Registration REQUIRED by 4pm on February 25, 2025 in order to attend this event.
Please join the Ukrainian Film Club at Columbia University for a screening and discussion of Roman Bondarchuk‘s 2024 film “The Editorial Office” (“Редакцiя”). The film will be introduced by Yuri Shevchuk, who will lead the post-screening Q&A session.
In the wild steppes of southern Ukraine, a young nature researcher named Yura is looking for an endangered species of groundhog but instead witnesses a crime. Eager to expose the truth, Yura takes his photo evidence to the local newspaper’s editorial office. However, he quickly realizes that nobody there cares about pursuing justice. While a big war is looming over the horizon, Yura’s native worldview is splintering in a storm of fake news, rigged political elections, and mysterious cult rituals. On his quest, the hero is about to find out who he really is—an endangered species of a good man or just a loser?
“The Editorial Office” is the second feature film from southern Ukraine by acclaimed director Roman Bondarchuk, known for his debut feature “Volcano” (2018) and the documentaries “Euromaidan. Rough Cut” (2014), “Ukrainian Sherrils” (2015), and “Dixie Land” (2016). “For me, cinema is a way of exploring the world. I’ve always been fascinated by and drawn to the south of Ukraine, which is not so well-described in literature of film; it’s a sort of no man’s land between Crimea and mainland Ukraine…”
