Virtually every cinema in the city is helping host parts of the 34th annual Molodist International Film Festival: there'll be Russian movies at Zhovten, French and Indian movies at Ukraina, a Ulrike Ottinger retrospective at Kinopanorama plus lots more, and it all starts Oct. 24... BC Kyiv is fired up, and they take to the hardwood against MBC Odesa at the Sports Palace Oct. 23... and be sure to enjoy Italian conductor Giancarlo de Lorenzo as he guides the National Philharmonic Symphony Orchestra at the National Philharmonic Oct. 25.
m 0cm 0pt”>Ukrainian Super League action returns to the Sports Palace with the home team hosting league rivals MBC Odesa. Kyiv hammered MBC Nikolayiv last week 106-72, thanks to some excellent defense and lots of fast-break points. Look for them to do the same thing this weekend, only with even better results.
Sports Palace (1 Sportyvna, 246-7406). 2 p.m. Tickets Hr 10.
SUNDAY 24
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FILM FESTIVAL: French Film Day.
The French Embassy presents films timed with this year’s International Molodist Film Festival. Seven films will be shown, among them “The Exiles,” a story about a few unlucky souls trying to find themselves; in “The Most Intimate Confidence,” a woman reveals her deepest secrets to a man posing as a psychologist; and “The Triple Agent” is a spy thriller about a Russian emigre to Paris, set in pre-World War II France.
Ukraina cinema (5 Horodetskoho, 229-6301). All films begin at 7 p.m. Tickets Hr 20 to Hr 46.
FILM FESTIVAL: A Collection of Indian Films.
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The Indian Embassy in Ukraine introduces a major film festival, also timed to coincide with the Molodist Festival. Five films will be shown, starting with “From All My Heart,” which follows a half-Indian, half-Italian man who leaves India and finds love abroad; “Chandni” is a classic Bollywood romance about love at first sight; the visual spectacle “The Love Chariot” is a crime thriller with comedy throughout, but no spoken lines; “Retribution” is an uplifting comedy about two photographers just beginning their work, and closing out the festival will be “Anjali,” the story of how a happy family deals with terminal illness.
Ukraina cinema (5 Horodetskoho, 229-6301). All films begin at 9 p.m. Tickets Hr 30 to Hr 40.
NEW FILMS: New Russian Cinema.
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From Russia, with love (presumably): Our northern neighbors present six new films to be shown at that student hangout, Zhovten. The ones to watch for include “My Step-brother Frankenstein,” a dramatic probe into the war in Chechnya; “Masha,” set in Paris, in which a female romance novelist is visited by her young daughter, who changes her life; and “About Love,” a Czech love story directed by Sergey Solovev. Also playing will be “Remote Access,” directed by Svetlana Prosyrkina, and “Russian,” a film adaptation of the trilogy by author Eduard Limonov.
Zhovten cinema (26 Konstaninivska, 417-2702). All films begin at 7:30 p.m. Tickets Hr 10 to Hr 25.
FILM RETROSPECTIVE: Ulrike Ottinger.
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Provocative German filmmaker and photographer Ulrike Ottinger has been at it for more than 30 years. She’s produced such standouts as “Twelve Chairs,” which debuted at the 2004 International Berlinale Film Festival, and “Southeast Passage,” which was partly filmed in Ukraine (as well as other Eastern European countries). “Twelve Chairs” will be part of her Kyiv retrospective (obviously), as will “Ticket of No Return” (1979), “Johanna d’Arc of Mongolia” (1989), “Freak Orlando” (1981) and “Dorian Gray in the Mirror of the Yellow Press” (1984).
Kinopanorama (19 Shota Rustaveli, 490-7060). All films start at 8 p.m. Free admission.
MONDAY 25
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CLASSICAL MUSIC: Giancarlo de Lorenzo.
Since 1992, young Italian conductor Giancarlo de Lorenzo has been director of the Vox Aurae Orchestra in Breschia, Italy and tours continuously at home and abroad. He is enthusiastically celebrated by all who experience his work due to his masterful and emotionally engaging conducting style. In Kyiv he’ll conduct the Ukrainian National Symphony Orchestra in works by Rymsky-Korsakov and Schubert. National Philharmonic (2 Volodymyrsky Uzviz, 228-1697). 7 p.m. Tickets Hr 3 to Hr 12.
