Film Screening: "Ivan Ta Marta" - Instytut Pileckiego

A film about the legendary Ukrainian movement ‘Sixties’, unfulfilled dreams and the power of love

Ivan Ta Marta. A film about the legendary Ukrainian movement ‘Sixties’, unfulfilled dreams and the power of love

Opening Speech by the director Oleksandr Snytsia + Film Screening + Panel Talk with Eva Yakubovska and Patryk Szostak 

26.02, 18.00 | Pariser Platz 4A, 10117 Berlin | Registration: https://forms.gle/8q5gYCeyck3Bxt8a9

The event is presented as part of the international exhibition dedicated to Vasyl Stus and this year’s Cafe Kyiv, highlighting questions of freedom, cultural resilience, and the continuity of Ukrainian intellectual resistance. It will open with a speech by the film’s director, Oleksandr Synytsia, followed by the screening and a panel discussion with Eva Yakubovska and Patryk Szostak.

The film offers an intimate portrait of the literary critic and dissident Ivan Dziuba, a key figure of the Ukrainian Sixtiers movement, initiator of the protest at the premiere of Shadows of Forgotten Ancestors, and author of Internationalism or Russification? Through the voice of his wife Marta, the film reveals their 62-year partnership, shaped by loyalty, love, and courage under continuous KGB pressure.