The Travelling Festival is gaining momentum: in the first days of November, it heads to the towns and villages of Bukovyna! We have prepared “living libraries,” public readings, and, of course, films that touch everyone’s souls. 

Here is a digest of our public events for you:

November 3, 3 PM

Chernivtsi. Screening of the film Girl Away From Home (dirs. Simon Lereng Wilmont, Alisa Kovalenko) and discussion with Roksolana Zharkova, writer, literary critic, researcher of women's writing, and PhD in philology.

Presentation of Roksolana Zharkova's new book Scissors, Paper in the format of public reading. The book narrates the fate of a Ukrainian woman forced to go abroad after the full-scale invasion of Russia. The author raises the following questions: Can music and poetry fill all the pores of pain in our bodies and hearts? How can a woman balance between childhood and adulthood, cities and words, the obvious and the imaginary, her own and someone else's? Why does violence repeat itself and wars incessantly go on?

November 6, 2 PM

Brusnytsya. Screening and discussion of the films Nelson the Pig (dir. Anneke de Lind van Wijngaarden) and Boots on the Ground, Hands in the Soil (dir. Karolina Uskakovych).

November 7, 1 PM

Novoselytsya. Screening and discussion of the films Boots on the Ground, Hands in the Soil (dir. Karolina Uskakovych) and Girl Away From Home (dirs. Simon Lereng Wilmont, Alisa Kovalenko).

November 8, 10.30 AM

Storozhynets. Screening and discussion of the film Girl Away From Home (dirs. Simon Lereng Wilmont, Alisa Kovalenko).

November 8, 1 PM

Hlyboka. Screening and discussion of the films Boots on the Ground, Hands in the Soil (dir. Karolina Uskakovych) and Girl Away From Home (dirs. Simon Lereng Wilmont, Alisa Kovalenko).

November 9, 4 PM

Chernivtsi. Screening of the film Kiosk (dir. Daniel Stopa), followed by discussion with the expert Nataliya Batrakova, chairwoman of the NGO “‘Synergia’ Center for Civic Activism,” civic activist, and women’s rights advocate.

November 10, 3 PM

Chernivtsi. Screening and discussion of Boots on the Ground, Hands in the Soil (dir. Karolina Uskakovych). “Living Library” with Maryna Provotorova from Severodonetsk – author, civic activist, and chairwoman of the NGO “Artists’ Union ‘Art Guard i Ya’”.

Save the dates and follow the announcements on the Travelling Docudays UA / Chernivtsi Facebook page or the Events section of the main page of the Travelling Festival, where more detailed information about all the events will be published. Please note that the programme is subject to changes.

The 21st Travelling Docudays UA is supported by the Embassy of Sweden in Ukraine, the Embassy of the Kingdom of the Netherlands in Ukraine, and International Media Support. The opinions, conclusions or recommendations do not necessarily reflect the views of respective governments or charitable organizations of these countries. The author(s) of this publication are solely responsible for its content.