Jewish families and others were executed and thrown into mass graves.
The screening will be followed by a panel discussion with Doris Bergen, Chancellor Rose and Ray Wolfe Professor in Holocaust Studies, Frank Sysyn, Canadian Institute of Ukrainian Studies, and Yuri Shevchuk, the Ukrainian Film Club’s director.
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