CINEMA CALENDAR
October 7
The Editorial Office
Attending Q&A: Roman Bondarchuk
Regal Essex Crossing, 7PM
Yura, working at a local nature museum, looking for a rare species, witnesses an arson in the forest. He brings the photos to a local newspaper, and gets a job there. With his new profession it dawns to him that the reality around him is a far cry from what is written in the newspaper.
October 8
Viktor
Attending Q&A: Olivier Sarbil
Regal Times Square, 7PM
Viktor, a young Deaf man in Kharkiv, watches warily during the early days of the Russian invasion of Ukraine. A fan of samurai films and raised on stories of war, he dreams of becoming a warrior but is repeatedly denied when he tries to enlist. Eager to find purpose, Viktor embarks on a quest to find his place in the midst of a war he cannot hear.
October 10
The EUKrainian
Co-presented with International Film Festival Manhattan
Directed by Viktor Nordenskiöld
LOOK Dine-In Cinema, 8:15PM
While her nation is fighting for its survival – her task is to give that survival a meaning when peace comes. Olha Stefanishyna is ”THE EUKRAINIAN” – a young minister with the almost insurmountable task of bringing her country into the EU.
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October 13
U are the Universe
Attending Q&A: Pavlo Ostrikov
Regal Union Square, 7PM
After Earth explodes, a lonely Ukrainian space trucker Andriy remained the only survivor until a French scientist, Catherine, appears on the radio. Despite all the obstacles, Andriy decides to see her.
October 14
KISFF Shorts – Contours of Ukraine
Attending Q&A: Sasha Prokopenko
Quad Cinema, 7PM
Together with the Kyiv International Short Film Festival, we are presenting a program featuring emerging Ukrainian filmmakers.
This program is an attempt to reflect on our connection to home. Here, Ukraine emerges not only as a territory but as a metaphysical space that unites us culturally, historically, and politically. These films explore how, suspended in temporality and fragility, we rediscover and expand the notion of home – growing from the size of a room to encompass the whole of Ukraine, becoming a space of memory, struggle, and shared responsibility.
October 21
LINOLEUM Shorts
Attending Q&A: Anna Ihnatova
Quad Cinema, 7PM
Together with the LINOLEUM Contemporary Animation and Media Art Festival, we are presenting a program of Ukrainian Animation Short Films.
October 23
2000 Meters to Andriivka
Attending Q&A: Mstyslav Chernov
Regal Union Square, 7PM
Amid the failing counteroffensive, a journalist follows a Ukrainian platoon on their mission to traverse one mile of heavily fortified forest and liberate a strategic village from Russian occupation. But the farther they advance through their destroyed homeland, the more they realize that this war may never end.
October 25
Kyiv to LA
Curated by Asha Bukojemsky, with artist Q&A
E-flux Screening Room, 7PM
Kyiv to LA presents Swamps, Steppes and Souvenirs, a program of short films that explores the vastness of Ukraine’s ecology and the powers- both real and imagined- that have shaped its landscape. The one-night screening will feature six short films by Ukrainian artists Daryna Mamaisur, Oleksiy Radynski, Darya Tsymbalyuk, and the ruїns collective (Teta Tsybulnyk and Elias Parvulesco).
The program is organized by Kyiv to LA curator Asha Bukojemsky and hosted by UCF. Kyiv to LA is a cross-cultural initiative that invites Ukrainian artists, researchers, and art historians to participate in a Los Angeles-based residency and public program that explores the topics of environment, borders, and shared spaces.
October 28
Fragments of Ice
Quad Cinema, 7PM
Fragments of Ice is a documentary essay woven from a rare family VHS archive of a Soviet Ukrainian Ballet on Ice star. As his daughter, Maria rediscovers the videotaped intimate family moments and her father’s foreign tours from the 80s and ’90s, a clash between the utopian vision of the West and the oppressive Soviet reality unfolds. By telling the complex historical events of the collapse of the USSR and the restoration of Ukraine’s independence through a personal story, the film offers a nuanced exploration of resilience, identity, and hope — up to the present day.
October 30
My Dear Theo
Attending Q&A: Alisa Kovalenko
Quad Cinema, 7PM
In a series of letters to her young son, a mother, soldier and filmmaker documents her thoughts from the Ukrainian frontline. A deeply moving and existential film of unimaginable courage.
