Klondike screening and Q&A | Ukrainian film festival 2024
Date and time:
Thursday 19 September, 2024
18:15 - 20:00
Location:
Curzon Soho
99 Shaftesbury Avenue
London
W1D 5DY
19 September 2024 | 6:20pm
Director: Maryna Er Gorbach
Genre: Drama Year: 2022 Duration: 100 min
Language: Ukrainian with English subtitles
Age rating: 18+
July 2014. Expectant parents Irka and Tolik live in the Donetsk region of eastern Ukraine near the Russian border, disputed territory in the early days of the Donbas war. Their nervous anticipation of their first child’s birth is violently disrupted by the nearby crash of flight MH17, which elevates the forbidding tension enveloping their village. The looming wreckage of the downed airliner, and an incoming parade of mourners, emphasise the surreal trauma of the moment. As Tolik’s separatist friends expect him to join their efforts, Irka’s brother is enraged by suspicions that the couple has betrayed Ukraine. Irka refuses to be evacuated even as the village gets captured by armed forces, and she tries to make peace between her husband and brother by asking them to repair their bombed house.
Followed by a Q&A with the actress Oksana Cherkashyna.
See the full Ukrainian film festival 2024: Reflections.
We will take photos and videos during the event. Unless you let us know otherwise, we might share them on the Ukrainian Institute London’s website and social media channels.
