The Department of Russian and Slavic Studies invites all RSSS majors, minors, graduate students, and friends of the department to join us for a celebration of student achievement as we close the Spring 2022 semester. In addition to giving out student awards, we will also be watching a recent film from Ukraine. Light refreshments will be served.
Tuesday April 26
5:00-5:30 Awards
5:30-7:00 Film Screening
Location: ILC 130
Film: Julia Blue (dir. Roxy Toporowych, 2018, Ukraine, 90 min, with English subtitles) About the film: Set in 2015 Ukraine and shot on location, Julia Blue is a modern love story. Inspired to study photography by the protests she witnessed in Kyiv during the 2014 revolution, Julia applies to study at a prestigious school in Germany. In the meantime, Julia volunteers at a military hospital for injured soldiers returning from the conflict in Eastern Ukraine. Julia meets "English" who has arrived with easily-mended surface wounds and deeply-set emotional scarring. A relationship emerges that draws the two of them closer together, but each has withheld something vital from the other. When Julia decides to bring English home for a family wedding, the cost of their secrets threatens more than their relationship.
