Serhii Anatoliiovych Bukovskyi (; born 18 July 1960) is a Ukrainian documentary film director and actor. Bukovskyi is a member of the Board of the

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and laureate of the

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. He was awarded the honorary title of

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in 1996 and the title

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in 2008. Representing the critical school of Ukrainian documentary filmmaking.

Biography

Serhii Bukovskyi was born in

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in 1960, to Film director and actress . His family moved to

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later that year. From 1977 to 1982, Bukovskyi attended the

Kyiv National I. K. Karpenko-Kary Theatre, Cinema and Television University Kyiv National Ivan Karpenko-Karyi, Ivan Karpovych Karpenko-Karyi Theatre, Cinema and Television University () is the national university specializing exclusively in performing arts and located in Kyiv, Ukraine.Kyiv National I. K. Karpenko-Kary Theatre, Cinema and Television University Kyiv National Ivan Karpenko-Karyi, Ivan Karpovych Karpenko-Karyi Theatre, Cinema and Television University () is the national university specializing exclusively in performing arts and located in Kyiv, Ukraine.Palme d'Or The (; ) is the highest prize awarded to the director of the Best Feature Film of the Official Competition at the Cannes Film Festival. It was introduced in 1955 by the festival's organizing committee. Previously, from 1939 to 1954, the festiv ...

at the

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Filmography

Bukovskyi has made around 50 films in his career. These include: *"Tomorrow is Holy" ( 1987 ) *"And the Night Was Dark ... " ( 1988 ) *"Dream" ( 1989 ) *"Roof" ( 1989 ) *"Dislocation" ( 1992 ) *"Dash Mark" ( 1992 ) *"Landscape. Portrait. Still Life" ( 1993 ) *"To Berlin!" ( 1995 ) *"Ten Years of Alienation" ( 1996 ) *"The Bridge" ( 1999 ) *"Vilen Kalyuta. Real Light" ( 2000 ) *"Terra Vermelha. Red Earth" ( 2001 ) *"War. The Ukrainian Account" ( 2002 - 2003 ) *" Spell Your Name" ( 2006 ) *"Everyone Must Die" ( 2007 ) *"The Living" ( 2008 ) *" Ukraine. Reference Point" ( 2011 ) *"The Main Role" ( 2016 ) *" V. Silvestrov" ( 2020) Many of Bukovskyi's films have won numerous awards. His

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documentary "War. The Ukrainian Account" won the Taras Shevchenko National Prize of Ukraine in 2004. His 2009 film on The Holodomor, titled "The Living," was shown at multiple festivals, including the Human Rights Festival in Stockholm (April 2009), and won awards such as the Special Jury Prize of the International Art House Cinema Festival in Batumi in September 2009. His 2006 holocaust documentary "Spell Your Name," which was produced and presented by

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, has also seen moderate success internationally.

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