This screening features Boris Barnet's 1945 film, Once Upon a Night, presented alongside his 1942 propaganda short, A Priceless Head. The main feature details a young woman's courageous act of hiding Russian soldiers during WWII, utilizing moodily abstract visuals and stark lighting. The event will include an introduction by The Theater of the Matters and Programmer Edo Choi.

Once Upon a Night preceded by A Priceless Head with The Theater of the Matters and Edo Choi (Programmer)

Set in 1944, this abstract wartime thriller follows an orphaned girl in her screen debut, played by Irina Radchenko, who conceals three wounded Russian soldiers in the attic of a bombed-out building next to a Nazi headquarters. Shot at the Yerevan Film Studio, the film employs stark chiaroscuro imagery to evoke a nightmarish vision of collective resistance, drawing inspiration from the works of Fritz Lang and F.W. Murnau.