Film "The Trial: The State of Russia vs Oleg Sentsov"

The Ukrainian Museum222 East 6th Street(between 2nd Ave. & The Bowery)New York, New York 10003
$10 General admissionOrder tickets online at Eventbrite.
Ukrainian filmmaker and writer, Oleh Sentsov, best known for his 2011 film Gaamer, about a computer-game-obsessed Ukrainian teenager, which screened to great acclaim at the International Film Festival Rotterdam in 2012. Sentsov was arrested in Crimea on 11 May 2014, and later convicted to 20 years in jail by Russian court on charges of plotting terrorism acts. The filmmaker is a recipient of the 2017 PEN/Barbey Freedom to Write Award.
THE TRIALAugust 2015, a courtroom in Rostov-on-Don. A man is peering through the bars of his cage, his eyes reveal that his nerves are about to snap. Today he will be handed down a sentence to which he must submit: 20 years' imprisonment in Siberia for terrorism. The man is Oleg Sentsov, a film director and Maidan activist born in Simferopol, Ukraine. He is charged with leading an anti-Russian terrorist movement and having planned attacks on bridges, power lines and a monument of Lenin. Sentsov defends himself, courageously and without flinching. He responds to the verdict with an emphatic denial of his crimes and instead accuses the accusers themselves ...
In his documentary Askold Kurov investigates the truth behind this political show trial. Were the witnesses for the prosecution placed under duress? What effect did detention and the trial itself have on the accused and his family? The film also documents the solidarity shown to Sentsov by filmmaking colleagues such as Agnieszka Holland, Ken Loach and Pedro Almodovar, and by the European Film Academy.
Following immediately after The Trial the Museum will screen Sentsov's film Gaamer.