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CANCELLED: Film Screening & Discussion. “Eastern Front”

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Registration REQUIRED by 4pm on February 13, 2025 in order to attend this event.

Please join the Ukrainian Film Club at Columbia University for a screening and discussion of “Eastern Front,” by directors Vitaly Mansky and Yevhen Titarenko, 2023.

On February 24, 2022, Yevhen, together with his friends, volunteered to join “The Hospitallers,” a volunteer medical battalion operating on the front line of the Russian aggression against Ukraine. They provided life-saving support and evacuation of the wounded. This film reveals the experiences of these young men for six months full of drama, despair, fear, hatred, bitterness, love, and, most importantly, faith in victory.

Vitaly Mansky was born in Lviv in what is now Ukraine in 1963. He studied at the Gerasimov Institute of Cinematography in Moscow. As a director, he has made over 30 films which have screened and won awards at festivals around the world. He is the founder and was for many years the director of Artdocfest, a festival for experimental Russian-language documentary films. In 2022, the festival ceased its activities due to Russian censorship and the war against Ukraine. Since 2014, he has lived in Riga in Latvia where he founded the international documentary film festival Artdocfest Riga.

Yevhen Titarenko was born in Odesa, Ukraine in 1988. He studied film and television directing at the Mykolaychuk Institute of Visual Arts. Between 2012 and 2014, he ran a production company and film school in Crimea. When Russia annexed the peninsula in 2014, he went to the frontline as a documentary filmmaker. After being evacuated from Donetsk airport in February 2022, he signed up as a volunteer for the Hospitallers medical battalion.

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