Ukrainian Cinema: In Spring

Devoid of intertitles, IN SPRING literally examines life from the ground up, spiraling out from the soil itself to the modern machines used to cultivate it and the society it sustains.

For the film historian Georges Sadoul, the film “made us discover a completely new form of documentary cinema, a cine-poem, where the lyrical theme of thaw and swelling buds conveyed the pathos of the advancement of the USSR towards building socialism without concealing the still existing remnants of the past.” As in the best Soviet-era films, the clamor and color of daily life are marshaled to illustrate Stalinist ideology, but they also transcend its confines, leaving a fecund portrait of a vanished society. (Chicago Film Society)

The presentation will be preceded by an intro from the Chicago Film Society.

Tickets for regular film presentations are $12, with Film Center members paying only $6 per ticket. Students with valid school ID pay $7, and SAIC students, staff, or faculty pay $5 for regular film presentations.

Ten percent of the ticket sales for all films in this series will be donated to Voices of Children, a Ukrainian-based non profit which provides art therapy for children–and is currently providing emergency psychological aid and assistance in the evacuation process to Ukrainian children and families affected by full-scale Russian invasion of Ukraine.