Film documents the new reality of our time through capturing the everyday life routine of Ukrainian refugees residing in the transit shelter on the outskirts of Budapest.
An AP team of Ukrainian journalists trapped in the besieged city of Mariupol struggle to continue their work documenting the atrocities of the Russian invasion. As the only international reporters who have remained in the city, they capture what later become defining images of the war: dying children, mass graves, the bombing of a maternity hospital, and more.
Clouds Move with Great Speed (Летять хмари з великою швидкістю)
The story is about a man who lost five family members as a result of Russian airstrikes on a residential building in the Kyiv region. Two years have passed, and the remains of Vadim's relatives have yet to be identified. So he doesn't have anyone to bury.
Ravaged body of Ukrainian nature is the main character behind this visually and sound driven observational documentary. Silently laying bare the catastrophic impacts of war, nature resists and gradually heals itself.
Portrait of the Film Processing Center and of the people who were left in it. A casual time capsule that embodies the history of the Ukrainian film school. Is there hope for deconservation and preservation of memory?
#sports #identity #history #family #current_affairs #creative #coming of age #archives #anthropology
Сompleted
Fragments of Ice (Фрагменти льоду)
A gentle hypnotic journey through the VHS archives of the (post-)Soviet figure skater who toured the West in the 80s and 90s. Years later, his daughter follows these videotaped memories to reveal a story about maturing: of herself, her family, and her society.
#sports #identity #history #family #current_affairs #creative #coming of age #archives #anthropology
A personal journey to reveal the banality of evil behind Russia’s invasion of Ukraine. A creative juxtaposition between the realities of Ukrainians resisting the violence of war, and the Russians perpetrating it.
The documentary asks what lies behind Russia's nuclear blackmail actions, what possible solutions exist, and what post-war security policy must look like to prevent future nuclear threats.
With the full-scale russian invasion of Ukraine, twelve-year-old Mykyta together with his parents and younger brother, had to flee their home in Vuhledar, a small mining town in Donetsk Oblast.
Several Ukrainian artists and one filmmaker embark on a journey to seek an answer to once unimaginable question - what is the artist’s role in a war?
#war #current_affairs #art #culture #creative
Work in Progress
The Days I Would Like to Forget
#war #history #current_affairs #anthropology
Work in Progress
The Days I Would Like to Forget (Дні, які хочеться забути)
Film triptych of three parts – MILITANTROPOS, PALINGENESION, and COSMOMORPHOSIS, observes how the war in Ukraine changes humans and space and affects the world. Different personal experiences combine a holistic collective one, showing war’s influence and presence on all levels of existence.
The film’s events take place on a single day: August 24, 2022, the day Ukraine celebrates the 31st anniversary of the renewal of independent statehood.
A journey through the lives of three women from Ukraine, Bosnia and Germany revealing how they manage to overcome the trauma of rape at war while also searching for justice as they regain their strength and dignity.
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