Screening times:
Friday, April 15, 7:00 PM - Half capacity socially-distanced screening
Saturday, April 16, 7:00 PM - Half capacity socially-distanced screening
Valentyn Vasyanovych | Ukraine | 2020 | 108m | Ukrainian with English subtitles
with Andriy Rymaruk, Liudmyla Bileka, Vasyl Antoniak, Lily Hyde, Philip Paul, Peter Hudson
A prize winner at the Venice Film Festival and Ukraine’s official selection for the 2021 Academy Awards, Valentyn Vasyanovych’s haunting and suddenly-prescient feature Atlantis envisions a Russian invasion of his country, and its aftermath.
Eastern Ukraine, 2025. A desert unsuitable for human habitation. Water is a dear commodity brought by trucks. A wall is being built on the border. Sergiy, a former soldier, is having trouble adapting to his new reality. He meets Katya while on the Black Tulip mission dedicated to exhuming the past. Together, they try to return to some sort of normal life in which they are also allowed to fall in love again.
"Naturally the film has emerged as one to watch during the present-day turbulence; such timeliness is eclipsed only by its visual splendor, further reflecting the ability of art to transmit by way of form in addition to content." -Kathleen Sachs, Chicago Reader
"...we’re fortunate to have artists like Vasyanovych to show us what’s dazzling, strange, tragic, comic, touching and eventually optimistic about the way forward." -Robert Abele, Los Angeles Times
Venice Horizons Award - Best Film - Venice Film Festival
Louve d'Or - Best Film - Montréal Festival of New Cinema
Best International Film - Jerusalem Film Festival
Tickets $8.75 online ($8 at the door if available). Available soon.
Half capacity
Half capacity
