Film Selection
Illusion
This absurd story began in Kherson, Ukraine. Young people create a cultural centre to protect the oldest cinema in the city. But the land at the centre of this city attracts officials and deputies; they want to free up the territory and start a war against the cultural activists.
Leonid Yezhurov was born and lives in Kherson, Ukraine. He is a civil and culture activist. In 2016, he created a culture centre together with his friends on the premises of an old film theatre. In 2018, he participated in Indie Lab, a laboratory for young documentary filmmakers, and created a tragicomedy out of the chronicles of the culture centre to protect the film theatre and fight Soviet habits.
Gogol Doc
Gogol Doc is a metaphorical construction of the Tower of Babel, which symbolises the alliance of people for the sake of one global dream. In this case, a dream is to open and run the 10th GOGOLFEST Festival of Art in Kyiv, Ukraine. The festival has practically no state financial support. The creative society, although seemingly aimed at creation, is not always capable of dialogue with itself. There is the problem of whether the festival will exist, or whether it will collapse like a dream of the Tower of Babel. Gogol Doc tells how art is created; it shows the backstage and the theatre's daily life. It also shows the crisis of creativity and raises questions... Every person takes part in creation, and the task of this film is to inspire people to self-realisation in art.
Alisa Pavlovskaya was born in 1987 in Yaroslavl, Russia. She studied at Boris Yukhananov’s studio of Individual Directing and graduated from the Gerasimov Institute of Cinematography (VGIK) as a camera operator.
Show time & place
Nova Kahovka,
Istorychna st.26а