The Petro Jacyk Program at the Centre for European, Russian and Eurasian Studies at the University of Toronto is proud to host a screening of the 2013 film “Haytarma,” the first cinematic work that depicts the deportation of the Crimean Tatars from their homeland on May 18, 1944. Drawing on the story of Amet-Khan Sultan, the Crimean Tatar fighter pilot who became a Hero of the Soviet Union for his service to the Red Army, the film is the first narrative feature-length production to be produced by Crimean Tatars in Crimea. In Russian and Crimean Tatar, with English subtitles. Maria Sonevytsky will provide brief introductory remarks.