Registration REQUIRED by 4pm on January 28, 2025 in order to attend this event.
Please join the Ukrainian Film Club of Columbia University for a special screening and discussion of “La Palisiada” (director Pylyp [Philip] Sotnychenko, 2024), Ukraine’s 2025 entry for the Academy Awards in the Best Foreign Language Film category. The film will be introduced by Yuri Shevchuk, who will moderate the post-screening discussion.
This police drama takes place in Ukraine in 1996. Five months before the moratorium on the death penalty, two old friends, a police detective and a forensic psychiatrist, investigate a murder of their colleague. Variety states, “This 1996-set noir of sorts chronicles a pivotal moment in Ukrainian history by focusing on a murder investigation. But as its two leads burrow themselves in the hunt for the guilty party, their journey turns out to be as dirtied and disorienting as the very systems from which the former Soviet country was weening itself, just a few years after their independence. […] Here is a tale not just of violence but the root of that violence, and its continued consequences.”
