The Bright Path
Year
2021
Country
Germany, Ukraine
Duration
55’
Director
Iryna Riabenka
Stanislav was reporting from his native city of Donetsk for various Ukrainian media after part of the Donbas region fell under the control of Russia-backed separatist militants in May 2014. In 2017 Stanislav was taken captive. Most of the time in captivity, of the 962 he was held prisoner, he spent in a prison called ‘Isolation’. Stanislav kept notes about the events that took place at what used to be the territory of the main cultural platform in the region.
Awards
Outstanding Excellence Award at Docs Without Borders Film Festival (2021)
Director
Iryna Riabenka
Iryna Riabenka grew up in Kharkiv, Ukraine and moved to Germany at the age of 28 to advance her skills in TV journalism and filmmaking. In Germany, she worked at various television broadcasters and gained her first experience in documentary filmmaking. Iryna is currently a student at the TV Journalism & Documentary Film Department of the Hanover University of Applied Sciences and Arts, and is set to gain her master’s degree in 2022. It will be Iryna’s second master degree – she got her first in Ukraine, where she studied foreign languages. Living in Germany, she went to Ukraine to direct the essay film The Bright Path. This film is Iryna’s directorial debut. Her career goal is to make people analyse current hybrid conflicts with the help of documentary films.
Filmography
The Bright Path (2021)
