Documentary Screenings: Two Guto Pasko Films

Screening of the Documentary Film: Entre Nós, O Estranho (Among Us, the Stranger)
Date and Time: Tuesday, 26 September 2023, 7:00 p.m.
Venue: Telus Centre 150 (111 St & 87 Ave NW, Edmonton)
The screening of the film will be followed by a Q&A with Brazilian filmmaker Guto Pasko

About the Film:
This 83-minute-long documentary (Portuguese and Ukrainian with English subtitles) concerns the municipality of Prudentópolis, which is in the Brazilian state of Paraná. Ukrainian immigrants from the Austrian crown land of Galicia settled in the region from the mid-1890s and today it is estimated that approximately 75% of the municipality’s 53,000 inhabitants have some degree of Ukrainian ancestry. This documentary depicts the themes of interactions between the Ukrainians and non-Ukrainians and the process of acculturation.

Screening of the Documentary Film: Aldeia Natal (Native Village)
Date and Time: Wednesday, 27 September 2023, 7:00 p.m.
Venue: Telus Centre 150 (111 St & 87 Ave NW, Edmonton)
The screening of the film will be followed by a Q&A with Brazilian filmmaker Guto Pasko

About the Film:
Filmmaker Guto Pasko was born into a family of descendants of Ukrainian immigrants in the southern Brazilian state of Paraná. He left home at the age of eleven and maintained a distance from his birthplace for the next thirty years. Religious and cultural reasons were the source of the detachment. In this 98-minute-long film (Portuguese and Ukrainian with English subtitles), Pasko takes us into a journey of reconnection with his past in Queimadas, municipality of Prudentópolis, Paraná, and, through a visit paid to Ukraine with his parents, with ancestral roots.

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