Registration REQUIRED by 4pm on April 8, 2025 in order to attend this event.

Please join the Ukrainian Film Club at the Harriman Institute for a screening of “A Rising Fury,” followed by a discussion with the film director Lesya Kalynska and producer TJ Collins. The post-screening discussion will be moderated by Yuri Shevchuk.

“A Rising Fury” follows two hopeful Ukrainian idealists from the initially peaceful protest in Kyiv in 2013 to the full-scale Russian invasion of Ukraine in 2022. Pavlo and Svitlana met and fell in love during the Maidan Revolution and were filmed over nearly 10 years with several expeditions to the front lines of the war. When Russia invaded Crimea and Donbas in 2014, Pavlo lost his family home and joined the Ukrainian Armed Forces. To defend his nation, he engages in deadly firefights against former friends and a close military instructor who joined the Russian forces. As Svitlana transports food and medical supplies, both find themselves on the battle lines, protecting their land, democracy, and their relationship. It’s a story of love, revolution, betrayal, and war told mostly through intimate verité material. The film reveals that Russia’s war against Ukraine was prepared by Russia as far back as 2007 and began in 2014 with the annexation of Crimea and the invasion of Donbas.

In Ukrainian and Russian with English subtitles.