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Documentary Screenings “In Search of Home”

10 September 2015

What refugees from Syria coming to Europe have in common with Ukrainians, forced to leave their homes in the Eastern part of Ukraine and became internally displaced residents? What is “home”? How to find a new “home” and not to lose your sense of identity? 

MitOst members, “PRAVO. Berlin Group for Human Rights in Ukraine” initiative group, brings to the festival four movies, selected from the International Human Rights Film Festival Docudays UA. Films reveals the complexity of the migration topic and relation with the “Other”. 

Each screening will be followed by open discussion with civic activists from Ivano-Frankivsk.

Moderation: Oleksandra Bienert, “PRAVO. Berlin Group for Human Rights in Ukraine”.

Movies are shown in the original language with English subtitles.

24.09.2015

18:00 - Broken Branches (25', 2014, Israel, director Ayala Sharot). 
Screening and discussion with historian Lyibov Solovka

20:00 - Haunted (118', 2014, Syria, director Liwaa Yazji) 
Screening and discussion with Serhiy Nykonorov (Donetsk – Ivano-Frankivsk), Head of the board of “D.O.M.48.24” NGO.

25.09.2015

18:00 - This Is My Land (93', 2014, France, director Tamara Erde). 
Screening and discussion with writer and translator Halyna Petrosanyak and Vyacheslav Likhachov, political scientist, head of The National minority Rights Monitoring Group (via Skype from Jerusalem).

21:00 - Life in Paradise – Illegals in the Neighborhood (78', 2013, Switzerland, director Roman Vital).
Screening and discussion with Yaroslav Minkin, poet, activist, head of the Youth NGO STAN (Luhansk – Ivano-Frankivsk).

About MitOst-festival here

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