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The Stanford Ukrainian Studies Program presents:

A Kingdom Reborn: Treasures from Ukrainian Galicia (Canada/Ukraine, 2007,
57 mins)
U.S. PREMIERE

Screening with film director and producer Danielle Stodilka and film writer
Peter Bejger.

Thursday, May 29th
7:00 pm - 8:30 pm
Cubberley Auditorium


This film brings to life one of the legendary cities and regions of Central
Europe. Lviv is the capital city of the medieval principality Galicia,
whose architectural monuments and artistic treasures offer an exquisite
blending of the Byzantine and Latin aesthetic. This documentary presents
interviews with museum curators, historians and icon painters who reveal
masterpieces that have miraculously survived repeated wars and disasters.

The CREEES Spring Film Festival presents:

Import/Export (dir. Ulrich Seidl, Austria, 2007)

Friday, May 30th
7:00 p.m.
Cubberley Auditorium

Film introduced by Jessie Labov, Comparative Literature, Stanford.  Light
refreshments served.

The film examines the fate of two individuals moving in opposite directions. Olga, a nurse from Ukraine, abandons her family to look for a better life in the West and ends up working as a cleaning woman in a geriatric ward in
Austria. Paul, an unemployed security guard from Vienna, is looking a reason to get up in the mornings and heads East with his stepfather, ending up in the Ukraine. They are two  young people on the move, eager to start a new life, confronted with a rough reality.