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April 22-26, 2009
As a sign of recognition for the Ukrainian Film Club of Columbia University and the work it has done promoting Ukrainian film internationally and building contacts between Ukrainian filmmakers and their colleagues worldwide, Yuri Shevchuk, the Club’s founding director was invited to serve as member of the Jury at the International Documentary Film Festival Crossroads of Europe in the city of Lublin, Poland, April 22-26, 2009.
This relatively small but ambitious film forum holds competition in two genres: feature documentary and documentary shorts. Over the years since its inception in 1999, it has gained popularity in Poland, Europe, and beyond. This year the participating films were from Poland, Ukraine, Lithuania, Belarus, Estonia, the Czech Republic, Germany, Israel, Spain, and other countries. The mission of the Crossroads of Europe (in Polish Rozstaje Europy) to promote intercultural dialog in Europe through film, harmonizes with the mandate of the Ukrainian Film Club of Columbia University. On many occasions the Festival has included Ukrainian film in its programs and served as a much needed European forum for it. Retrospectives of Ukrainian film were held in the passed years. Jerzy Hoffman’s four-part documentary “Ukraine. The Birth of a Nation” got a special screening here in 2008.
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