“Silver Apricot for Serhiy Bukovsky”

July 19, 2009, Yerevan,  Armenia.

Serhyi Bukovsky with Polish film maker Dagmara Drzazga at press-conference in Yerevan, July 18, 2009

Serhiy Bukovsky was awarded the Silver Apricot Special Prize at the Sixth Yerevan International Film Festival for his feature documentary “The Living.” The film is about the Holodomor, the genocidal famine, organized against Ukrainian peasantry by the Bolsheviks in 1932-1933. The UFCCU organized the US (December 2, 2008) and Canadian (March 5, 2009) premiers of the film and also screened it at Harvard, Stanford and other venues).
Said Mr. Bukovsky on the press-conference in Yerevan, “… When making the film we set two tasks before ourselves: the first one was to present the tragedy, which happened in Ukraine in 1933 in the European and world context. The second one, essentially, was more personal.” He noted that though the word ‘genocide’ is not mentioned in the film and he does not claim the events of 1933 to be internationally defined as such, these events were indeed a genocide...”
Serhiy Bukovsky has been a supporter of our Film Club since its establishment in 2004. In December 2008, he became the UFCCU’s honorary member. We extend our enthusiastic congratulations to him on the occasion of this important award and wish him many more great films in the future. Mnohaia lita, dorhyi Serhiyu! on behalf of all you fans in North America.