Vice To Rock Tribeca Film Festival With Gogol Bordello Music Doc, Featuring Ukrainian-Born Musician Eugene Hütz

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EXCLUSIVE: At the upcoming Tribeca Film Festival it’s going to get loud. VICE News announced today the feature documentary Scream of My Blood: A Gogol Bordello Story will premiere at the festival on June 13, a film VICE describes as “a wild punk-rock-doc that explodes off the screen.” Scream of My Blood, directed by Nate Pommer and Eric Weinrib, centers around musician Eugene Hütz, leader of the punk band Gogol Bordello, who immigrated to the United States from Ukraine as a kid.

After Russia’s full-scale invasion of his native country last February, the filmmaking team followed him as he returned to Ukraine with his band to perform for Ukrainian soldiers.  “Through never-before-seen photo and video archives spanning two decades – including concert performances, backstage moments and intimate interviews – Scream of My Blood follows the epic journey of Eugene Hütz, Gogol Bordello frontman and one of the greatest storytellers of our time, as he uses music as a rallying cry for the cultural identity of Ukraine while it continues its fight for sovereignty,” according to a summary of the film. “Born in Ukraine to a family with Romani roots, Hütz fled his homeland during the Chernobyl disaster.

Now, after years of exorcizing demons through his music, he is going home to face down the biggest demon of all.” “Only the true friendship of two dedicated craftsmen and maniacs can give an insight like this documentary,” Hütz said in a statement, apparently referring to the co-directors. “Often on his own dime, Nate Pommer traveled the world with us, documenting Gogol Bordello’s impact for over the course of two decades, while tectonic changes were taking place, with empires and minds crumbling around us.