(2015) -a short documentary film by Anna Lysun, about the revival of the Ukrainian kobzar, or bardic tradition, which was desimated by the Soviet empire in the 1930's. The film document's the work of Jurij Fedynskyj, an American born Ukrainian, whose grandparents fled from the Stalinist regime in 1944. After 250 years of life in the diaspora, only recently, has the Poltavian line of Jurij's family been able to "repatriate" home to a free, Eastern Ukraine, where Jurij now raises his own family of six, and works to revive the Ukrainian nation, through reviving an ancient musical and spiritual tradition.

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