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#StandWithUkraine - Benefit Cinema for Ukraine
Kassel's arthouse cinemas are showing solidarity with Ukraine: on March 25 at 8:15 p.m., a benefit event will be held at the Gloria Kino. The proceeds will be used to support those affected by the war in Ukraine.
The Ukrainian tragicomedy "My Thoughts Are Silent" (2019, Antonio Lukich) will be shown. As a supporting program, the Kassel arthouse cinema team has put together a collection of short films by filmmakers from Ukraine, Belarus and Moldova.
"My Thoughts Are Silent" is about the young sound engineer Vadym, who is supposed to record rare animals in the Carpathians for a new job. But then it turns out that his mother, of all people, will accompany him on this trip. The tragicomedy was voted one of the 20 best Ukrainian films last year and received the audience award at the Odessa International Film Festival. It will be shown in the original with English subtitles.
The short films are works by students and graduates of the Kunsthochschule Kassel: Oleksandra Krasavtseva was born in 1995 in the Ukrainian capital Kiev, first studied architecture there, and moved to Kassel in 2018 for her animation studies. Dumitru Mălai was born in 1987 in Chișinău, Republic of Moldova. He studied sociology in his hometown and in Kassel, Germany, and began studying visual communication in 2016. Maryna Miliushchanka, born in Belarus, studied first free art, then animation, and graduated in art in 2018 with a puppet animation film. Evgenia Gostrer was born in Voronezh, Russia in 1981 and came to Germany at the age of 15. She studied design in Munich and animation in Kassel, where she graduated in 2015. Her film "Cherry Bones" received the rating 'Especially Valuable'.
The entire team works on a voluntary basis and all proceeds go to filmmakers, as well as to aid organizations that support refugees in Kassel and people on the ground in Ukraine.
Tickets are available in advance and at the box office at Gloria Kino, Friedrich-Ebert-Straße 3, 34117 Kassel. Reservations are also possible by phone at 0561/710550 and online at balikinos.de. The entrance costs 8 euro. On site, there will also be further opportunities for donations. For refugees who want to attend the event, a soli pot will be set up to finance the tickets.
More info soon at balikinos.de and on Instagram: @filmladen_bali_gloria_kinos