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If you feed deliberate lies into a computer, the lies will multi- CATALOGUEply and you’ll get a real mess. OF UKRAINIAN DOCUMENTARY FILMS 5TH EDITION 2018-2020 If you feed deliberate lies into a computer, the lies will multi- CATALOGUEply and you’ll get a real mess. OF UKRAINIAN DOCUMENTARY FILMS 5TH EDITION 2018-2020 CONTENT.DOC GREETINGS________________________6 WORK IN PROGRESS_________________8 20-29 March, 2020 | Kyiv, Ukraine COMPLETED FILMS, 2018-2019______52 COMPLETED FILMS, 2018-2019: CIVIL PITCH_____________________74 DocudaysIf you UAfeed is deliberateheld annualy inlies the intolast weeka computer, of March inthe DOCUDAYS UA RECOMMENDS: Kyiv.lies Onwill completion multiply we tradiand - tionallyyou’ll presentget a realthe best mess. mov - BEST OF 2018-2019_______________84 ies in the regions of Ukraine within the Travelling Festival. CONTACTS________________________95 Call for entries is opened www.docudays.ua INDEX OF FILMS_________________104 every year from July 1 till December 10 @docudays.ua INDEX OF DIRECTORS_____________105 - Page 5 - GREETINGS.DOC GREETINGS.DOC UKRAINIAN STATE FILM AGENCY GENNADY KOFMAN AND THE DOCUDAYS UA TEAM __Dear friends, __In recent years, cinema in Ukraine has become __We are happy to present the fifth edition one of the fastest growing industry sectors. A lot of the Ukrainian Documentary Films Catalogue. of young talented directors started to make films. Some __In our world, full of new challenges, the capacity of them are already well known, their films have been of documentary films to strongly influence the society recognized by juries of prestigious international film is becoming increasingly obvious. True documentary festivals in different countries. Some created films films are capable of making the invisible visible. in coproduction, showing our foreign colleagues that __Like in the past years, Ukrainian documentaries Ukraine is blooming with interesting stories. today participate in numerous international festivals, __In the fifth edition of the catalogue, we present forums, and win awards. For the fifth time, we collect not only documentaries which are already ready for in one catalogue the Ukrainian documentaries that festival and theatrical run, but also film projects show contemporary Ukraine to the world—who we really at various stages of production which will hopefully are, what we care about. attract your audiences. __We’ve already had some successful experience __We hope that this catalogue will open up of making documentary films in international coproduc- the Ukrainian documentary cinema to you and help indus- tion. So we hope that this catalogue will help estab- try professionals to find reliable partners in Ukraine. lish new professional connections. Thus, we invite you to meet the new Ukrainian docu- mentary cinema. - Page 6 - - Page 7 - WORK_IN_PROGRESS.DOC BETWEEN TWO WARS________________10 LAGOONS ________________________32 dir. Alina Gorlova dir. Serhii Lysenko DELIBERATE LIES_________________12 MAMAS WITHOUT BORDERS___________34 dir. Oleksiy Radynski dir. Alina Dianova DIARY OF A BRIDE OF CHRIST______14 MISS ROCK EUROPE________________36 dir. Marta Smerechynska dir. Nadia Parfan ELVIS___________________________16 ROMA___________________________38 dir. Maksym Nakonechnyi dir. Olha Zhurba FLORIAN’S WITNESSES_____________18 ROSES. FILM-CABARET_____________40 dir. Oleksiy Radynski dir. Irena Stetsenko FRAGILE MEMORY__________________20 SIGNERBUSTERS___________________42 dir. Ihor Ivanko dir. Michael Khersonsky FRAGMENTS OF ICE________________22 THE EARTH IS BLUE AS AN ORANGE__44 dir. Maria Stoianova dir. Iryna Tsilyk FROM THE FOREST_________________24 THE FAIRY TALE ABOUT A WOOD HORSE_46 dir. Bohdan Lohvynenko, Mykola Nosok, Pavlo Pashko dir. Ulyana Osovska, Denis Strashnyi If you feed deliberate lies into GREEK WIFE______________________26 TO BUILD A CITY_________________48 WORKa computer, the lies will multi- dir. Polina Moshenska dir. Roman Bondarchuk, Vadym Ilkov ply and you’ll get a real mess. HZV, ADEQUATELY YOURS___________28 V. SYLVESTROV___________________50 IN PROGRESS dir. Dmytro Tiazhlov dir. Sergey Bukovsky IVAN’S LAND_____________________30 dir. Andrii Lysetskyi - Page 9 - WORK_IN_PROGRESS.DOC BETWEEN TWO WARS|ПОМІЖ ВІЙН PLANNED RELEASE:04/01/2020 | UA, LV, 90’ Director Producer: Maksym Nakonechnyi Supported by: Ukrainan State Film Alina Gorlova Co-producer: Ilona Bičevska Agency, Latvian National Film Cen- Production company: tre, IDFA Bertha Fund (Netherlands) Tabor Production Maksym Nakonechnyi, Budget:Confirmed EUR funding: 180,537 EUR 7,000 [email protected] LookingLooking for:for: funding,funding, distribuco-produc- - Co-production company: tor,er, distributor,sales agent, salesbroadcaster, agent, Avantis (Riga, Latvia) festival Studied at: Ilona Bičevska, Kyiv National [email protected] Karpenko-Karyi Theatre, Film and Television University Filmography: __Fleeing Syrian conflict, young Andriy’s family unexpect- _No Obvious Signs (2018), edly landed in Ukrainian. Now he helps people in so-called _Invisible Battalion (2017), “grey” war-torn zone himself as a Red Cross volunteer. _Kholodny Yar. Intro (2016), He balances between peaceful and military world, neutral- _Grandma (2014), _The First Step in the Clouds (2012) ity and passionate ideas, keeping or losing connection with his family, which is spread across the world because of war. Some of them suffer from its consequences, some try to escape and some fight for their ideas, but all they OurIf you world feed todaydeliberate is goinglies exist in this war-torn “grey zone”. Will Andriy manage into a computer, the lies to get out of this endless process of fighting and dealing throughwill multiply hectic and times.you’ll get with the consequences of this fight, making his first steps a real mess. in adult life, with all identities damaged or lost? #creative, #social issues - Page 10 - WORK_IN_PROGRESS.DOC DELIBERATE LIES|НАВМИСНА ОМАНА PLANNED RELEASE:2021 | UA,72’ Director Producer: Lyuba Knorozok Already presented at: DOK Preview Oleksiy Co-producer: Marta Szarzyńska Training (DOK Leipzig), East Doc Radynski Production company: Platform, Ex Oriente Film, Odesa Kinotron Group IFF, Docudays UA IHRDFF Lyuba Knorozok, [email protected] Confirmed funding: EUR 7,000 Co-production company: Confirmed funding: EUR 7,000 LookingLooking for:for: funding,funding, co-producco-produc-- Szarobiuro Productions er, distributor, sales agent, Filmography: Supported by: Visual Culture er, distributor, sales agent, _Facade Colour: Blue (2019), Research Center, Ukraine festival _The Film of Kyiv. Episode One (2017), _Landslide (2016), _People Who Came To Power __”If you feed deliberate lies into a computer, the lies (2015, co-directed by Tomáš Rafa), will multiply and you’ll get a real mess.” These are _Integration (2014), _Incident in the Museum (2013) the words of Viktor Hlushkov, a visionary mathematician who came up with a project which we now call ‘the Soviet Internet.’ When Hlushkov’s project was one step away from being implemented, he was told by the top party officials that he had to wait… IfIf you feedfeed deliberate deliberate lies liesinto a computer, the lies will multi- __This story offers insights into the political mess into a computer, the lies we’re now all in—a mess created by feeding all kinds ply and you’ll get a real mess. of deliberate lies into our computers on a mass scale. will multiply and you’ll get a real mess. #archives, #history, #social issues - Page 12 - WORK_IN_PROGRESS.DOC DIARY OF A BRIDE OF CHRIST|ЩОДЕННИК НАРЕЧЕНОЇ ХРИСТА PLANNED RELEASE:11/2020 | UA,90’ Director Producer: Marta Smerechynska Confirmed funding: EUR 7,000 Marta Production company: Budget: EUR 129,000 Looking for: funding, co-produc- Smerechynska Marta Smerechynska, Confirmed funding: EUR 800 er, distributor, sales agent, [email protected] Looking for: funding, distribu- Already presented at: tor, festival EnergaCAMERIMAGE IFF, Docudays UA IHRDFF Industry Platform Studied at: Kyiv National Karpenko-Karyi Theatre, Film and Television University __The life of young girls who choose to become the brides Filmography: of Christ is full of His love. Nuns see its manifestation _I’m Here Because You in everything. Hair removal and name renunciation. Crosses Called Me (2019), received by 12 new Ukrainian future nuns in a remote village _Sisters (2018) in Transcarpathia, near the border between Ukraine and Romania. A large-scale celebration of the 20th anniversary DOP of the congregation in Ukraine. Hundreds of nuns from all Sonya over the world in the meeting in Rome. And days of absolute Gerasimova silence and intimate personal stories of nuns about the emergence of their vocation. How is it, to be a bride So,If youare feed you deliberateready, daughter, lies into toa computer,endure of Christ? the lies will multiply and you’ll get a real allmess. the trials of monastic life for #author’s point of view, #experimental, #investigative the sake of His love? - Page 14 - WORK_IN_PROGRESS.DOC ELVIS|ЕЛВІС PLANNED RELEASE:07/15/2020 | UA,85’ Director Producers: Liudmyla Pichugina, Confirmed funding: EUR 7,000 Maksym Olga Zhurzhenko, Desniana Budget: EUR 353,160 Looking for: funding, co-produc- Nakonechnyi Rozhkova Looking for: funding, co-producer, er, distributor, sales agent, Production company: festival Ukrkino LLC Olga Zhurzhenko, [email protected] Studied at: Kyiv National Karpenko-Karyi Theatre, Film and Television __For three years, women in Kyiv suburbs couldn’t feel University safe; bodies