SUPPORTER

Sergey Nayda

Ukraine / 2019, 7 min

By delivering cultural values from other dimension the courier-soldier finds himself in Ukrainian reality.

Contacts: likethismessage@gmail.com

SURROGATE

Stas Santimov

Ukraine / 2020, 6 min

A man destroys the nest of an unknown creepy creature. But it's not the most horrible creature he will meet tonight.

Contacts: santimov.art@gmail.com

TILIA

Tetiana Usova

Ukraine / 2020, 18 min

Can we trust our memory? When almost all the photos are long lost, only the tilia blossom keeps the memories of your close one.

Contacts: taniausowa@gmail.com

KACHALKA

Gar O’Rourke

Іreland, Ukraine / 2019, 9 min

(OUT OF COMPETITION)

A cinematic portrait of Kyiv’s Soviet scrap metal ‘Kachalka' gym — the world's most hardcore gym.

Contacts: gar@ruff.studio

METAWORK

Vasyl Lyah

Ukraine / 2019, 25 min

Ihor works from home in a taxi answering service. He seems to be imprisoned in his room in a depressing apartment block opposite the pompous Orthodox cathedral. To escape the hopelessness, Ihor tries to interpret his precarious daily life as creatively as possible. Growing sunflowers on his balcony and creating rotoscoping animation on an out-of-date black&white printer become important rituals of resistance.

Contacts: vashilyah@gmail.com, freefilmers.ua@gmail.com

CIRQUE

Max Ksjonda

Ukraine / 2019, 11 min

9-year-old Svetka, a curious schoolgirl, is on the way to the local circus with her mother. She notices things that adults do not pay attention to whatsoever. Overwhelmed by her observations, Svetka loses her interest in the circus itself, while her mother enjoys it like a child.

Contacts: Jeanna Koba, producer j.koba@essehouse.com