DEEP LOVE
Mykyta Lyskov
Ukraine / 2019, 13 min
Deep love has finally happened in Ukraine.
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DEDICATED TO THE YOUTH OF THE WORLD II
Yarema Malashchuk, Roman Himey
Ukraine / 2019, 9 min
The focus of the film is the techno-rave Cxema and the youth, on which the camera is carefully focused the next morning after the event. The space of Dovzhenko's film-studio is transformed into a dancefloor, a synchronized crowd, spotlights, arrhythmic synthetic sound by Stanislav Tolkachev — the camera moves away and approaches, creating a sense of romantic "exaltation" and at the same time a modern "alienation". This is the place and meeting that the youth of Kyiv are waiting for and preparing for — this particular escape from everyday life, rejection of it — evokes strange feelings of modern ritual. But what does it mean? The film ends with "portraits", almost static shots, faces "after" utopia. Characters of the film are not ready to accept the new day and its old reality.
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yaremaandhimey@gmail.com
+38 063 337 24 91
Christmas Stories
Valeria Sochyvets, Philip Sotnychenko
Ukraine / 2019, 18 min
That Christmas wasn’t particularly snowy in Lviv, however it didn’t spoil the mood for tourists and locals. Mother and her daughter taking advantage of people’s inattention steal from shops and sell it in social networks.
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sochyvets@gmail.com
Password: noborders
Kyiv Story
Mykhailo Masloboishchykov
Ukraine / 2018, 25 min
Bicycle messenger Tioma lives a happy life in the world of his interests. Meanwhile war rages in the East of his country. War seems illusional, like a fantasy retold by the media. Until, one day, it reaches Tioma in the form of a refugee boy, who steals his bicycle.
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sochyvets@gmail.com
Concrete and unclear
Lera Malchenko, Oleksandr Hants
Ukraine / 2019, 31 min
[Collective dreaming in Ukrainian city] The abandoned hotel PARUS has been existing in the center of the Dnipro city for 50 years. It was built to become the symbol of grandeur of Dnepropetrovsk, as the birthplace of the Soviet leader Leonid Brezhnev. Howewer the hotel was never opened — construction was stopped on the eve of the collapse of the Soviet Union. PARUS is an artifact of urban folklore and an element of urban identity — the font and logo of the city also refer to it. Since 2000, the PARUS is being depicted as a completed building on calendars, in memes, in art projects and visualizations. For numerous citizens of Dnipro, it is a symbol of the city, although it is unfinished. "concrete and unclear" explores the diversity of PARUS's interpretations in various analog and digital media, and attempts to document the state of this collective dreaming. Support by "Cultural capital" program.
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fantasticlittlesplash@gmail.com