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

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__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.

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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

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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

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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

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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?

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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 of raped women were found everywhere with surprising regularity. The surviving victims claimed that Filmography: the attacker was a mysteriously looking man who resembled _New Year with Family (2018), _Andriy Suleyman (2018, Elvis Presley, with creepy magnetism and animal lust for in production), his victims. Having studied tonnes of material, the best _Peter the Cymbalist (2017), police officers tried to get on the serial rapist’s trail, _Invisible (2017), but all in vain. It seemed like the person they were _School #3 (2016), searching did not exist in reality. Paradoxically, this _Dnipropetrovsk. Again was, in part, true: Elvis lived on a street which wasn’t If you feed deliberate lies into and Forever (2015), on the regional maps for some reason. The creepy magnetism of sub- _Fire (2014) a computer, the lies will multi- urbiaply and sometimes you’ll get givesa real risemess. #drama doc, #investigative to mysterious monsters.

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FLORIAN’S WITNESSES|СВІДКИ ФЛОРІАНА TheIf youstory feed ofdeliberate an artist lies into a computer, the lies will PLANNED RELEASE:11/25/2020 | UA,70’ whomultiply never and gives you’ll up. get a real mess.

Director Producer: Lyuba Knorozok, Supported by: Ukrainian Cultural Oleksiy Oleksiy Radynski Foundation Radynski Production company: Kinotron Group Budget:Confirmed EUR funding: 70,000 EUR 7,000 Oleksiy Radynski, ConfirmedLooking for: funding: funding, EUR 38,000co-produc- [email protected] Lookinger, distributor, for: funding, sales co-producer, agent, Lyuba Knorozok, distributor,festival sales agent, [email protected] festival Filmography: _Facade Colour: Blue (2019), _The Film of Kyiv. Episode One (2017), _Landslide (2016), __At the age of 90, the architect Florian Yuriev looks _People Who Came To Power back at his life: his childhood spent in a Siberian labor (2015, co-directed by Tomáš Rafa), camp, his move to Ukraine, where he became one of the key _Integration (2014), figures of the artistic avant-garde in the 1960s. Yuriev _Incident in the Museum (2013) has always defied the Communist state authorities, but will he be able to defy the corrupt forces of the free market which are now threatening his architectural legacy with destruction? The architect is trying to revitalise his UFO building in Kyiv. This is the feature-length version of the award-winning short documentary Facade Colour: Blue (2019).

#archives, #art, #social issues

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FRAGILE MEMORY|КРИХКА ПАМ’ЯТЬ PLANNED RELEASE: 11/20/2020 | UA, NL, 70’

Director Producers: Mariia Ponomarova, Already presented at: Odesa IFF Ihor Ivanko Alexandra Bratyshchenko Film Industry, East Doc Platform, Co-producer: Harmen Jalvingh B2B Doc Pitching at Docudays UA Production company: IHRDFF, DocsBarcelona, Baltic Sea Burlaka Films Docs Mariia Ponomarova, [email protected] Budget:Confirmed EUR funding: 215,500 EUR 7,000 Co-production company: ConfirmedLooking for: funding: funding, EUR 116,000co-produc- Studied at: DOXY Films (Netherlands) er, distributor, sales agent, Kyiv National Karpenko-Karyi Looking for: co-producer, dis- Supported by: Ukrainian tributor,festival sales agent, broad- Theatre, Film and Television Cultural Foundation University caster, festival

Filmography (as DOP): _14 Utyosova Str. (2019, in production), __Leonid Burlaka is a famous Soviet cinematographer. _Bohdan’s Happiness (2015), He worked at the Odesa Film Studio since the 1960s and If you feed deliberate lies into _BABYLON’13 Project (2013–2019, shot many iconic films, such as The Meeting Place Cannot Having discovered a hidden a computer, the lies will multi- various films) Be Changed. When he suddenly gets diagnosed with Alzhei- photoply and archive you’ll getof a realfamous mess. mer’s disease, his grandson—the young Ukrainian filmmaker Soviet cinematographer, his Ihor Ivanko—finds his grandpa’s personal and unpublished works in their summerhouse. This discovery is the start- grandson tries now to save ing point of a quest to recover bits of memory before memories before they’ve all they’ve all disappeared. disappeared. #archives, #art, #human interest

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FRAGMENTS OF ICE|ФРАГМЕНТИ ЛЬОДУ AIf personal you feed deliberategenerational lies into a computer, the lies will multi- PLANNED RELEASE: 11/05/2020 | UA, 70’ dialogueply and you’ll between get a realdaughter mess. and her father is born from reviewing old footage shot Director Producers: Alina Gorlova, Already presented at: East-West Maria Maksym Nakonechnyi Talent Lab at goEast, AstraFilm- by the man who travelled Stoianova Production company: Lab at Astra FF, DOK Co-Pro Market to the imaginary West. Tabor Production at DOK Leipzig Maksym Nakonechnyi, [email protected] Budget:Confirmed EUR funding: 114,601 EUR 7,000 LookingLooking for: for: funding, funding, co-producer, co-produc- saleser, distributor, agent, broadcaster, sales agent, Filmography: festivalfestival _Above the Styx (2019, as editor, producer, co-DOP), _Ma (2017), _Expedition (2017), _Exarch (2014, as co-director) __This film is based on a family archive of VHS tapes shot by a (post-)Soviet figure skater during the tran- sition period of the 1980s and 1990s. Mikhail’s cam- era documents his unique trips abroad, as well as his baby daughter in the homely Kyiv and Odesa. The spirit of travelling to the West. The collapse of the USSR. The end of the carrier and disillusionment. This film is a journey of growing-up for society, for the father, and for the daughter. How are the videos perceived now, when “the West” is not unattainable anymore? And what is the daughter’s true interest in this footage when she has reached her father’s age?

#archives, #author’s point of view, #creative, #history

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FROM THE FOREST|З ЛІСУ PLANNED RELEASE: 12/15/2019 | UA, GR, 90’

Director Producers: Natalia Panchenko, Confirmed funding: EUR 7,000 Bohdan Olha Shor Budget: EUR 40,0000 Looking for: funding, co-produc- Lohvynenko Contact person: Confirmed funding: EUR 20,000 er, distributor, sales agent, Oksana Kuzema, Looking for: funding, co-producer, festival [email protected] distributor, sales agent, broad- caster, festival

Director Pavlo Pashko __Valeriy is a 79-year-old man. He has lived in a small Ukrainian village all his life, making sculptures with a Greek theme. He has only been to big cities a couple of times, and he’s never been to Greece. Suddenly, a few volunteers who’ve heard his story decide to help him re- alize his dream: to travel to another country and see all the ancient statues he could only read about in books. To Director do this, they write a Facebook post. Can it help unite If you feed deliberate lies Mykola people around one person’s small dream? This is a story of Nosok into a computer, the lies will anmultiply incredible and you’ll collaboration get a real #anthropology, #human interest, #social issues betweenmess. people making a total stranger’s small dream come true. Filmography: _Ukraïner (2016–now), _Lublin wielokulturowy (2016–2017), _Ukraine welcomes U (2013–2015)

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GREEK WIFE|ГРЕЦЬКА ДРУЖИНА PLANNED RELEASE: 03/10/2020 | UA, GR, DE, 70’

Director Producers: Natalia Libet, Already presented at: The Young Polina Vitalii Sheremetiev, People about Ukraine Workshop Moshenska Polina Moshenska (Ukraine, Poland), Docu Talents Co-producer: Michael Sladek from the East, Ji.hlava IDFF, Production company: Sarajevo IFF, B2B Doc Story DGTL RLGN, Development Workshop at Listapad [email protected] Minsk IFF Polina Moshenska, Filmography: If you feed deliberate lies into [email protected] Budget:Confirmed EUR funding: 79,000 EUR 7,000 Like in an ancient Greek _Tsvetayeva and Mayakovsky a computer, the lies will multi- LookingLooking for: for: funding, funding, distribu co-produc- - (Streets) (2016), novel, the couple will be tor,er, distributor,sales agent, salesbroadcaster, agent, ply and you’ll get a real mess. _Phronesis (2015), festivalfestival happily together—but only _The Bridge (2014) after getting through a lot of troubles and being apart. __Non-powdered faces, uneven walks, family scenes, inner In this contemporary sto- struggles, the search to find the necessary words, and ry, instead of adventures dreams set against an unpolished reality. This film is the personal story of the director Polina Moshenska, derived from the Olympian who moved from Kyiv, Ukraine, to Thessaloniki, Greece, Gods, two people in love to reunite with her beloved. She details the story about face a complex mix of geopo- the effort it takes to cover a great distance and the ob- stacles encountered along the way, about the relationship litical, economic and social with her Greek husband and her still pulsing connection issues. to Ukraine.

#anthropology, #creative, #gender

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HZV, ADEQUATELY YOURS|ХЗВ — ДВАДЦЯТЬ РОКІВ В АДЕКВАТІ PLANNED RELEASE: 03/21/2021 | UA, 90’

Director Producer: Ella Shtyka Confirmed funding: EUR 7,000 and DOP Production company: Looking for: co-producer, Looking for: funding, co-produc- Dmytro New Kyiv distributor, festival Tiazhlov Ella Shtyka, [email protected], +380 96 334 00 97

Studied at: Kyiv National Karpenko-Karyi __Hammerman Destroys Viruses is a Ukrainian music band Theatre, Film and Television founded in 1996 in Sumy. Volodymyr Pakholyuk and Albert University Tsukrenko are ordinary Ukrainians who are looking for If you feed deliberate lies into a job, thinking about how to raise their children, but HZV art–synthesis of poet- a computer, the lies will multi- Filmography: the time comes and they turn into thought leaders. They _No Status. Ukraine (2019), ry,ply andmusic you’ll and get stand-ups– a real mess. have to look into other ways of earning money, and _Reforms United (2016), developed into a com- _Highnoon Winti (2015), the music is still just an expensive hobby for them. How _Live Power (2015), controversial and honest an artist could be in Ukraine plex cultural phenomenon. _Post Maidan (2014), today? The band’s performances generate discussions and The relationship between _Cornered (2013), criminal cases, while Vova and Albert move from night- events in the country, cre- _Music Box. Kyiv Outpost (2013), clubs to public TV. _Via Regia–800 Years of Mobility ative and personal life of and Movement (2010), #art, #culture, #social issues the musicians is the focus _I Am a Monument to Myself (2009), _The Difficult One (2007), of the upcoming film. _Important Man (2007), _Austerlitz 2005–1805 (2006)

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IVAN’S LAND|ЗЕМЛЯ ІВАНА PLANNED RELEASE: 02/25/2020 | UA, 87’

Director Producers: Gennady Kofman, Supported by: Ukrainian State Film Andrii Olha Beskhmelnytsina Agency Lysetskyi Co-producers: Already presented at: EURODOC 2018, Uldis Cekulis (VFS Films), B2B Doc, Beldocs IDFF, Ukrainian Dirk Simon (Boxee Media UG) Doc Preview at Docudays UA IHRDFF Production company: MaGiKa Film LookingConfirmed for: funding: funding, EUR distribu 7,000 - Gennady Kofman, tor,Looking sales for: agent, funding, broadcaster, co-produc - Studied at: [email protected], festivaler, distributor, sales agent, Kyiv National Karpenko-Karyi +380 50 597 49 27 Theatre, Film and Television University

Filmography: __Ivan lives a simple life in a Ukrainian village. His main _Ivan’s Land will be his first work occupation seems to be feeding his animals and working his Ivan’sIf you feedlife deliberate is defined lies by into as a documentary director a computer, the lies will multi- fields… until we realize that he is one of the great artists nature, mysticism and of a dying art form. One day, an art collector who has heard ply and you’ll get a real mess. stories about a unique painter shows up on Ivan’s doorstep. art. When the works of the When Ivan is invited to have his works showcased in Kyiv 80-year-old artist are ex- for the first time in his life, the journey he embarks on is hibited in Kyiv for the first bigger than a man travelling from a village to the big city. Arriving at the art gallery, he faces enthusiasm but also time, modern world values the urge of the contemporary art world to intellectualize clash with Ivan’s own ideals his art. Although urban life in the capital offers many ame- of life. nities, he also feels that he is a stranger in this world.

#art, #culture, #author’s point of view

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LAGOONS|ЛИМАНИ PLANNED RELEASE: 03/23/2021 | UA, 75’

Director Producer: Anna Kapustina Confirmed funding: EUR 7,000 Serhii Lysenko Production company: Budget: EUR 130,000 Looking for: funding, co-produc- Albatros Communicos Looking for: funding, distribu- er, distributor, sales agent, Anna Kapustina, tor, sales agent, broadcaster [email protected]

Studied at: __Tuzla Lagoons National Nature Park is a unique natural Kyiv National Karpenko-Karyi system located on the Black Sea coast. The park protectors Theatre, Film and Television led by Ivan Rusev have been fighting for the preservation University of Tuzla Lagoons for many years. This is a disparate life between two worlds: the world of beautiful nature and the Filmography: world of intense, dangerous struggle. There is everything in _Brothers in Arms (2018), _Encyclopedia of Maidan (2015), this life: heavenly landscapes, wild animals, pelicans, the _Amosov—The Centennial (2013), sea—and at the same time, night pursuits of poachers, court _Awakening (2011), cases against illegal developers, abduction and intimidation _Heartbeat (2011), of activists. ThisIf you is feed a disparate deliberate lifelies intobe- _Trap (2009), a computer, the lies will multi- _Thaw (2008), #author’s point of view, #experimental, #human rights tweenply and two you’ll worlds: get a thereal world mess. _From Stool to Mongolia (2006), of beautiful nature and the _Goat (2004) world of intense, dangerous struggle.

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MAMAS WITHOUT BORDERS|МАМИ БЕЗ КОРДОНІВ PLANNED RELEASE: 01/15/2021 | UA, USA, 85’

Director Producers: Confirmed funding: EUR 7,000 Alina Dianova Olga Zhurzhenko, Budget: EUR 472,400 Looking for: funding, co-produc- Liudmyla Pichugina, Looking for: funding, co-produc- er, distributor, sales agent, Desniana Rozhkova er, festival Production company: Ukrkino LLC Olga Zhurzhenko, [email protected] Filmography: _Theatre of Silence (2017), _My Mister Destiny (2013) __A pregnant Ukrainian young woman goes to the US to give birth because she has just discovered jus soli: whoever “BirthIf you feedtourism” deliberate is becoming lies into a computer, the lies will multi- is born on the American soil gets American citizenship auto- more and more popular in matically. During her travels, she faces different opinions ply and you’ll get a real mess. about the legality and rationality of such a trip. Pregnant the world. There is a whole women from China go to the US to give birth because in Chi- industry of services provid- na, the number of children per family is government-regu- ed to women who are “looking lated. Some Americans think it violates their constitution. Having understood the pros and cons of both citizenships, for a better destiny” in she revises her civic position. the US for their yet unborn children. But is everything #current affairs, #gender, #social issues as cloudless as it seems?

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MISS ROCK EUROPE|МІС РОК-ЄВРОПА PLANNED RELEASE: 03/2021 | UA, 75’

Director Producer:Illia Gladshtein Confirmed funding: EUR 7,000 Nadia Parfan Production company: Budget: EUR 140,000 Looking for: funding, co-produc- Phalanstery Films Confirmed funding: EUR 10,000 er, distributor, sales agent, Illia Gladshtein, Looking for: funding, co-producer, festival [email protected] sales agent Supported by: Lviv Film Com- mission, Ukraine

Studied at: Andrzej Wajda Film School (Warsaw, Poland) __Miss Rock Europe is based on the life story of the Ukrainian female punk singer Vika Vradii. It begins in If you feed deliberate lies into Filmography: Several things lead to the 1980s in the westernmost city of the Soviet Union, a computer, the lies will multi- _Heat Singers (2019), Lviv. Chernobyl has just exploded, Brezhnevian Stagnation theply collapseand you’ll ofget thea real Soviet mess. _Housewarming (2017), is still in the air, and the official music means nothing _Reve ta Stohne on Tour (2016), Union, and one of them was but sugary party-controlled pseudo-folk. Vika Vradii finds _Exarch (2014) herself in the thick of the Lviv underground scene and Ukrainian rock’n’roll. Miss starts performing as “Sestrychka Vika” (Sister Vika). Her Rock Europe tells the story hoarse voice, eccentric look and ironic political lyrics of Ukraine’s independence promise nothing but deep marginality. And yet, history through one woman’s path makes a sudden turn. Ukraine becomes independent, and one day Vika wakes up as a national idol. from the underground music scene to becoming a national #archives, #music, #culture, #docu fiction, #gender, #his- idol. tory

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ROMA|РОМА PLANNED RELEASE: 11/30/2020 | UA, NE, 75’

Director Producers: Darya Bassel, Already presented at: Ukrainian Doc Olha Zhurba Viktoriia Khomenko Preview at Docudays UA IHRDFF, Co-producers: Willem Baptist, Ex Oriente Film, Baltic Sea Docs, Nienke Korthof IDFA Academy, Beldocs IDFF Production company: Moon Man Budget:Confirmed EUR funding: 182,612 EUR 7,000 Darya Bassel, ConfirmedLooking for: funding: funding, EUR 87,718co-produc- [email protected], Lookinger, distributor, for: presales, sales world agent, Studied at: +380 93 906 13 42 sales,festival distributors, festivals, Kyiv National Karpenko-Karyi Co-production company: broadcasters Theatre, Film and Television Tangerine Tree University

Filmography: _Between Two Wars (2020, as edi- __After his mother is deprived of her parenting rights, tor, in production), the 12-year-old Roma escapes to the heart of the Ukrainian If you feed deliberate lies into _Home Games (2018, as editor), A coming of age portrait _Gospel (2010) revolution. Here, for the first time in his life, the Romani a computer, the lies will multi- boy Roma is accepted by society. After the revolution, Roma ofply Roma, and you’ll from geta 12-yeara real mess. old ends up at a boarding school for orphans, where the sys- hero of the Maidan revolu- tem only provides some conditional assistance, leaving him tion, through an orphanage alone with his traumas. When he turns 18, Roma returns to his hometown. He tries to find a job and to abstain from to an uncertain adulthood drugs, but his efforts are futile. Gradually, he gets im- in his small Ukrainian home- mersed in the criminal world. However, hope is always loom- town. ing somewhere in the future.

#human rights, #social issues, #coming of age, #criminal drama

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ROSES. FILM-CABARET|РОЗИ. ФІЛЬМ-КАБАРЕ PLANNED RELEASE: 11/30/2019 | UA, 90’

Director Producers: Oleksandra Already presented at: Docudays UA Irena Kravchenko, Oleg Sosnov IDFF, Beldocs IDFF, Baltic Sea Docs Stetsenko Production company: DGTL RLGN Oleksandra Kravchenko, [email protected] Supported by: Ukrainian Budget:Confirmed EUR funding: 117,956 EUR 7,000 Cultural Foundation, Current ConfirmedLooking for: funding: funding, EUR 111,367co-produc- Studied at: Time TV, Living Pictures, Lookinger, distributor, for: distributor, sales agent, sales Kyiv National Karpenko-Karyi Baltic to Black Sea Documen- agent,festival broadcaster, festival Theatre, Film and Television tary Network University; The Sergey Bukovsky Film Program

__The film shows the Ukrainian civil uprising in Maidan SevenIf you individualfeed deliberate charac lies -into a computer, the lies will multi- through the eyes of seven female artists of the freak ters merge into a power- cabaret Dakh Daughters Band, which gives it a particular ply and you’ll get a real mess. perspective: humane rather than epic, celebrating life ful feminine element which rather than heroic deeds. In this film-cabaret, mu- has the ability to inspire sic hardly stops, tears are mixed with laughter, and change and to guide those the actresses are inseparable from the stage—though, in this never-ending acting, they are profoundly sincere. around them towards love, consciousness and creativity. #art, #music, #social issues

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SIGNERBUSTERS|МИСЛИВЦІ ЗА ПІДПИСАНТАМИ PLANNED RELEASE: 02/15/2021 | UA, USA, 85’

Director Producers: Olga Zhurzhenko, Confirmed funding: EUR 7,000 Michael Liudmyla Pichugina, Budget: EUR 266,100 Looking for: funding, co-produc- Khersonsky Desniana Rozhkova Looking for: funding, co-producer, er, distributor, sales agent, Production company: festival Ukrkino LLC Olga Zhurzhenko, [email protected]

Filmography: _Brighton 4 (2019, post-produc- tion; as production director), __A protest of a small group of people near Carnegie Hall _Dark Social (2017), could look grotesque; instead, it looks epic: so much _A Quick Guide to Scripting hate, anger, spitting and pushing against those who hold with Immediate Exposure and the posters. We see portraits of political prisoners, Ghosts (2012), a short story of a conflict between Russia and Ukraine, _Divorced Neighbors (2012) names of the dead. There are also the names of those who have signed the historic letter… IfSignerbusters you feed deliberate are hated lies intoby __Since 2014, when “many Russian artists and public a computer, the lies will multi- figures signed a letter supporting the Russian presi- “peopleply and you’llof culture.” get a real “Art mess. dent’s position regarding Ukraine and Crimea” (BBC), is beyond politics” feels Signerbusters regularly gather in public places to remind them about the existence of a fine connection between guilty. Signerbusters don’t a person and their signature. let this guilt be forgotten.

#culture, #current affairs, #social issues

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PLANNED RELEASE: 11/19/2019 | UA, 75’

Director Producer: Anna Kapustina Supported by: Ukrainian State Film Iryna Tsilyk Co-producer: Giedrė Žickytė Agency, Lithuanian Film Centre, Production company: IDFA Bertha Fund (Netherlands) Albatros Communicos Anna Kapustina, Budget:Confirmed EUR funding: 215,000 EUR 7,000 [email protected] ConfirmedLooking for: funding: funding, EUR 185,000co-produc- Co-production company: Lookinger, distributor, for: festival sales agent, Moonmakers Studied at: Kyiv National Karpenko-Karyi Theatre, Film and Television University __ A single mother, Anna, and her four children live in the front-line warzone of Donbas, Ukraine. While the ToIf copeyou feed with deliberate the daily lies trau into- Filmography: a computer, the lies will multi- outside world is made of bombings and chaos, the family ma of living in a warzone, _Tayra (2017), is managing to keep their house as a safe heaven, full ply and you’ll get a real mess. _Kid (2017), of life and full of light. Every member of the family the single mother Anna and _Home (2016), _Commemoration (2012), has a passion for cinema, which drives them to shoot a her four children are making _Blue Hour (2008) film inspired by their own life during war. What kind of a film about their life to- power the magical world of cinema could have in the time gether. of disaster? How to picture war through fiction? Isn’t art the ultimate way to stay human? Anna and her children transform their own trauma into a piece of art in the most surreal surroundings.

#human interest, #human rights, #social issues

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THE FAIRY TALE ABOUT A WOOD HORSE|КАЗКА ПРО КОНИКА AIf fairytale you feed deliberate for children lies into a computer, the lies will multi- PLANNED RELEASE: 10/20/2020 | UA, 80’ basedply and on you’ll real getstories a real frommess. the war and the true story of an old man who came up Director Producers: Denis Strashnyi, Already presented at: Artdocfest/ Ulyana Osovska Ulyana Osovska Riga Pitching, Ex Oriente Film (ob- with the idea to create it. Production company: servers), Pitching at Beldocs IDFF Docutoloka Ulyana Osovska, Budget:Confirmed EUR funding: 160,000 EUR 7,000 [email protected] ConfirmedLooking for: funding: funding, EUR 86,000co-produc- Supported by: Ukrainian Cul- Lookinger, distributor, for: co-producer, sales agent, distrib - tural Foundation utor,festival sales agent, broadcaster, Director festival Denis Strashnyi

__In the heart of Estonia’s capital, Tallinn, lives a former anti-Soviet activist and artist who left Ukraine a long time ago and chose to live a spiritual life. Filmography (common): Since the war began in Ukraine, he has travelled with _Lifelong Songs (2019), humanitarian aid groups to help those most in need: _Almost 10,000 Voters (2017), _Election Agent (2015) wounded soldiers, refugees, orphans. Throughout his travels, he has also looked for positive stories despite the war. He puts these stories into a book of fairy tales which children can learn from.

#animated, #creative, #current affairs, #human interest

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TO BUILD A CITY|ПОБУДУВАТИ МІСТО PLANNED RELEASE: 11/2020 | UA, 75’

Director Producers: Supported by: Ministry of Culture Roman Vitalii Sheremetiev, of Ukraine Bondarchuk Olha Beskhmelnytsina Production company: LookingConfirmed for: funding: funding, EUR distributor, 7,000 DGTL RLGN salesLooking agent, for: festival funding, co-produc- Olha Beskhmelnytsina, [email protected], +380 50 312 29 49 Filmography: _Volcano (2018), _Dixieland (2016), _Ukrainian Sheriffs (2015), __This film is an emotional story about the people who _Euromaidan. Rough Cut (2014), have constructed their city, are building it now and _Commemoration Day (2007), are trying to preserve it. About the people who created _Taxi Driver (2005) the masterpieces of modernism in the 1960-70s, about the architects who were famous back in the day but Director are forgotten nowadays. About the buildings that are Vadym Ilkov disappearing in the shade of new skyscrapers. And about the activists who are trying to enliven the buildings, give them new functions and add new vibrancy to their authors’ futuristic ideas. If you feed deliberate lies into #art, #current affairs, #social issues City as a link between people. Filmography: a computer, the lies will multiply _My Father Is My Mother’s and you’ll get a real mess. Brother (2018), _Waltz Alchevsk (2014)

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V. SYLVESTROV | В.СИЛЬВЕСТРОВ PLANNED RELEASE: 10/31/2019 | UA, 140’

Director Producer: Gennady Kofman Confirmed funding: EUR 7,000 Sergey Production company: Looking for: distributor, sales Looking for: funding, co-produc- Bukovsky MaGiKa Film agent, broadcaster, festival Gennady Kofman, [email protected], +380 50 597 49 27

Studied at: Kyiv State Karpenko-Karyi __The documentary film V. Sylvestrov, dedicated Theatre Arts Institute, to the Ukrainian composer Valentyn Sylvestrov, has Film Directing Faculty nothing in common with the traditional biopic about a prominent person. It is an observation, a confession Filmography (selected): and, above all, the story of a great talent against _Leading Role (2016), the background of uncertain times. Of course, the authors _Ukraine. The Starting pay due attention to the composer’s creative techniques: Point (2011), _The Living (2008), the avant-garde of the 1960s, which did not show much _Spell Your Name (2006) respect in the time of socialist realism; postmodernism, his central obsession during the 1970s; metaphorical music and contemporary pieces which charm the audience all around the world. YouIf youcannot feed deliberateforce the liesmusic into a computer, the lies will multi- #music, #culture, #creative toply come. and you’ll You canget aonly real waitmess. for it.

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ABOVE THE STYX______54 dir. Maria Stoianova BROTHERS IN ARMS______56 dir. Serhii Lysenko LIFELONG SONGS______58 dir. Ulyana Osovska

MY COSMOS______60 dir. Yuliia Appen, Natasha Tseliuba NATIONAL MUSEUM______62 dir. Andrei Zagdansky

OUR CHAPLAIN______64 dir. Serhii Lysenko

PROJECTIONIST______66 dir. Yuriy Shylov

RESERVE ASKANIA______68 dir. Andrii Lytvynenko

If you feed deliberate lies into THE DIVINERS______70 COMPLETEDa computer, the lies will multi- dir. Roman Bordun ply and you’ll get a real mess. FILMS THE ELF’S TOWER______72 dir. Polina Kelm

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ABOVE THE STYX|ПОНАД СТІКСОМ OneIf youvibrant feed deliberate day spent… lies into a computer, the lies RELEASE: 03/24/2019 | UA, 29’ atwill the multiply cemetery and you’llin Kyiv. get a real mess.

Director Producer: Maria Stoianova Confirmed funding: EUR 7,000 Maria Production company: Looking for: festival Stoianova The Sergey Bukovsky Film Program Sales: Maria Stoianova, [email protected] Events: Jury Special Mention, Docudays UA IHRDFF (2019), Filmography: Molodist IFF (2019), Wiz- _Above the Styx (2019, as editor, Art Lviv ISFF (2019), DOK producer, co-DOP), Leipzig (2019) _Ma (2017), _Expedition (2017), _Exarch (2014, as co-director) __Thousands come to the cemetery for Hrobky (Memorial Day) to commemorate their departed relatives, to get blessed, to celebrate life... It’s a wonderful tradition, isn’t it? __A short film by the graduates of the Sergey Bukovsky Film Program.

#anthropology, #human interest, #social issues, #religion

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BROTHERS IN ARMS|БРАТИ ПО ЗБРОЇ RELEASE: 03/26/2019 | UA, 60’

Director Producers: Serhii Supported by: Goethe-Institut Serhii Lysenko Lysenko, Myroslav Hai, (Germany) Costiantyn Mohylnyk-Iskra, Events: Docudays UA IHRDFF (2019) Kyrylo Nechmonia Production companies: LookingConfirmed for: funding: distributor, EUR 7,000 sales Generator Film Production, agent,Looking broadcaster, for: funding, festival co-produc- Mir&Co Production, Equites Kyrylo Nechmonia, Studied at: [email protected] Kyiv National Karpenko-Karyi Theatre, Film and Television University __The life of Ukrainian soldiers on the firing line, con- Filmography: versations with “grey zone” inhabitants, military battles, If you feed deliberate lies _Brothers in Arms (2018), Brief stories from the jokes, funerals, road accidents, and shelling—all of these into a computer, the lies _Encyclopedia of Maidan (2015), are combined into a journey to the world of war. Russian-Ukrainian war, _Amosov—The Centennial (2013), will multiply and you’ll get _Awakening (2011), collecteda real mess. by three vol- #human rights, #social issues _Heartbeat (2011), unteers who have been _Trap (2009), _Thaw (2008), travelling along the _From Stool to Mongolia (2006), frontline with humani- _Goat (2004) tarian cargoes for more than four years.

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LIFELONG SONGS|ДВІ НАДІЇ RELEASE: 03/24/2019 | UA, 38’

Director Producer: Denis Strashnyi Events: Docudays UA IHRDFF (2019) Ulyana Osovska Production company: Docutoloka LookingConfirmed for: funding: broadcaster, EUR 7,000 festi- Ulyana Osovska, val,Looking international for: funding, premiere co-produc- [email protected] Supported by: Ukrainian Cul- tural Foundation

Filmography: _The Fairy Tale about a Wood Horse (2020, in production), __Two different women are united not only by their com- _Lifelong Songs (2019), mon name, Nadia—which means “hope” in Ukrainian—but also _Almost 10,000 Voters (2017), by their deep love of songs. Some time ago, traditional _Election Agent (2015) songs were powerful collective meditations that accompa- nied people from birth to death. Nadia Mykytivna lives in ImmersionIf you feed intodeliberate the lives lies Kriachkivka village, and at 82, she is one of the few who into a computer, the lies still keep this fading tradition alive. Across the ocean, ofwill two multiply very different,and you’ll get in the United States, there is another Nadia. A short visit buta real equally mess. vibrant to Kriachkivka and hearing the traditional songs of that village changed her life. women gives rise to re- flections on the causes #music, #culture, #women and nature of the human desire to sing.

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MY COSMOS|МІЙ КОСМОС RELEASE: 02/20/2019 | UA, 10’

Director Producer: Natasha Tseliuba Events: AIFF (Ukraine, 2019), Yuliia Appen, Co-producer: Ella Shtyka Wiz-Art Lviv ISFF (2019), Natasha Production company: Zaporizhzhia IFF (2019), Istanbul Tseliuba Radio Surrealism International Architecture and Natasha Tseliuba, Urban Films Festival (2019) [email protected], +380 50 252 99 57 LookingConfirmed for: funding: producer, EUR distribu7,000 - tor,Looking sales for: agent, funding, festival co-produc- Filmography (common): _My Cosmos (2019), _Meanwhile (2016)

__The director returns to her home city and tells a story of her coming of age in Cosmos, a neighbourhood InIf whichyou feed neighborhood deliberate lies in Zaporizhzhia. She tries to define what Cosmos means into a computer, the lies to her. Is it a self-sufficient universe or a traumatic didwill you multiply spend and your you’ll get experience, a neighbourhood or a sensation? Or maybe it childhood?a real mess. What is your is a half-flimsy cinema? She managed to say goodbye to her brightest memory of that first home and changed her life. But is it necessary to say goodbye to the cosmos? area? How did it influ- ence you growing up? #art, #author’s point of view, #current affairs, #drama doc, Have you managed to say #experimental goodbye to the neighbor- hood?

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NATIONAL MUSEUM|НАЦІОНАЛЬНИЙ МУЗЕЙ RELEASE: 03/27/2020 | UA, USA, 92’

Director Producer: Gennady Kofman Co-production company: Andrei Co-producer: Andrei Zagdansky AZ Films LLC Zagdansky Production company: MaGiKa Film LookingConfirmed for: funding: distributor, EUR 7,000 sales Gennady Kofman, agent,Looking broadcaster, for: funding, festival co-produc- [email protected], +380 50 597 49 27

Studied at: Kyiv National Karpenko-Karyi Theatre, Film and Television __This “direct cinema” documentary explores the art and University inner workings of a major art institution in Kyiv, Ukraine. Curators, art handlers, restoration specialists, designers Filmography: and, of course, visitors are fascinating characters in this _National Museum (2019), unhurried, poignant and occasionally funny survey of what _Michail and Daniel (2018), is cherished and revered by the nation of forty-five million _Vagrich and the Black If you feed deliberate lies Square (2015), people. The curation, mounting and opening of two special This “direct cinema” exhibitions—one dedicated to the Ukrainian Baroque and into a computer, the lies _My Father Evgeni (2010), documentarywill multiply exploresand you’ll _Orange Winter (2007), the other to a prominent avant-garde artist—are the defining _Konstantin and Mouse (2006), events in the narrative structure of the film. theget arta real and mess. inner work- _Vasya (2002), ings of a major art _Interpretation of Dreams (1990) #art, #author’s point of view, #history institution in Kyiv, Ukraine.

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OUR CHAPLAIN|НАШ КАПЕЛАН RELEASE: 03/20/2020 | UA, 70’

Director Producer: Gennady Kofman Supported by: Ministry of Culture Serhii Lysenko Production company: of Ukraine MaGiKa Film Gennady Kofman, LookingConfirmed for: funding: sales agent,EUR 7,000 broad- [email protected], caster,Looking festivalfor: funding, co-produc- +380 50 597 49 27

Studied at: Kyiv National Karpenko-Karyi __The priest of a small Carpathian village and a farmer’s wife Theatre, Film and Television from Ternopil region became leaders for many people in Ukraine University and abroad in the violent times of war and revolution. __At the same time, we will see the price of their activity. Filmography: This film is the director’s memoir of his five-year If you feed deliberate lies _Brothers in Arms (2018), Military chaplain Me- friendship with a military chaplain Medynskyi and his into a computer, the lies _Encyclopedia of Maidan (2015), dynskyiwill multiply and hisand you’llas- get _Amosov—The Centennial (2013), assistant Kalyna. _Awakening (2011), sistanta real mess. Kalyna became _Heartbeat (2011), #current affairs, #human interest leaders for many people _Trap (2009), in the violent times _Thaw (2008), _From Stool to Mongolia (2006), of war and revolution in _Goat (2004) Ukraine. But what is the price of their activity?

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ПАНОРАМА ForIf you44 feedyears, deliberate Valentyn lies PROJECTIONIST| into a computer, the lies RELEASE: 07/01/2019 | UA, PL, 72’ haswill worked multiply as and a projecyou’ll -get tionista real mess. at one of the oldest movie theatres in Director Producers: Gennady Kofman, Supported by: Ukrainian State Film Yuriy Shylov Olha Beskhmelnytsina Agency, TVP (Poland) Kyiv. On his 60th birth- Co-producer: Events: Karlovy Vary IFF (2019), day, a fire breaks out in Miroslaw Dembinski Odesa IFF (2019) Production company: the cinema, and Valentyn MaGiKa Film LookingConfirmed for: funding: distributor, EUR 7,000 sales is forced to retire. The Gennady Kofman, agent,Looking broadcaster, for: funding, festival co-produc- man struggles to find a [email protected], Studied at: +380 50 597 49 27 new meaning in life in a Kyiv National Karpenko-Karyi Olha Beskhmelnytsina, rapidly changing country. Theatre, Film and Television [email protected] University

Filmography: __Valentyn is an eccentric projectionist. For 44 years, _Projectionist (2019), he has worked at one of the oldest movie theatres in Kyiv’s _Panorama (2016), city centre. In his projection booth, he drinks with war _Weight (2015) veterans, dances with the girls from the casting agency next door, or cuts his friend’s hair. Every day at work seems like another adventure. It all comes to an abrupt end when a fire breaks out in the cinema and Valentyn is forced to retire. He looks after his dying mother, rushing to help her the moment she calls. With an average life expectancy of 64 years for men in Ukraine, Valentyn is aware that he does not have much time left. Still, he fights desperately to find a new meaning in life in a rapidly changing country.

#creative, #human interest, #social issues

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RESERVE ASKANIA|ЗАПОВІДНИК АСКАНІЯ TheIf youbeauty feed ofdeliberate the lies into a computer, the lies RELEASE: 03/25/2019 | UA, 75’ Ukrainianwill multiply steppe. and you’ll Aska -get nia-Novaa real mess. is the largest steppe wildlife sanctu- Director Producer: Anna Palenchuk Events: Student Jury Award, Docu- Andrii Production company: days UA IHRDFF (2019), Special Jury ary in Europe. It is an Lytvynenko 435 FILMS Award in Black Sea Docs section, isolated kingdom where Anna Palenchuk, Pelicam Festival International de [email protected], Film (Romania, 2019) the fuss of city life has +1 778 751 50 45 been cancelled out. A Confirmed funding: EUR 7,000 Supported by: Ukrainian State Looking for: distributor, sales place to spend your whole Film Agency agent,Looking broadcaster, for: funding, festival co-produc- Studied at: Pre-sold territories: Ukraine life in. Well, let’s try? Kyiv National Karpenko-Karyi Theatre, Film and Television University; Andrzej Wajda Film School (Warsaw, Poland) __Askania-Nova is the largest steppe wildlife sanctuary in Europe. This “ark” has survived two World Wars and Filmography: the Soviet period, and “landed” on the shore of contempo- _Reserve Askania (2019), rary Ukraine. The present and the past are entangled in _VATTENTI (2017), the reality of this world. The film’s plot unfolds with its _Science Wins!!! (2017), _Up Anyway (2016), three protagonists whose destinies are intertwined because _Good Night, Kyiv City of the Reserve. All of them, like the Reserve itself, live Council (2014), as outsiders to the contemporary reality, but this helped _Around the Circle (2012), them preserve their unique flamboyance. Will our heroes be _Sign of the Invisible (2011) able to save the Ukrainian steppe?

#social issues, #nature, #ecology, #environment

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БОЖЕСТВЕННІ NewlywedsIf you feed in deliberate the subway, lies THE DIVINERS| into a computer, the lies RELEASE: 03/26/2019 | UA, 60’ taxis,will multiply casual and nights you’ll with get friends,a real mess. lovers, winter, summer, trains, streets… Director Producer: Roman Bordun Confirmed funding: EUR 7,000 Roman Bordun Production company: Looking for: producer, distribu- This is a story about Looking for: funding, co-produc- Roman Bordun, tor, sales agent, festival life that passes through [email protected] Events: DOK Leipzig (2019), the seasons of our time Docudays UA IHRFF (2019) in Kyiv, Odesa and Lviv.

Filmography: _The Diviners (2019) __The film’s protagonists are residents of the contemporary Ukrainian cities of Kyiv, Odesa and Lviv. Their reality is multi-layered, unvarnished, deprived of unambiguous inter- pretations of good and evil, humanity and cruelty, charity and indifference. This story is a kaleidoscope which fea- tures all of us: the righteous, the merciless, the funny, the naïve. The honest.

#road movie

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THE ELF’S TOWER|ЕЛЬФОВА ВЕЖА RELEASE: 04/2020 | UA, PL, 100’

Director Producers: Gennady Kofman, Supported by: PISF (Poland), Polina Kelm Miroslaw Dembinski Ukrainian State Film Agency, IDFA Production company: Bertha Fund (Netherlands) MaGiKa Film Pre-sold territories: Poland, Gennady Kofman, Benelux [email protected], +380 50 597 49 27 LookingConfirmed for: funding: distributor, EUR 7,000 sales Co-production company: Film agent,Looking broadcaster, for: funding, festival co-produc- Studied at: Studio Everest (Łódź, Poland) Kyiv National Karpenko-Karyi Miroslaw Dembinski, Theatre, Film and Television [email protected], University +42 42 676 75 41 Filmography: ThoseIf you whofeed happen deliberate to getlies _Positive (2014), into a computer, the lies __Those who happen to get into a mental health institution into a mental health in- _One Step to the Holiday (2012) strive to leave it as soon as possible and never go back. will multiply and you’ll get Having come to the hospital, Serhii not only stays there—he stitutiona real mess. strive to leave starts his own theatre. This is a theatre where patients play it as soon as possible on the stage alongside amateur teens and even Serhii’s own and never go back. Having children. They all work together at staging a play written come to the hospital, by one of the patients, called The Elf’s Tower. As he entered the hospital, he did not just see patients there, he saw Serhii not only stays elfpeople. His aim is to return the patients to the world, there—he starts his own but first to return them to themselves. Does he want to help theatre. patients, change the world, or fullfil himself?

#author’s point of view, #human rights, #social issues

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CIVIL PITCH: CIVIL ACTIVISM FILMS

_Both representatives of the non- governmental sector and film directors want to achieve change in society, each in their own way. By joining their experience, knowledge, and efforts, they are able to create films on urgent social topics, interesting for a wide audience. _CIVIL PITCH: Civil Activism Films provided a new platform for documentary filmmakers and civil rights activists launched by Docudays UA in 2018. Its aim is to facilitate the production of documentary films on the topics which are important and urgent, but not widely discussed in our societies. _6 civil rights activists and 6 film di- rectors were selected out of 100 applica- tions to work together. 4 film ideas got FACADE COLOUR: BLUE______76 dir. Oleksiy Radynski financing in March 2018. 4 short docu- mentaries were presented at Docudays UA NO STATUS. UKRAINE______78 If you feed deliberate lies into in Kyiv in March 2019. Now they are ready dir. Dmytro Tiazhlov CIVILa computer, the PITCH lies will multi- to travel the world. ply and you’ll get a real mess. __These films were produced as part of SHUT THE FUCK UP!______80 the project implemented under the USAID/ dir. Taisiia Kutuzova ENGAGE activity, which is funded by the United States Agency for International WHILE YOU STAY WITH ME______82 Development (USAID) and implemented by Pact. dir. Yuliia Kochetova-Nabozhniak

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КОЛІР ФАСАДУ: СИНІЙ TheIf youright feed to deliberate the city lies is FACADE COLOUR: BLUE| into a computer, the lies RELEASE: 03/23/2019 | UA, 22’ thewill right multiply to andthe you’llUFO! get a real mess.

Director Producer: Lyuba Knorozok Events: Oberhausen IFF (2019), Oleksiy Production company: Docudays UA IHRDFF (2019), Radynski Kinotron Group Molodist IFF (2019), KISFF (2019) Oleksiy Radynski, [email protected] LookingConfirmed for: funding: distributor, EUR 7,000 sales Lyuba Knorozok, agent,Looking broadcaster, for: funding, festival co-produc- [email protected]

Filmography: _Deliberate Lies (in production), _Florian’s Witnesses (in produc- __Florian Yuriev is an architect, artist, luthier, theorist tion), and poet. Approaching his 90th anniversary, he’s compelled _Facade Colour: Blue (2019), to master one more occupation—something entirely new for him. _The Film of Kyiv. Episode He stages a fight against the corrupt property developers who One (2017), _Landslide (2016), plan to build a shopping mall in place of Florian’s architec- _People Who Came To Power tural magnum opus: the UFO building in Kyiv. (2015, codirected by Tomáš Rafa), _ This film was developed within the Civil Pitch: Civil Activ- _Integration (2014), ism Films project. _Incident in the Museum (2013) #art, #current affairs, #social issues

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NO STATUS. UKRAINE|БЕЗ СТАТУСУ. УКРАЇНА RELEASE: 03/23/2019 | UA, 35’

Director Producer: Ella Shtyka Confirmed funding: EUR 7,000 and DOP Production company: Looking for: distributor, sales Looking for: funding, co-produc- Dmytro Ella Shtyka, agent, festival Tiazhlov [email protected] Events: Docudays UA IHRDFF (2019)

Studied at: Kyiv National Karpenko-Karyi __Russian citizens who rebelled against the authoritari- Theatre, Film and Television an policies of Moscow are seeking asylum in Ukraine. Alexey University Vetrov is a political refugee from Russia, he is trying to obtain refugee status in Ukraine. Despite all the bur- Filmography: _No Status. Ukraine (2019), dens of living without documents, he works and participates _Reforms United (2016), in many civil actions. Nurkhan, a journalist, was forced _Highnoon Winti (2015), to escape after she covered the so-called Osh massacre in Kyrgyzstan. Now she and her three teenage daughters are _Live Power (2015), If you feed deliberate lies _Post Maidan (2014), seeking asylum in Ukraine. Are they welcome here? Obtaining refugee status into a computer, the lies _Cornered (2013), _ This film was developed within the Civil Pitch: Civil Activ- inwill Ukraine multiply is and one you’ll of get _Music Box. Kyiv Outpost (2013), ism Films project. _Via Regia–800 Years of Mobility thea real most mess. difficult and and Movement (2010), #human rights, #social issues, #investigative unpredictable challenges _I Am a Monument to Myself (2009), _The Difficult One (2007), for asylum seekers. _Important Man (2007), _Austerlitz 2005–1805 (2006)

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SHUT THE FUCK UP!|ТИ, БЛЯ, РОТА ЗАКРИЙ! RELEASE: 03/23/2019 | UA, 26’

Director Producers: Events: Docudays UA IHRDFF (2019) Taisiia Yelyzaveta Sokurenko, Kutuzova Taisiia Kutuzova LookingConfirmed for: funding: festival, EUR 7,000broad- Production company: cast,Looking distributor, for: funding, sales co-produc agent, - Taisiia Kutuzova, producerer, distributor, sales agent, [email protected]

Filmography: _Shut the Fuck Up! (2019), __A 17-year-old activist Serhii is fighting against corrup- _Youth 1927 (2017), tion in his home village of Hatne near Kyiv. His weapons are _Alive and Undefeated (2016) documents and journalistic texts. During one of the village council’s meetings, a councillor whom Serhii had accused of corruption attacked the activist and publicly threatened him. All the major Ukrainian media wrote about this case. For SerhiiIf you feedChaharov deliberate has lies into a computer, the lies them, Serhii is a hero. But for some people from the village, fought against corrup- he is a shame. He receives threats and is advised to “stay will multiply and you’ll get away from adult business.” And one night, an explosive device tiona real in mess. his home village is placed in his yard. of Hatne near Kyiv since __This film was developed within the Civil Pitch: Civil Activ- he was 15 years old. For ism Films project. some, he is a hero. But #drama doc, #current affairs, #human rights, #social issues, for others, he’s a shame. #tragicomedy

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WHILE YOU STAY WITH ME|ПОКИ ВИ ВСІ ЗІ МНОЮ RELEASE: 03/23/2019 | UA, 16’

Director Producer: Events: Docudays UA IHRDFF (2019) Yuliia Yuliia Kochetova-Nabozhniak Kochetova- Production company: LookingConfirmed for: funding: festival, EUR broadcast,7,000 Nabozhniak Yuliia Kochetova-Nabozhniak, distributorLooking for: funding, co-produc- [email protected]

Filmography: __The only thing we want is to feel that we are needed. _While You Stay With Me (2019), Sometimes we want to scream about it. A story of therapy _A Ukrainian Love Story (2019), in a group of sex workers. _In Between (2017), __This film was developed within the Civil Pitch: Civil Activ- _See You Later (2016) ism Films project.

#drama doc, #human rights, #social issues

AIf story you feed of therapydeliberate in lies into a computer, the alies group will of multiply sex workers. and you’ll get a real mess.

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HEAT SINGERS______86 dir. Nadia Parfan If you feed deliberate lies into DOCUDAYSa computer, the lies willUA multi- HOME GAMES______88 ply and you’ll get a real mess. dir. Alisa Kovalenko RECOMMENDS MY FATHER IS MY MOTHER’S BROTHER_90 dir. Vadym Ilkov BEST OF 2018-2019 THE WINTER GARDEN’S TALE______92 dir. Simon Mozgovyi

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HEAT SINGERS|СПІВАЄ ІВАНО-ФРАНКІВСЬКТЕПЛОКОМУНЕНЕРГО RELEASE: 04/10/2019 | UA, 64’

Director Producer: Illia Gladshtein Events: Visions du Réel, Krakow FF, Nadia Parfan Production company: Odesa IFF, Astra FF, Artdocfest, Phalanstery Films Trieste FF, DokuBaku IDFF Illia Gladshtein, [email protected] LookingConfirmed for: funding: festival, EUR broadcast,7,000 distributorLooking for: funding, co-produc-

Studied at: Andrzej Wajda Film School (Warsaw, Poland) __TeploKomunEnergo is a municipal heating company in the city of Ivano-Frankivsk. Five days a week, its workers have Filmography: to deal with fountaining radiators, flooded basements and If you feed deliberate _Heat Singers (2019), angry clients. Among other official duties, every Wednesday Music is born out of lies into a computer, the _Housewarming (2017), they come together in a recital room and sing in the Teplo- thelies crumbling will multiply central and _Reve ta Stohne on Tour (2016), KomunEnergo union choir. This is a story about the central _Exarch (2014) heatingyou’ll get system a real of mess. heating system as a symbol of modern Ukraine. It explores how outdated social structures do not fit into the modern economy Ukraine, as a team but, paradoxically, continue to function. Traces of working of devoted pipefitters class culture and human warmth serve as a survival mechanism rush from home to home in times of transition. to tame hot fountains #anthropology, #creative, #human, #interest, #music and… to sing!

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HOME GAMES|ДОМАШНІ ІГРИ RELEASE: 06/08/2018 | UA, 86’

Director Producers: Stephane Selections in festivals: Selected Alisa Siohan (France), in over 65 festivals, including Kovalenko Maxym Vasyanovych, IDFA Amsterdam, Sheffield Doc/Fest, Valentyn Vasyanovych, One World Prague, Docs Against Mirek Dembinski (Poland) Gravity Warsaw, Fipadoc Biarritz, Production companies: Docudays UA IHRDFF, goEast, DOK. East Roads Films (France) Fest München, DocPoint–Helsinki FF, [email protected] Tempo Stockholm DF, Cleveland IFF, Studied at: Studio Garmata Film EDOC Quito, Crossing Europe Linz FF. Kyiv National Karpenko-Karyi [email protected] Theatre, Film and Television Sales agent: LookingConfirmed for: funding: sales, EURbroadcasters, 7,000 University; Andrzej Wajda Film Syndicado FS festivalsLooking for: funding, co-produc- School (Warsaw, Poland) [email protected] A seasonIf you feedin thedeliberate life Filmography: lies into a computer, the _Home Games (2018), of liesAlina, will amultiply 20-year- and _Alisa in Warland (2015), oldyou’ll girl getfrom a reala poor mess. _Sister Zo (2014) __This is the story of Alina, a 20-year-old girl from family in Kyiv. Alina’s a poor family in Kyiv who has a chance to be rescued two biggest loves are Awards and nominations for Home Games: through football. She’s about to join the Ukrainian nation- 8 international awards, including Best al team when life throws a new challenge at her: her mother football and her younger documentary award at Odesa IFF, Listapad Minsk IFF, goEast, Wales IFF. Special dies, leaving her with two little siblings. Now, Alina must siblings. But she will mention of the jury at Artdocfest. choose: football or family. soon have to choose be- Nominated for the Silver Eye Award tween them. at Ji.hlava IDFF, at the Prix Europa #adventure&sports, #creator’s point of view, #creative, Berlin and for the Golden Dzyga-2019 in #current affairs, #gender, #drama doc, #human interest, the category Best Ukrainian Documentary. #human rights, #social issues, #sports

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MY FATHER IS MY MOTHER’S BROTHER|ТАТО — МАМИН БРАТ RELEASE: 04/17/2018 | UA, 76’

Director Producers: Awards: Visions du Réel (2018), Vadym Ilkov Valentyn Vasyanovych, Camden IFF (2018), Thessaloniki Iya Myslytska, Darya Bassel, IDFF (2019), CinéDOC-Tbilisi (2019), Maxym Vasyanovych Pärnu Film Festival (2019), Production company: Odesa IFF (2019) Garmata Film Festivals (selected): Hot Docs Sales company: Feelsales, (2018), Vilnius IDFF (2018), [email protected] Artdocfest (2018), Watch Docs Studied at: Darya Bassel, (2018), Docudays UA IHRDFF (2019), Kyiv National Karpenko-Karyi [email protected], Global Cinema Film Festival of Bos- Theatre, Film and Television +380 93 906 13 42 ton (2019), Shanghai IFF (2019) University LookingConfirmed for: funding: broadcasters, EUR 7,000 fes- If you feed deliberate Filmography: tivalsLooking for: funding, co-produc- Tolik,lies intoa bohemian a computer, art -the _Rozdilovi Live (2019), ist,lies becomes will multiply a father and _My Father Is My Mother’s Brother (2018), to you’llhis five-year-old get a real mess. _Waltz Alchevsk (2014) __In this touching family narrative, a bohemian singer/ niece when his sister’s artist becomes a father to his five-year-old niece when mental health deteri- his sister’s mental health deteriorates, and finds himself orates. From now on, awkwardly balancing fairy tales and playtime with his rowdy his rowdy nightlife and nightlife and provocative art. provocative art must be #creative, #social issues, #family balanced with playtime and fairy tales.

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THE WINTER GARDEN’S TALE|ІСТОРІЯ ЗИМОВОГО САДУ RELEASE: 10/28/2018 | UA, 75’

Director Producers: Oleksandr Chepiga, mentary Feature of September at Simon Mozgovyi Taras Bosak, Artem Koliubaiev the Dumbo FF (2019-2020), Eastern Production company: Neighbours FF (2019), Kharkiv Meet- Mainstream Pictures LLC, Docs (2019), MakeDox CDFF (2019), [email protected], Full Frame DFF, DOK Leipzig (2018), +380 67 508 70 87 Ji.hlava IDFF (2018) Sales company: 86 PROKAT Events: Best Ukrainian LookingConfirmed for: funding: distributor, EUR 7,000 broad- Studied: Film Award at Docudays caster,Looking festivalfor: funding, co-produc- Cinema and Television Arts IHRDFF (2019), Best Docu- at Kharkiv State Academy of Cul- ture (B.A.) If you feed deliberate Filmography: __The film’s narrative is based on the fate of the Flori- After decades of sta- lies into a computer, the _Salt from Bonneville (2020, culture Pavilion and its long-term employee Mrs. Valen- bility in this kingdom in production), tyna Voronina, who has maintained this space and invested lies will multiply and _The Winter Garden’s Tale (2018) her own life in supporting this centre. Suddenly she faces of you’llplants, get personnela real mess. unexpected changes. After forty-five years of work, she is changes are coming. But asked to retire. But Mrs. Voronina doesn’t agree with it, the past doesn’t want because she believes that all the plants will die without to go away. This film is her. At the same time, a group of mysterious radiesthesists find a powerful channel of positive energy near the pavilion about something bigger entrance. than just a story of a garden. #creator’s point of view, #drama doc, #human interest, #social issues

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ABOVE THE STYX______54 MY FATHER IS MY MOTHER’S BROTHER__90 Appen, Yuliia______60 Strashnyi, Denis______46 Bondarchuk, Roman______48 BETWEEN TWO WARS______10 Tiazhlov, Dmytro______28, 78 NATIONAL MUSEUM______62 Bordun, Roman______70 Tseliuba, Natasha______60 BROTHERS IN ARMS______56 NO STATUS. UKRAINE______78 Bukovsky, Sergey______50 Tsilyk, Iryna______44 DELIBERATE LIES______12 Dianova, Alina______34 Zagdansky, Andrei______62 OUR CHAPLAIN______64 Gorlova, Alina______10 Zhurba, Olha______38 DIARY OF A BRIDE OF CHRIST______14 PROJECTIONIST______66 Ilkov, Vadym______48, 90 ELVIS______16 Ivanko, Ihor______20 RESERVE ASKANIA______68 Kelm, Polina______72 FACADE COLOUR: BLUE______76 ROMA______38 Khersonsky, Michael______42 FLORIAN’S WITNESSES______18 ROSES. FILM-CABARET______40 Kochetova-Nabozhniak, Yuliia______82 Kovalenko, Alisa______88 FRAGILE MEMORY______20 SHUT THE FUCK UP!______80 Kutuzova, Taisiia______80 FRAGMENTS OF ICE______22 SIGNERBUSTERS______42 Lohvynenko, Bohdan______24 Lysenko, Serhii______32, 56, 64 FROM THE FOREST______24 THE DIVINERS______70 Lysetskyi, Andrii______30 GREEK WIFE______26 THE EARTH IS BLUE AS AN ORANGE__44 Lytvynenko, Andrii______68 HEAT SINGERS______86 Moshenska, Polina______26 THE ELF’S TOWER______72 Mozgovyi, Simon______92 HOME GAMES______88 THE FAIRY TALE ABOUT A WOOD HORSE_46 Nakonechnyi, Maksym______16 HZV, ADEQUATELY YOURS______28 THE WINTER GARDEN’S TALE______92 Nosok, Mykola______24 Osovska, Ulyana______46, 58 IVAN’S LAND______30 TO BUILD A CITY______48 Parfan, Nadia______36, 86 LAGOONS______32 V.SYLVESTROV______50 Pashko, Pavlo______24 Radynski, Oleksiy______12, 18, 76 LIFELONG SONGS______58 WHILE YOU STAY WITH ME______82 Shylov, Yuriy______66 MAMAS WITHOUT BORDERS______34 Smerechynska, Marta______14 MISS ROCK EUROPE______36 Stetsenko, Irena______40 Stoianova, Maria______22, 54 MY COSMOS______60

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