"Shadows of Forgotten Ancestors," an immersive music and light experience, will fill the Adams Theater on July 1 and 2, bringing together over 20 musicians with a video projection work
Documentary about the life of Sergei Parajanov, a prominent Soviet-era filmmaker who was active in Ukraine, Georgia and Armenia and was persecuted by the communist government for his views on the pretext of his homosexuality, which was a crime in the USSR. The centerpiece of this documentary is Shadows of Forgotten Ancestors, a 1965 movie directed by Parajanov, that awakened the Ukrainian national consciousness which had been suppressed by decades of Soviet rule.
The Ukrainian Institute, together with the Ministry of Foreign Affairs and the NGO Wikimedia Ukraine, will hold the international information campaign "the Ukrainian Cultural Diplomacy Month" for the third time, the press service of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs reported on Wednesday.