The Tenique Association organizes the screening of a Ukrainian documentary to raise funds for refugees

It will take place this Friday, March 18 at the Teatro El Salinero. The donation will be 5 euros and people who wish to do so can make additional contributions

March 15 2022 (13:19 WET)
Maidan Documentary
Maidan Documentary

The Tenique Cultural Association organizes the screening of the Ukrainian documentary 'Maidan', to raise funds, through UNHCR, for people fleeing the war in Ukraine. This feature film is essential to understand the origin of a conflict that began in 2014, and that has caused the invasion of Russia to Ukraine. 

This screening will be carried out by the Association in collaboration with the Cabildo de Lanzarote, Cultura Lanzarote, Ecoentradas, HiVision, Tecnosound and Bruto Estudio. The organization points out that the objective is also for viewers to understand "an important part of the history of Ukraine."  

The screening will take place this Friday, March 18, at 7:00 p.m., at the Teatro El Salinero. The donation per ticket will be 5 euros, and people who wish to do so can make an additional contribution through the same ticket purchase platform, ecoentradas.com.

"It is an act of solidarity with the largest exodus of refugees for war reasons since World War II. In Lanzarote we also want to demonstrate that we are committed to the more than two million refugees who have already left Ukraine. It is also a unique opportunity to see a key documentary to understand what is happening", says the president of the Tenique Cultural Association, Javier Fuentes Feo.

 

Synopsis of 'Maidan'

The director of the documentary, Sergei Loznitsa, narrates what happened in a fundamental moment of the country's recent past. On November 21, 2014, the Ukrainian population took to the streets of Kiev to protest against the refusal of the government of Viktor Yanukovych to launch a Free Trade agreement with the European Union.

The government of the president, clearly supported by Russian President Vladimir Putin, strongly repressed the protests of students and workers, generating a climate of extreme violence in which more than a hundred people lost their lives. After months of resistance, the government fell and Yanukovych was forced to escape to Russia.

Those events, in which the people of Ukraine freely wanted to stop being a satellite of the Kremlin, were a dream of freedom, but they were also the seed of a confrontation with Russia with tragic consequences.

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