In 2023, the ANU Museum with the support of the NADAV Foundation began a collaboration with famous director Elena Yakovich. Yakovich is the author of numerous documentaries and series, including “Walks with Brodsky,” “The Brest Ghetto,” “The World after Auschwitz,” and “Kristallnacht: Jewish Pogrom, 1938”. Since then, the museum has been hosting a series of film screenings called “Resistance,” where visitors have the opportunity to watch Yakovich’s documentaries about people who resisted oppression and chose to speak out for freedom. Her films include unknown chronicles, documents and photographs from personal and state archives and unique witnesses of their life and fate.
In April 2023, the museum presented a film about Ludmila Ulitskaya, titled “Where the Road Leads,” with support from the NADAV Foundation and its founder, Leonid Nevzlin. Ulitskaya and her son attended the event. In May, the museum hosted its traditional event in honor of Andrei Sakharov’s birthday, with workers from the Sakharov Centre participating in the film screening. In December 2023, the museum premiered the film “And My Path Shall Lie Through This City: A Few Filming Days with Joseph Brodsky.”
This year, in February and March, the museum showed the films “Anna Akhmatova: Eternal Presence” and “Life is Not Easy: Your Sergei Dovlatov.” The most recent event, in May, was timed to Joseph Brodsky’s birthday. Museum guests were the first to view Elena Yakovich and Aleksei Shishov’s film “Out of Nowhere with Love: Memories of Joseph Brodsky’’. Additionally, the new edition of Yakovich’s book “Out of Nowhere with Love: Memories of Joseph Brodsky” was presented.
*Photos by Aleksandr Khanin and Yael Ilinskaya
