After the screening at the Zhovten Cinema, we are pleased to present our special film selection Long Live Rare Resources!, available for online viewing across Ukraine. The films will be accessible from March 5 through April 5 inclusive. Below, you can find detailed information about the films and the ticket terms.
As part of our Rare Resource communication campaign, we invite you to watch four films about participatory democracy, selected in collaboration with leading European film festivals:
Going South — dir. Alan Sahin, Switzerland, 2024, 16 min
Festival: Visions du Réel (Switzerland)
Dogs walking on the breakdown lane, bachelorettes partying in the car and a bored child looking for something to do. Thousands of impatient travellers are trapped in the traffic jam of the century. Ahead lies the Gotthard Mountain, one of the longest tunnels in the world, the gateway to the sunny South. Glued to the asphalt, climate activists are heating up the mood even more. Who will snap first? 
At All Hours and None — dir. Davide Minotti, Valeria Miracapillo, Italy, 2023, 19 min
Festival: DOK Leipzig (Germany)
Shattered photos, excerpts from newspapers and pieces of words become voices that spread through the alleys of a Turkish city, until they reach the house of a writer, who’s writing a page. These fragmented voices tell the story of Asli Erdogan, Turkish writer who went on exile in Europe after being imprisoned for her political ideas. The voices narrate about her childhood in Istanbul and the feminist commitment; about the years as researcher in Switzerland and Brazil before returning to Istanbul, the heart of her lost country. Footage of travel and migration in search of work, images from physics laboratories, videos of protests against the authorities in Istanbul: these become substances of the inner world Asli Erdogan holds together within herself during the exile. The voices reveal who she was and who she wasn’t, they whisper something about the future. Meanwhile, the page is no longer empty and contains words.
There Are People in the Forest — dir. Szymon Ruczyński, Poland, 2023, 10 min
Festival: Krakow Film Festival (Poland)
A lonely man limps down the road. A truck drives up to him. Several armed men jump out of it. They capture the limping man and transport him to the forest. The only witnesses of the scene are people from a nearby village. Since 2021, situations like these are commonplace on the Polish-Belarussian border of the EU, which is the scene of an ongoing refugee crisis. An animated documentary whose creator happens to live in a town by the border.
Long Live Death — dir. Robert Mihály, Slovakia, 2021, 20 min
Festival: One World (Czech Republic)
On the 31st anniversary of the Velvet Revolution, several students of the Academy of Performing Arts in Bratislava split into smaller film crews in order to record demonstrations initiated primarily by the far right and the neo-Nazi wing of football hooligans. Protests, which are being used by some opposition parties to strengthen their political capital, are taking place at a time of intensifying the global Covid-19 pandemic. The film focuses on random and selected actors in several parallel demonstrations, which merged into one, and tries to analyze this event through a lecture by the Italian philosopher Umberto Eco entitled Ur-Fascism.
Access to the films will open on March 5 at 10:00 and remain available until April 5 at 23:59.
Purchased tickets for a particular film will be valid for seven days from the moment of activation.
The ticket price is 40 UAH for a single viewing.
Please note that the online screenings are available only within Ukraine.
Main photo: a still from the film At All Hours and None
The screenings are held with the financial support of the Embassy of Sweden and the Delegation of the European Union to Ukraine.
