Cinema Salem Special Film Screening To Benefit Ukraine Relief

Salem MA

10 March, 2022

5:33 PM

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SALEM, MA — Cinema Salem will host a special free screening of the Ukraine-based film "The Guide" on Sunday with all donations going toward Ukrainian relief efforts. Oles Sanin, the film's highly regarded director, is set to speak live from Kyiv via Zoom prior to the screening. Cinema Salem — which recently reopened after winter renovations — said it will be the first American screening of the 2014 film set in the former Soviet Union during the 1930s when Joseph Stalin was "exterminating millions of Ukrainians, largely by starvation." The film focuses on an American boy named Peter and a blind minstrel named Ivan who are thrown together by fate. The program begins at 4:30 p.m. with a screening at 5. The full film trailer can be found here: (Scott Souza is a Patch field editor covering Beverly, Danvers, Marblehead, Peabody, Salem and Swampscott. He can be reached at [email protected]. Twitter: @Scott_Souza.)