Golos: Ukrainian Voices to close LIFF

Dolya gavanski’s powerful and emotive documentary feature about Ukraine today GOLOS: Ukrainian Voices will be the closing film at this year’s LIFF.

Written, produced, co-directed and narrated by London-based actress and writer Dolya Gavanski, and with a haunting score by Alexander ‘Sacha’ Puttnam, the film provides a platform for people to be heard, as they share their memories of war away from the cacophony of political voices and mass media. The film will close the London Independent Film Festival on April 25th, at the Genesis Cinema. http://genesiscinema.co.uk/GenesisCinema.dll/WhatsOn?Film=2034181 and will open at the Arthouse Cinema, Crouch End on April 30th.

Gavanski, who is in her thirties, says: “As a Londoner used to the global mix of people and attitudes, I am moved – sometimes to sardonic laughter and sometime s to tears of fury – by the absurd and bloody politics of identity in post-Soviet Europe”. As Jack Nicholson’s character said in Mars Attacks!: ‘why can’t we all just get along?’”. Gavanski’s incredible personal story began as a seven year-old pioneer of Tito’s Yugoslavia. “I also recollect, in the tragic deaths in contemporary Ukraine, my own family history in Yugoslavia. I am the grandchild of a wartime girl courier, the type celebrated in Hemingway’s ‘For Whom the Bell Tolls’. My grandmother was to survive a prisoner-of-war camp where her father-in-law was starved to death, only to die in the 1990s of a heart attack as once again she listened to the sound of bombing in Belgrade,” she recalls.

www.golosthemovie.com