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Film Screening with introduction by
Iryna Tsilyk, Director of Rock Paper Grenade [Я і Фелікс, 2022] and The Earth is Blue as an Orange [Земля блакитна, ніби апельсин, 2020]
Moderated by Oleh Kotsyuba, Director of Print and Digital Publications at the Ukrainian Research Institute, Harvard University
In Ukrainian with English subtitles
About the Film:
The long-awaited feature film debut of acclaimed Ukrainian documentary film director, Iryna Tsilyk, will be released in Ukraine next month, in April 2024. Rock Paper Grenade [Я і Фелікс, 2020, 92 mins] is a coming-of-age story set in Ukraine in the 1990s. The film is about the first lessons of kindness and cruelty, teenage love, the search for a mentor, and difficult relationships between children and adults. At the center of the film are Tymofiy, a boy in a provincial town, and Felix, a veteran of the Afghan war who is broken by PTSD. Rock Paper Grenade is the film adaptation of the autobiographical novel, Who are you? by Artem Chekh, a Ukrainian writer and member of the armed forces. It is a poignant story about the generation of people who were teenagers in the 1990s.
Official Trailer >>
Film Website >>
About the Speaker:
Iryna Tsilyk is a Ukrainian filmmaker and writer, based in Kyiv. She is the director of the award-winning documentary film The Earth is Blue as an Orange, which won the “Directing Award: World Cinema Documentary” at the Sundance Film Festival in 2020 and numerous other honors. Well-known as a documentary filmmaker, Iryna's first fictional, feature-length film is Rock Paper Grenade [Я і Фелікс], which first premiered at the Warsaw Film Festival in 2022 and will be released in Ukraine in April 2024. Iryna is also the author of several children's books and collections of poetry and prose. Her poems, short stories, and essays have been translated into multiple languages and have appeared widely in international publications, literary festivals, and events.
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