Film Screening & Discussion. Beshoot

Join the Ukrainian Film Club at Columbia University for the unofficial US premier of the 2019 military drama Beshoot, followed by a discussion with director Ivan Tymchenko and producer Svitlana Soloviova, moderated by Professor Yuri Shevchuk.

The soldiers of the Donbas Volunteer Battalion are at the center of this war drama inspired by real-life events. Two Ukrainian fighters who volunteered to repel the foreign aggression against their homeland are trying to get out of the Russian-surrounded Ilovaisk, a city in south-western Ukraine. Taras Kostanchuk, call sign “Beshoot”, was a real-life commander of a storm brigade in the Donbas battalion, and plays himself, the protagonist of the film.