Made in partnership with the Ukrainian Institute and H.S. Pshenychnyi Central State Film, Photo and Sound Archive of Ukraine
’10 Things Everyone Should Know About Ukraine’ brings to life familiar and yet unknown stories about Ukraine. Ten short films [just over an hour in total] tell about famous figures, historical and cultural events in Ukraine, and invite to see Ukraine of ХІХ-ХХI in the local and world contexts.
Intro: 10 Things Everyone Should Know About Ukraine
Taras Shevchenko: The Serf Who Founded a Nation
Lesia Ukrainka: Fin-de-siècle Ukrainian Feminism
Why Do Ukrainians Take To The Streets?
Les Kurbas: Ukrainian Avant-Garde Theatre
Fighting for the Self: Poetry from the Gulag
Holodomor: The Ukrainian Famine of the 1930s
Ukrainian Cinema: Giving a Voice to the Silenced
The Bloodlands: Ukraine in World War II
Andrei Sheptytskyi: A Count Who Became a Priest