The Ukrainian embassy in France appealed to local authorities after the “Another Russia” (Une autre Russie) organization included the Ukrainian film “Shadows of Forgotten Ancestors” by Sergei Parajanov into the program of the Russian film festival in Paris and Taverny, the embassy’s press service reported on Facebook on March 13. “Shadows of Forgotten Ancestors” is a 1964 Ukrainian film based on the eponymous novel by Ukrainian writer Mykhailo Kotsiubynsky that tells the tragic love story of Marichka and Ivan from rival families. The film’s Armenian-born director, Parajanov, was persecuted and…