In the days of information wars people are reasonably suffering from information hunger. To find reliability and true meanings, for better understanding we try to get inside a core of each phenomena, and isn’t this a point of actual documentaries?
Ten films carefully selected by the Docudays UA festival’s curators will be shown on November 26-28 in Tel-Aviv. All of them speak different cinematographic languages, but tell us stories about one global theme which is Ukraine: from the fiery barricades on the Maidan square (All Things Ablaze by Oleksandr Techynsky, Aleksey Solodunov, Dmitry Stoykov) to the deliberately idyllic existence of Carpathians’ shepherds (Living Fife by Ostap Kostyuk), and from a wild miner’s festivities (The Miner’s Day by Gaël Mocaër) to a life almost in the dark, when each passing day is already a heroic deed (Crepuscule by Valentin Vasyanovich).
The festival of the best Ukrainian documentary films will be opening with the restored version of the avant-garde masterpiece The Eleventh Year (1928) by Dziga Vertov, which incorporates new soundtrack by contemporary Ukrainian composer Anton Baibakov.
The guests from Kyiv will come to Tel Aviv to introduce film program to Israeli audience: film directors Oleksandr Techynsky and Ostap Kostyuk and Docudays UA Festival’s program director Gennady Kofman and program coordinator Victoria Leschenko.
The film program is the pilot of the project “See Ukraine: Docudays UA on tour” by the travelling festival of documentary films about Ukraine, which will inform people from all over the world about the country through cinema and photography and let them communicate with Ukrainian filmmakers, photographers, civic activists and journalists who will help to comprehend the context of events shown in these films and explain what is currently happening in the country.
SCHEDULE
November 26, Ha-Teiva
Address: Hatsrot Yaffo, Tel-Aviv-Jaffa
19:00 - The Eleventh Year (director Dziga Vertov)
New soundtrack by composer Anton Baibakov (Ukraine)
20:30 - All Things Ablaze (directors Oleksandr Techynsky, Aleksey Solodunov, Dmitry Stoykov)
22:00 - Living Fire (director Ostap Kostyuk) + Q&A with Ostap Kostyuk
November 27, Ha-Teiva
Address: Hatsrot Yaffo, Tel-Aviv-Jaffa
19:00 - Crepuscule (director Valentyn Vasyanovych), Sirs and Masters (director Oleksandr Techynsky, Ukraine, 2013, 35 min) +Q&A with Oleksandr Techynsky
This screening is Supported by Genesis Philanthropy Group
21:00 - Cornered (director Dmytro Tiazhlov), The Doctor Leaves Last (director Svitlana Shymko), Positive (director Polina Kelm), Cafe Voyage (director Roman Bondarchuk)
November 28, Birobidzhan studio
Address: Hagdud Haivri 5, Tel-Aviv-Jaffa
19:00 - The Coal Miner's Day (director Gaël Mocaër)
21:00 - Life Span of the Object in Frame (director Aleksandr Balagura)
The films will be screened with English subtitles.
The workshop and Q&A will be translated to Hebrew.
