First Ukrainian Film Festival opens in Los Angeles

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The official opening of the First Ukrainian Film Festival took place in Beverly Hills. The grand opening took place at the Laemmle Music cinema. People’s Artist of Ukraine Mikhail Illyenko, People’s Artist of Ukraine Larisa Kadochnikova, Odessa film expert and TV host Yevhen Zhenin, film critic and screenwriter Sergey Trymbach walked along the red carpet.
At the entrance to the hall, the audience was greeted by girls in national Ukrainian costumes, treating the audience with vodka and black bread with bacon.
According to the organizer of the festival, film producer with Odessa roots Anatoly Fraydis, the festival will continue until May 14. The program will include 20 Ukrainian films - from the Soviet period to modern ones.

It will feature 16 fiction films, as well as two non-gaming classic tapes created during the Soviet period by the them. Alexander Dovzhenko and the Odessa Film Studio.

In addition, contemporary Russian paintings “The Tribe” by Miroslav Slaboshpitsky, “Brothers. The Last Confession ”by Victoria Trofimenko and Mikhail Ilyenko’s“ Passing Through the Fire ”.

Films will be shown in their original language with English subtitles.

“We chose exactly those films that will introduce viewers to Ukrainian cinema, from its origins to those films that are already appreciated in Europe and are modern,” Fridis promised the Forum.

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Due to the illness of the wife of director Roman Balayan, who was supposed to open the festival with his film, changes were made to the program and two other films were shown to the guests. Thus, the festival was opened by the films “The One Who Walked Through the Fire”, directed by Mikhail Ilyenko, who was present at the opening, and the previously promised “Flights in Dreams and in Reality” - by Roman Balayan, who could not come.

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After the opening, the guests and the official delegation from Ukraine went to the after-party.

Festival program can be found there.
Let us remind you that simultaneously with the main program of the festival, screenings of “Young Cinema of Ukraine” will be held.

In a programme:
May 11 at 10:00 RM - “The Time When I Wrote Poems”
May 12 at 9:30 RM - “Shadows of Unforgotten Ancestors”
May 13 at 9:30 pm - “Black Book of Maidan”
All films will be shown in Ukrainian with English subtitles. Ticket prices: $15 and $12 for seniors.