Film Night for Ukrainian Independence Day

Perth Film Society is proud to be supporting this event, which has been billed as the only such celebration in Scotland!

Starting at 19:30 on 24 August 2024, PFS will be screening Ukrainian films in the Joan Knight Studio, Perth Theatre.

After a short introduction by PKC Councillor Steven Carr (Dnipro kids), we will screen a recorded message from multi-award winning Ukrainian screenwriter and film director Olga Niekrasova who moved to Edinburgh from Kyiv in 2022, before screening 2 of her short films.

VALISE (2023) centres on a 7-year-old child who is trying to recapture memories by packing them into his suitcase in case he needs to flee his home and become a refugee. Memories are something he will never be compensated with (approx 7 mins).

SHADOWS (2023) is dedicated to the deportation of Ukrainian children by the Russians, and it is the dramatic story of the forced separation of a mother and her 10-year-old daughter (approx 13 min)

At about 20:00 we will screen our feature, the award winning 2022 Ukrainian action thriller Pamfir.

When reformed smuggler Pamfir returns home to his village on the western Ukrainian border after working abroad for several years, he’s determined to earn an honest living and set a good example for his beloved teenage son Nazar. But in a town where corruption runs deep and crime and religion are inextricably linked, his plan is thwarted when Nazar sets fire to the local church in a misguided effort to keep his father at home. To pay for the damage, Pamfir must take on one last job for a crime syndicate operating a risky smuggling venture in a place where all the rules have changed.

Part drama, part thriller, part fairytale, Pamfir is at times violent, raw and bloody, but it is also a tender portrait of a family man trying to raise his son properly despite his own shady past. The film is set in the run up to the traditional ‘Malanka’ carnival — a wild pagan festival featuring straw costumes, wooden masks and centuries-old rites and traditions. It is a genre-defying multi-award winning debut by director Dmytro Sukholytkyy-Sobchuk, which explores the thin line between good and evil, and fate vs free will, in our complex modern world.

Certificate 15, 106 mins, Ukrainian (with English subtitles)

£7
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