A Rising Fury

Screening w/ Filmmaker Q&A

A Rising Fury

Lesya Kalynska + Ruslan Batytskyi (Dir), 83 minutes, Ukraine/USA, Western New York Premiere

Closing Night Gala

Director Lesya Kalynska and Producer TJ Collins in attendance.

Following two young Ukrainian idealists from the peaceful protest in Kyiv in 2013, to the full-scale Russian invasion of the Ukraine in 2022, Pavlo and Svitlana met and fell in love at the Maidan Revolution and were filmed over 8 years, with several expeditions to the frontlines of the war.

In Ukrainian and English, with English subtitles.