As we approach the end of the Academic Year we have enjoyed conversations with amazing artists and watched many great films.

We are delighted, as our final event, to present Russian director Dmitriy Omelchenko and his wonderful work ‘A Long Way Back; In the Shadow of the Gulags’

This unique sociological documentary film is a story about the fates of people who found each other and believed in a possible salvation, not only in a metaphysical world, but here and now. The film will tell the biographies of several parishioners and the pastor of the Pentecostal Church in the city of Tomsk (Russia).

''You can be free in prison and imprisoned in the outside world"

About the director:

Dmitry Omelchenko is a Russian documentary filmmaker. A member of a Guild of Non-fiction film and TV. He is a graduate of filmmaking from New York Film Academy (LA), has a degree in sociology, and works as a researcher in Centre for Youth Studies at Higher School of Economics Saint-Petersburg Russia.

The screening and Q&A session will be online via zoom. After the registering deadline, you will receive a separate e-mail with a zoom link, so please check out all our e-mails. Please register here: https://www.eventbrite.com/e/a-long-way-back-screening-and-qa-with-the-director-dmitriy-omelchenko-tickets-159021125467

Registration deadline: 22 June 2021, 2 PM

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This is a Queen's University Belfast PhD/PGR initiative originated by PhD student Victoria Baltag and organized with PhD graduand Damon Blalack and PGR student Alex Cazam, all from AEL.