{"title": "Shchors", "start": "2026-10-28T16:00:00-04:00", "end": null, "place": "The Metrograph", "address": "Ludlow Street 7, 10002 New York", "price": "", "price_from": null, "price_to": null, "tickets_url": "", "category": "film", "tags": ["film/drama/historical-drama"], "description": "A biopic of the Bolshevik commander Mykola Shchors, the 'Red Commander of the Ukraine,' starring Yevgeny Samoylov in the title role. Directed by Oleksandr Dovzhenko with Yulia Solntseva and personally commissioned by Joseph Stalin, its production came under make-or-break pressure that took a grievous toll on Dovzhenko's health, though it earned him the first of two Stalin Prizes. It endures less for its vigorous hagiography than for the moments of ineffable poetry embroidered through it, rooted in Ukrainian cultural tradition and a relish for the natural world.", "url": "https://noky.io/en/new-york/events/shchors-56647/", "official_url": "https://metrograph.com/film/9999005034-shchors/", "image": "https://noky.io/images/49ff5d2b341231d51e21721107c1f8899fe3dcb080c33d253fa66319398d2eca-2000.webp", "dates": [{"start": "2026-10-28T16:00:00-04:00", "end": null, "place": "The Metrograph", "address": "Ludlow Street 7, 10002 New York", "tickets": ""}], "similar": [{"title": "Ivan", "start": "2026-11-02T16:00:00-05:00", "end": null, "place": "The Metrograph", "address": "Ludlow Street 7, 10002 New York", "price": "", "price_from": null, "price_to": null, "tickets_url": "https://t.metrograph.com/Ticketing/visSelectTickets.aspx?cinemacode=9999&txtSessionId=31318", "category": "film", "tags": ["film/silent-film"], "description": "Ivan is a 1932 film directed by Oleksandr Dovzhenko, his first sound film. It is a melic ode to the construction of the Dnipro Hydroelectric Station and the men and women conscripted into its accomplishment, among them the eponymous Ukrainian villager. In it Dovzhenko created a rich sonic tapestry, proving himself an innovator in the aural as much as the visual realm. As influential as Earth before it on the Ukrainian poetic cinema of the 1960s, it is an achievement of towering stature.", "url": "https://noky.io/en/new-york/events/ivan-56685/", "official_url": "https://metrograph.com/film/9999005035-ivan/", "image": "https://noky.io/images/3a6ed9671d777fb71d94afe63405cc35b35bc4bc576f8efa7e05b9f1b49e84e2-2000.webp"}, {"title": "Poem of the Sea", "start": "2026-11-03T18:00:00-05:00", "end": null, "place": "The Metrograph", "address": "Ludlow Street 7, 10002 New York", "price": "", "price_from": null, "price_to": null, "tickets_url": "https://t.metrograph.com/Ticketing/visSelectTickets.aspx?cinemacode=9999&txtSessionId=31321", "category": "film", "tags": ["film/drama"], "description": "Poem of the Sea is a 1958 film directed by Yulia Solntseva, based on a script left behind by Dovzhenko at his death and filmed by his widow, who aimed to work wholly in accordance with his artistic conception. It deals with the construction of the Kakhovka Hydroelectric Power Plant and its impact on the surrounding countryside, in particular one soon-to-be-submerged village, birthplace of General Fedorchenko (Boris Livanov), whose arrival for a visit in its final days stirs long-dormant memories. The film is 105 minutes long.", "url": "https://noky.io/en/new-york/events/poem-of-the-sea-56688/", "official_url": "https://metrograph.com/film/9999005038-poem-of-the-sea/", "image": "https://noky.io/images/56bdbcb91d824efdd1429c5d919903fe8b87e190a935b2327e90007f38a52ca1-2000.webp"}, {"title": "Aerograd", "start": "2026-11-02T18:00:00-05:00", "end": null, "place": "The Metrograph", "address": "Ludlow Street 7, 10002 New York", "price": "", "price_from": null, "price_to": null, "tickets_url": "https://t.metrograph.com/Ticketing/visSelectTickets.aspx?cinemacode=9999&txtSessionId=31317", "category": "film", "tags": ["film/drama/historical-drama", "history/soviet-union"], "description": "Aerograd is a 1935 feature film directed by Oleksandr Dovzhenko. Set in the Soviet Far East in the not-too-distant future, it takes its title from a fictitious Siberian city that, home to a strategically vital airfield, is targeted for conquest by the duplicitous forces of the Japanese Empire. Shot by cinematographer Eduard Tissé, it shows the forces of the Revolution contending with samurai saboteurs, counterrevolutionary kulaks and \"Old Believer\" Christians, pushing Soviet civilization into the wilds of the Pacific coast. Part spy thriller, part full-throated agitprop, and part pantheistic bliss-out.", "url": "https://noky.io/en/new-york/events/aerograd-67260/", "official_url": "https://metrograph.com/film/9999005037-aerograd/", "image": "https://noky.io/images/c874ddabd5510121d8f4210cfa12d0924d78216fee1c69ee47bf9d3f354cc514-2000.webp"}, {"title": "The Enchanted Desna", "start": "2026-11-03T20:10:00-05:00", "end": null, "place": "The Metrograph", "address": "Ludlow Street 7, 10002 New York", "price": "", "price_from": null, "price_to": null, "tickets_url": "https://t.metrograph.com/Ticketing/visSelectTickets.aspx?cinemacode=9999&txtSessionId=31323", "category": "film", "tags": ["film/fantasy"], "description": "The Enchanted Desna is Yulia Solntseva's film from 1964, an intimate epic in the magic-realist vein made from a script by her late husband and creative collaborator. It draws on his memories of his childhood on the banks of the Desna River in Chernihiv Oblast, moving freely between pre-revolutionary bucolic idyll, the horrors of World War II, and contemporary-set scenes. The film won a Special Jury Prize at the San Sebastián Film Festival and was Jean-Luc Godard's favorite film of 1965; critic Jonathan Rosenbaum calls it \"among the most ravishingly beautiful and poetic spectacles ever made.\"", "url": "https://noky.io/en/new-york/events/the-enchanted-desna-56689/", "official_url": "https://metrograph.com/film/9999005029-the-enchanted-desna/", "image": "https://noky.io/images/869e5be9e5a7a4277376dd2a22eab7093ac796bafafaf556fa13f5d8c2dd6794-2000.webp"}, {"title": "Virgina", "start": "2026-10-29T19:00:00-04:00", "end": null, "place": "The Metrograph", "address": "Ludlow Street 7, 10002 New York", "price": "", "price_from": null, "price_to": null, "tickets_url": "https://t.metrograph.com/Ticketing/visSelectTickets.aspx?cinemacode=9999&txtSessionId=31177", "category": "film", "tags": ["film/drama"], "description": "A film by Srđan Karanović from 1991, running 102 minutes. When a fourth daughter is born to a family 'cursed' by superstition to bear no male heirs, the decision is made to raise the child with a boy's name—Stevan—as well as a man's rights and responsibilities, though as Stevan passes adolescence, first love and a brush with personal tragedy will spark rebellion in his breast. An acutely observed study of a 19th-century peasant culture steeped in misogyny, and a strikingly sensual story of self-discovery. The film has been newly restored in 2K from the negative, which the director had thought was lost in the aftermath of the Yugoslav Wars.", "url": "https://noky.io/en/new-york/events/virgina-56651/", "official_url": "https://metrograph.com/film/9999005047-virgina/", "image": "https://noky.io/images/ab6052fb2c0b7cae35fdc234237b15582b55af90c10978cbe7f744b5cbbcc00e-2000.webp"}, {"title": "Ulya", "start": "2026-11-07T20:00:00-05:00", "end": "2026-11-07T22:00:00-05:00", "place": "Scandinavia House", "address": "Park Avenue 58, 10016", "price": "", "price_from": null, "price_to": null, "tickets_url": "https://www.scandinaviahouse.org/shop/", "category": "film", "tags": ["film/drama/biographical-drama", "sport/basketball"], "description": "An evening film screening with a talk, presenting the biopic Ulya about the legendary Latvian basketball player Uļjana Semjonova. Director Viesturs Kairišs joins for a film talk after the screening. Set in Soviet Latvia in 1964, the film follows teenager Ulya, whose height approaches two meters on her family's farm, until a coach whisks her away to Riga to play basketball. As she rises toward stardom, she must deal with others seeing her as a means to their own ends and choose what she really wants.", "url": "https://noky.io/en/new-york/events/ulya-55699/", "official_url": "https://www.scandinaviahouse.org/event/ulya-nybff/", "image": "https://noky.io/images/7e25c695f50ceae0d721279c26e66fa6f7689ba5f00c31ace5f021a9941bfd5c-2000.webp"}, {"title": "Ulysses' Gaze", "start": "2026-11-02T18:15:00-05:00", "end": null, "place": "The Metrograph", "address": "Ludlow Street 7, 10002 New York", "price": "", "price_from": null, "price_to": null, "tickets_url": "https://t.metrograph.com/Ticketing/visSelectTickets.aspx?cinemacode=9999&txtSessionId=31313", "category": "film", "tags": ["film/drama"], "description": "A screening of the film \"Ulysses' Gaze\". Theo Angelopoulos directs Harvey Keitel as a Greek American filmmaker known simply as \"A\", who returns to Hellas after decades away to find three undeveloped reels shot at the turn of the century by the Manaki Brothers, pioneers of Macedonian cinema. His quest for his own personal \"Ithaca\" becomes an odyssey through the Balkans after the fall of communism. The film is a meditation on war, imperial decline, and art's capacity to render grief and loss into finer materials.", "url": "https://noky.io/en/new-york/events/ulysses-gaze-67261/", "official_url": "", "image": "https://noky.io/images/eec414e248d3b837b2dbf915afd0c9f2fd6a236ad342905ba211f10f254af5ab-2000.webp"}]}