Wednesday, March 27 at 7:00 PM; Free and open to the public; tickets available only at the Box Office.

Cinema Seminar: "Filmmaking in Times of War"
ROCK.PAPER.GRENADE | Directed by Iryna Tsilyk | NR | 92 mins | Ukrainian w/subs | 2022

SYNOPSIS: ROCK.PAPER.GRENADE tells the story of a young boy growing up in a shaky, post-Soviet Ukraine, who, looking for a mentor, befriends an Afghan war veteran. After the film, prominent Ukrainian intellectuals, award-winning filmmaker Iryna Tsilyk and Ivan Kozlenko, Amherst College visiting researcher and eminent former director of the Dovzhenko Center in Kyiv, will discuss working across modes of documentary, feature film, and animation, and adapting literary works to the screen.

This film program is part of our Cinema Seminars series, which invites audiences to take a deep dive into new and familiar film worlds. Designed as a communal and conversational experience, Cinema Seminars offer participants the opportunity to thoughtfully explore, engage and foster new understandings of the film form within historical and cultural contexts. Each seminar includes a talk and a film screening.