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.
Facade Colour: Blue
Florian Yuriev is an architect, artist, violin maker, theoretician and poet. At the age of 90 he has to master another, completely new skill. In order to save his architectural project, Kyiv’s ‘Flying Saucer’, from turning into part of a shopping mall, Florian Yuriev launches a campaign against the arbitrary power of developers in the capital.
Oleksiy Radynski is a documentary filmmaker and writer. His films have been screened at the Oberhausen International Short Film Festival, DOK Leipzig, Guanajuato, Watch Docs (Warsaw), Odesa IFF, Nowe Horyzonty (Wroclaw), ‘86’ (Slavutych) and other festivals, as well as at e-flux (New York), S A V V Y Contemporary (Berlin), the Institute for Contemporary Arts (London), and other venues. His film The People Who Came to Power (2015, co-directed with Tomáš Rafa) won the main prize in the national competition at Docudays UA in Kyiv.
Shut the Fuck Up!
Serhiy Chaharov has fought against corruption in his home village of Hatne near Kyiv since he was 15 years old. His weapons are documents and journalistic texts. During one of the village council’s meetings, a councillor whom Serhiy had accused of corruption attacked the activist and publicly threatened him. All the major Ukrainian media wrote about this case. For them, Serhiy is a hero. For some of the village, he is a shame. He receives threats and is advised to “stay away from adult business”. And one night, an explosive device is placed in his yard.
Taisiia Kutuzova is a filmmaker and cinematographer from Crimea. She graduated from the Ukrainian Catholic University. For five years, she has worked as a multimedia journalist at Radio Liberty. As a co-director and cinematographer, she made the short documentaries Alive and Undefeated (2016) and Youth 1927 (2017).
Show time & place
Mariupol,
Mitropolitskaya str., 19
