It is the second international event to be held by the Lviv City Council not in downtown Lviv but in the Levandivka neighborhood of the city’s Zaliznychnyi district.
The partners of the forum dedicated to the Armenian and Ukrainian film director, who brilliantly cinematized Mykhailo Kotsiubynsky’s Shadows of Forgotten Ancestors, are the Adam Mickiewicz Institute in Warsaw, the Schering Foundation, MitOst e.V. League, NGO Unbeaten Track, NGO Viz-Art, UNESCO Literature City, the Museum of Dreams in Kyiv, NGO Dream Projects, the Center of Contemporary Polish Art, the Dzyga Art Association, the Dilizhan Community Development Center, the German Civil Education Agency, and the First Lviv Foundation.
The Parajanov Festival will comprise an exhibit of artists from five countries at the Suputnyk culture and art center, master classes for children and adults, open-air film shows at Levandivskyi Park, a night of theater, music, discussions, and guest stars. It is also promised that the fest will be a platform of true intercultural communication, which will gather artists from Georgia, Ukraine, Belarus, and Poland, who will show their artistic world from the angle of Parajanov’s esthetics. In particular, scriptwriter and film critic Serhii Trymbach; Parajanov’s pupil, film director Roman Balaian; and art critic Diana Klochko are going to deliver lectures at Levandivka. The forum will also feature the Parajanov Exchange youth project – the schoolchildren who attend the Suputnyk center’s vocal and drama studios will receive their peers from the drama group of the Community Development Center in Dilizhan, Armenia.
Announcing the Levandivka Parajanov Festival 2017, its organizers are saying it is only the beginning, perhaps meaning that they have been actively applying the “decentralization of culture in action” principle in Lviv over the past few years.
