Please join BVFCC for an evening to benefit Stand with Ukraine Through Film. We will be screening Ukraine’s 2014 Academy Awards submission, The Guide. The idea for this event was brought to us by BVFCC member and Ukrainian American, Maria Brandiff. Maria will be speaking after the screening about her family and experience in Ukraine. Suggested ticket price is $25. All proceeds from the screening will be donated to Stand with Ukraine Through Film.
Since its launch in March 2022, Stand with Ukraine through Film has arranged for The Guide to be shown in almost 700 cinemas across the United States and in Australia, Canada, and Netherlands. The project has raised more than $150,000 to help the Ukrainian people.
About the film:
Director: Oles Sanin
Run Time: 122 min.
Release Year: 2014
Language: Ukrainian with English subtitles
Starring: Anton Sviatoslav Greene, Jamala, Oleksandr Kobzar, Stanislav Boklan, Іrina Sanіna
Early 1930s. Peter is a ten-year-old boy in the midst of turbulent Soviet Ukraine. His father, an American engineer, is killed for obtaining secret documents about the repressions, which now are hidden in Peter’s book. The boy flees from the police with a blind kobzar (Ukrainian folk minstrel), Ivan Kocherga. Ivan does everything to help his young guide to grow up and survive with a kind and clear soul that will not be hardened by what his eyes have seen. He tells his young guide elaborate stories that make him believe there can be a different reality from what he sees around him. We are challenged to admit the blind kobzar may see the world with greater clarity than those with perfect eyes.
All proceeds will go directly to Stand With Ukraine Through Film (https://www.standwithukrainethroughfilm.org/) to support Ukraine.
You can watch a trailer for the film HERE.