Dodik: a First Name or a Surname?
Film Screening: 4:25-5:25pm
Click below to live stream Dodik: A First Name or a Surname between 4:25-5:25pm before joining the Director Q+A at 5:30pm. Link to the Q+A included below.
This full-length Russian documentary features the story of Semyon Dodik, who survived in the ghetto, fought against Nazi Germany and became a man of dignity and respect. The film aims to fight xenophobia and fascism while teaching a lesson in tolerance.
Eighty-six-year-old Semyon Davidovitch Dodik, from the Ukrainian town of Bar in the Transnistria region, was imprisoned in the ghetto as a child. During the war, his entire family perished–only little Semyon miraculously managed to escape. Running away from the ghetto, he spent time in a partisan fighting unit and then joined the Soviet Red Army. After the war, Dodik graduated from university and worked at a scientific research institute in Moscow for many decades.
Q+A with the Director: 5:30-6:00pm
Zoom Link: https://us02web.zoom.us/j/82810790173
Professor Galina Evtushenko
Prof. Galina Evtushenko is a director and producer of documentary and feature films. She directed and produced more than 30 documentaries and two fiction films. She was a winner of highest Russian documentaries awards/ In October 2019 she was awarded be International Pushkin’s Prize in Rome.
As a filmmaker and scholar Evtushenko has participated in a number of international film festivals – in Greece, Germany, Ukraine, Poland, Hungary, Sweden, India, the USA, Canada, Brasil, and Israel, sometimes serving as a member of the jury at these festivals. She has also taken part in international forums and workshops in Munich, Ebeltoft, New York and Jerusalem.
Evtushenko is a member of the Russian Filmmaker’s Union, the Theatrical Union, and the International ICOM. She is currently a Professor at the Russian State University for the Humanities, where she has worked for more than 15 years. In 2018 she was in the United States as a Fulbright Scholar in the Documentary Studies Program in the Department of History at the University at Albany, State University of New York.