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Twelfth Annual Festival of Ukrainian Film - screening of 'Mr. Jones'

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Twelfth Annual Festival of Ukrainian Film - screening of ‘Mr. Jones’ (2019 film drama).

18.30, 22 November, 2019

The event is FREE and OPEN TO THE PUBLIC, butÌýÌýwill be REQUIRED.

Registration is now open atÌý°ÄÃÅÁùºÏ²Ê¿ª½±¼Ç¼ Ukrainian Studies.org. Please register only for the number of tickets you intend to use.

°ÄÃÅÁùºÏ²Ê¿ª½±¼Ç¼ Ukrainian Studies and °ÄÃÅÁùºÏ²Ê¿ª½±¼Ç¼ Polish Studies, in conjunction with HREC (Canada) and AUGB (UK) are pleased to announce that this year’s Twelfth Annual Festival of Ukrainian Film will feature the 2019 drama film ‘Mr. Jones’ directed by Agnieszka Holland and starring James Norton, Vanessa Kirby and Peter Sarsgaard. The film loosely tells the story of Gareth Jones, a °ÄÃÅÁùºÏ²Ê¿ª½±¼Ç¼ Graduate and Welsh journalist, who in 1933 broke the news in the western media of theÌýHolodomorÌý(death by starvation) - the man-made famine in the Soviet Union under Stalin. Jones unofficially travelled to Ukraine and risked his name and reputation to report on the Ukrainian genocide during which millions of people perished.

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