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New York film festival with a focus on Ukrainian and post-Soviet film, to be held March 16-20 2011. The Belarusian film day is March 19th.
Kinofest NYC is a film festival that celebrates independent cinema from Ukraine and other post-Soviet countries. A new voice in the New York cinema community, Kinofest NYC brings New Yorkers an intriguing look at independent film coming from these new countries that sit on the eastern border of continental Europe. 
Vacation
In this youth drama set in an anonymous Belarusian industrial suburb, two alienated and lonely teens, Olga and Sergei fall in love then fantasize escaping their dead-end, full of teen alcoholism and meaningless violence surroundings. The two young lovers soon have to face the stark fact that their options are limited.
Director: Vladimir Kozlov, 60 min, Russian (with English subtitles), Belarus, 2010.
Preceded by the film shorts - 
Obstacle
Dreamlike short narrative shows schoolchildren on the verge of puberty playact, foreshadowing budding sexuality. Eroticism mixed with innocent, playful fantasy. Director: Maksym Bunitsky, 9 min, Ukrainian (with English subtitles), Ukraine. 
Adam and Eve
This visually stunning documentary depicts the daily hardscrabble existence of a group of coal miners and their supportive wives in one eastern Ukrainian mine. Several claustrophobia-inducing shots reveal to viewers the narrow shafts 300 feet below ground then pulls us up to sunlight via a rickety, antiquated pulley system. Director: Murat Mamedov, 22 min, Russian (with English subtitles), Ukraine, 2006. 
Hush City (film official website)
An experimental multi-media online project using text and stills which tells a personal story set within the city of Minsk, Belarus over 4 seasons. Screening the first season, Autumn. Director: Ilya Andreyev, 8 min, English text, Belarus, 2008.
$10 admission.  For more information please visit Kinofest NYC and Ukrainian Museum in NY websites. See you there ;) |
