SHADOWS OF FORGOTTEN ANCESTORS

A towering achievement of world cinema, Sergei Parajanov's modernist landmark fuses folkloric traditions, animistic mysticism, and hallucinatory visual invention. Adapted from a 1911 novella by Ukrainian writer Mykhailo Kotsiubynskyi, it follows Ivanko, a young Hutsul peasant who experiences both the depths of grief and glimmers of hope as he attempts to move beyond his first love, Marichka.