Film Selection
No status. Ukraine
Getting a refugee status in Ukraine is one of the most difficult and unpredictable challenges. We follow a political refugee from Russia who tries to get status in Ukraine. Despite all the burdens of living with no documents, Alexey Vetrov works and participates many actions against Russia's aggression. The story of Nurkhan, a journalist, began when she covered the so-called Osh massacre in Kyrgyzstan. Now she and her three teenage daughters are seeking for asylum in Ukraine.
Dmytro Tiazhlov is a documentary director and cinematographer, curator of the Indie Lab documentary lab for young artists, curator of the documentary programme at the American Independence Film Festival, and leader of a course at the department of Film and Television Cinematography at the Karpenko-Kary National University of Theatre, Film and Television 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).
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.
The Cacophony of the Donbas
A contemplative film whose idea is to explore the creation of the myth about the Donbas by using archive footage from documentary and feature films. The film's plot develops along two planes. The first is life through the eyes of Soviet propaganda and the Donbas as a showcase of ideology. The second is real life, hidden from unwelcome eyes. The film uses archive footage and recordings of interviews with former Donbas residents who witnessed Russian aggression and became its victims. Life promised to become a symphony of work, joy and welfare, but turned out to be a delusion and a manipulation. Now there are no illusions left. The symphony of the Donbas has turned into a cacophony of the Donbas.
Igor Minaiev is a film and theater director and a screenwriter. He studied in the Cinema Department of the Karpenko-Kary Institute of Theater and Cinema in Kyiv between 1972 and 1977, and earned a degree in Film Directing.
Show time & place
Pyriatyn,
59, Soborna St.
