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Dnainfo: East Village film festival highlights Ukrainian culture

By Interns.
The team behind Kinofest NYC, a Ukrainian film festival in its third year.
Photo by DNAinfo/Julie Shapiro

EAST VILLAGE — Ukrainian culture is returning to the East Village — on the silver screen.

Kinofest NYC, a fledgling Ukrainian film festival, opens on May 3 night in a neighborhood once known as a magnet for Ukrainian immigrants, packed with Ukrainian restaurants, churches and community groups.

While many of those immigrants have since moved elsewhere, a small contingent of those who remain started the film festival in 2010 to boost awareness of the East Village's cultural history and of the many issues confronting modern-day Ukrainians.

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