Registration REQUIRED by 4pm on September 23, 2025 in order to attend this event.
Please join the Ukrainian Film Club at Columbia University for a screening and discussion of the historical drama “The Oxygen Station,” 2023, directed by Ivan Tymchenko and produced by Svitlana Soloviova. Yuri Shevchuk will introduce the film and moderate the post-screening discussion.
1980, USSR. The Crimean Tatar human rights activist and political prisoner Mustafa Jemilev is exiled to the settlement Zyryanka in Siberia. There he is compelled to work at an oxygen station. Three people are headed toward him across the huge Soviet empire with vastly different goals – to meet, to destroy, and to protect. They are driven by love, hatred, and faith.
Ivan Tymchenko was born in Kyiv, Ukraine, where he studied at the Faculty of Journalism of Taras Shevchenko National University. After graduating in 2002 he worked as a photojournalist. In 2009 he switched to filmmaking and worked as a DOP and then as a director. His debut feature drama “Beshoot” (2019), which got mainly positive reviews, was in wide theatrical and TV release in Ukraine and was sold internationally. It was screened at the Ukrainian Film Club at Columbia University with the director and producer Svitlana Solovieva in attendance.
Svitlana Soloviova was born in Kyiv, Ukraine, where she got education of the cultural study at the Kyiv-Mohyla Academy. Since 2004 she has worked in film production. She is a founder and general producer of the film production company Svitlofor Film based in Kyiv. She has produced number of short films and one feature film. Her portfolio includes projects with BBC (UK), MTV Networks Europe, MTV EXIT, Broadview TV (Germany), Paperny Entertainment (Canada) and others. She attended ACE Training Days Poland 2021 and WEMW 2022 I VOD For Producers.
