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2017-2018 4 GREETINGS Head of theUkrainianState Film Agency Pylyp Illienko Thus, Iinvite you to meet thenew Ukrainiandocumentary cinema. to show itto theworld. film professionals. We’re creatingour own history and we’re eager up-and-coming filmmakers, as well as experienced andrespected interpret theworld to Ukrainiansthroughpointof view of both documentaries thatshow currentUkraineto theworld and timewe collectFor thefourth inonepocketbook theUkrainian understanding, andawareness of ourselvesandtheworld aroundus. of documentarythe art iscapableof changingone’s worldview, documentary filmsareable to strongly influence thesociety, since documentary filmsreact to suchchangesthefastest. Moreover, true Our country andtheworld aroundusarechanging rapidly, Documentary FilmsCatalog. We’re happy editionof to theUkrainian presentthefourth Dear friends, 34 mins Pylyp Illienko Like Comment Share Programm Director atDocudaysUA Gennady Kofman attract your audiences.attract your currently ondifferent stagesof productionwhichwe hope, will years orwillbereleasedsoon, aswell astheprojects thatare documentary filmswhichhavebeen releasedinthepasttwo editionof thecatalogwe’reIn thefourth presentingthecreative with interesting stories andcharacters. Ukrainian producers arereliablepartners, andUkraineisblooming production. Ourforeign colleagues arebecoming convinced that counties. With each year moreandfilms are beingmadein co- and moreoften win, atmany prestigiousfilm festivals in various names havesurfaced. Today Ukrainiandocumentariesparticipate, industry sectors. New generationshavecome, new filmmakers’ rapidly. CinemainUkraine isnow oneof thefastest growing In recent years thefilmlandscape to changeof Ukraine started 45 mins Gennady Kofman &DocudaysUA team Like Comment Share

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The festival is held annually in the last week of March in Kyiv. On completion, we traditionally present the best movies in the regions of Ukraine within the Travelling Festival.

Call for entries is opened every year from July 1 till December 10 @docudays.ua 18°C СПІВАЄ ІВАНО-ФРАНКІВСЬКТЕПЛОКОМУНЕНЕРГО ERD: 3/20/2018 UA 85’

Producer: Illia Gladshtein Budget: 50000 EUR / Confirmed: 45000 EUR DOP: Dmytro Burko, Vasyl Hoshovsky Supported by: Ukrainian State Film Agency, Sound: Andriy Borisenko Current Time TV, Lviv Film Commission, 86PROKAT Director Production company: Looking For: sales agent, broadcaster, festival Nadia Parfan Phalanstery Films

WORK IN PROGRESS WORK Illia Gladshtein [email protected]

filmmaker, creative producer of MyStreetFilm- sUkraine series, co-founder of “86” IFFU in TeploKomunEnergo is a municipal heating company in the city of Slavutych Ivano-Frankivsk. Most of its workers are of same age as the company. Five Studied Cultural Studies at Kyiv-Mohyla Academy days per week they have to deal with fountaining radiators, flooded base- Studied Social Anthropology at CEU ments and angry clients. Among other official duties, every Wednesday Studied Geography and Urban Studies at Temple University, Philadelphia they come together to a recital room and sing in a TeploKomunEnergo union choir. This is a story about central heating system as a symbol Studied documentary film directing at Andrzej Wajda Film School of modern Ukraine. It explores how outdated social structures do not fit into modern economy, but, paradoxically, continue to function. Lives in Kyiv, Ukraine From Ivano-Frankivsk, Western Ukraine Traces of working class culture and human warmth serve as a survival mechanism in the times of transition. Manages “86” IFFU in Slavutych Music is born out of the crumbling central heating #anthropology #creative #human #interest Filmography: Housewarming (10’, UA-PL, 2017), system of Ukraine, as a team of devoted pipe-fitters Reve ta Stohne on Tour (30’, UA, 2016), Exarch (10’, UA, 2014), Eastern Neighbors, devilde rush from home to home to tame hot fountains and… to sing! 8 ALGORITHM АЛГОРИТМ ERD: 11/15/2019 SE UA 90’

Producer: Sasha Nabieva Budget: 307000 EUR DOP: Dmitry Shovkoplyas Supported by: Dixit International Malcolm Dixelius Co-Producer: Malcom Dixelius

Director Production company: Looking For: financing, co-producer, distributor, broadcaster, festival Dmitry Shovkoplyas Sasha Nabieva

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filmmaker Viktor Hlushkov, a Soviet scientist and a founder of the Soviet cybernetics Studied at National Technical University of Ukraine school in the 1960s. Glushkov supposed: there probably will be time when the complete transfer of human intelligence, feelings, and emotions into Studied at Kyiv National Karpenko-Kary Theater, Film, and TV University the digital medium will be possible –perpetuating a personality, gaining

Lives in Kyiv, Ukraine a human immortality. The thing that seemed Utopian in the 60s From Kyiv, Ukraine is a possible scenario today. What will it do to our world when we get For the first time in the history of humankind, the opportunity to save the personality on a digital medium? Does it Filmography: Mammoth (USA/UA, researcher, cybernetics allows us to take a look into the future. cinematographer, 2016), Russian Woodpecker mean that we can edit, copy and merge one personality with another? (USA/UK/UA, cinematographer, 2015) Already at the present stage of development of Nowadays we deal with a huge data flow. In that flow “truth”and “decep- cybernetics, one can raise the issue of perpetuat- tion” never have been so conditional. ing a personality, of human immortality. #archives #creative #docufiction

10 BETWEEN TWO WARS ПОМІЖ ВІЙН ERD: 11/10/2019 UA LV 90’

Producer: Maksym Nakonechnyi Budget: 142312 EUR / Confirmed: 125567 EUR Our world today goes trough hectic times. DOP: Vyacheslav Tsvetkov Supported by: Ukrainian State Film Agency, IDFA Bertha Fund, Co-Producer: Ilona Bicevska Latvian National Film Center Director Sound: Vasyl Yavtushenko Looking For: financing, co-producer, distributor, Alina Gorlova Production company: sales agent, broadcaster, festival WORK IN PROGRESS WORK Tabor, Maksym Nakonechny [email protected]

director, film editor The story about one big Kurdish family from Syria, which was spread Studied at Kyiv National Karpenko-Kary Theater, Film, and TV University through the world because of war. They try to find their place and save the contact between each other, fighting this huge black and white war Lives in Ukraine From Ukraine machine in each own way. #creative #current #affairs #social issues Filmography: No Obvious Signs (UA, 2018), Kholodny Yar. Intro (UA, 2016), Grandma (UA, 2014), The First Step in the Clouds (UA, 2012), Heart Transplant (UA, 2011)

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12 14 WORK IN PROGRESS ЗАЛІЗНА СОТНЯ COMPANYSTEEL OF Arms (UA, 2014), Alchoholic (UA, 2013), Strongerthan Filmography: Kaleidoscope (UA, 2011), Lives inKyiv, Ukraine University of Theater, Film, and TV Studied FilmDirecting atKarpenko-Kary National University at Kyiv Polytechnic Institute National Technical Studied creative association Union of Ukraine, member of theBabylon’13 filmmaker, member of Thermal Energy andProcess Engineering Ten Seconds (UA, 2016) The NationalFilmmakers Yulia Hontaruk Director #docu fiction#dramadoc #human interest#social issues experiencing... tribulations coincided intime withthewithdrawalsthatUkrainehasbeen But they have changedjustlike theworld aroundthem. Their wounds and to come back homealive, attempting to rebuildtheirlivesfromscratch. guys whowent throughbombardments, deathsof friends, andbetrayal went to waras volunteers. “Company of Steel” isamovie about young thousands of other young fellows, withoutafighting experience, they been working in TV; Andrey thePotter usedto beajeweler. Justlike Lyosha, callsign Tantsor, usedto beascout; Sergey theShakhtahas Composer: Anton Baibakov Editor: Petro Tsymbal,Yuliia Hontaruk Yulia Hontaruk DOP: DenisStrashnyi, Yuriy Gruzinov, Scriptwriter: Yulia Hontaruk Oksana Kosyk Producer: IgorSavychenko, broadcaster, festivals Looking For:financing, distributor, salesagent, Ukrainian State Film Agency by: Supported Budget: 100000EUR/Confirmed: 70000EUR +380504416049 Yuliia Hontaruk, [email protected], Directory Films Production company: Sound: Andriy Rogachov, Andriy Nidzelskiy ERD: 2019UA90’ attempting to rebuildtheirlivesfromscratch. of friends, andbetrayalto come back homealive, who went throughbombardments, deaths “Company of Steel” isamovie about young guys DELIBERATE LIES НАВМИСНА ОМАНА ERD: 3/1/2020 UA PL 60’

Producer: Lyuba Knorozok Budget: 120344 EUR Scriptwriter: Oleksiy Radynski Looking For: financing, co-producer, distributor, DOP: Max Savchenko sales agent, broadcaster, festival Director Production company: Oleksiy Radynski Inspiration Films

WORK IN PROGRESS WORK Lyuba Knorozok, +380509687154 [email protected]

filmmaker, writer “If you feed the computer with deliberate lies, these lies will multiply and Lives in Kyiv, Ukraine you’ll get a real mess.” These are the words of Viktor Hlushkov, a visionary Works at Visual Culture Research Center mathematician who came up with a project that we now call ‘the Soviet Internet.’ When Hlushkov’s project was one step from being implemented, Filmography: The Film of Kyiv. Episode One (UA, 2017), Landslide (UA, 2016), he was told by the top party officials that he had to wait. Instead of build- People Who Came To Power (UA, 2015, co-directed by Tomas Rafa), Integration (UA, 2014), ing a network for the circulation data, he was asked to create a pipeline Incident in the Museum (UA, 2013) network for the circulation of fossil fuels. This network, named Druzhba, operates to this day, transporting oil from Siberia to Europe through Ukraine. This is a story about massive misuse of technology created “If you feed the computer with deliberate lies, these by the visionary mind. lies will be multiplied and you’ll get a real mess” #archives #current affairs #experimental #history #human interest #human rights #social issues

16 DEMON БЕС ERD: 2019 UA 90’

Producers: Olga Beskhmelnytsina, Budget: 80000 EUR / Confirmed: 54000 EUR Vitaliy Sheremetiev Supported by: DOP: Yegor Troyanovsky Ministry of Culture of Ukraine, IDFA Bertha Fund, Latvian National Film Center Director Sound: Victor Savin financing, co-producer, distributor, Production company: Looking For: Yegor sales agent, broadcaster, festival WORK IN PROGRESS WORK Troyanovsky DGTL RLGN, +380503122949 [email protected]

director, editor The film investigates the kidnapping and alleged murder of a soldier Studied at Kyiv National Karpenko-Kary Theater, Film, and TV University in Donbas, in 2014. Together with his father, an elderly fisherman from Southern Ukraine, we follow the trail of his captors. Traveling from Lives in Kyiv, Ukraine From Moscow, Russia the calm Azov coastline to industrial conglomerates, from the furious mining region to the sleepless capital, we try to find the witnesses Filmography: Aerodrome (UA, 2015), Rear (UA, 2015) of the young soldier’s final hours, as well as those who could have seen his body. The film uses a wide range of video and audio material including news, voice recordings and interviews. Its complex narrative construction shows the long and winding path of a father who seeks justice for his son’s murderers. #documentary #thriller The long and winding path of a father who seeks justice for his son’s murderers. 18 DEPTH ГЛИБИНА ERD: 2020 UA 75’

Producer: Darya Bassel Budget: 80000 EUR / Confirmed: 4500 EUR DOP: Vadym Ilkov Supported by: Ukrainian Cultural Foundation “Depth” is the story about the crew of a fishing Production company: Director Darya Bassel Looking For: financing, co-producer, distributor, trawler stationed in Mariupol. The men spend +380939061342 sales agent, festival Vadym Ilkov [email protected] most of their lives locked up inside an iron vessel WORK IN PROGRESS WORK when they go into the open sea. This is when their

filmmaker, director of photography vulnerabilities are revealed. of Mariupolis (2016) by Mantas Kvedaravicius The documentary film “Depth” is the story about the crew of a fishing and Volcano (2018) by Roman Bondarchuk trawler stationed in Mariupol. The men spend most of their lives locked Studied at Kyiv National Karpenko-Kary up inside an iron vessel when they go into the open sea. This is when Theater, Film, and TV University their vulnerabilities are revealed. Their days are filled with monotonous Studied at Gaude Polonia in Poland and hard work. This work sucks the life out of them and doesn’t allow Lives in Kyiv, Ukraine them to leave the city, which is caught between the threat of war and

Waltz Alchevsk (54’, UA, 2014), My Father environmental catastrophe. Is My Mother’s Brother (76’, UA, 2018) #creator’s point of view #creative #human interest

20 THE EARTH IS BLUE AS AN ORANGE ЗЕМЛЯ БЛАКИТНА НІБИ АПЕЛЬСИН ERD: 10/20/2019 UA 70’

Producer: Anna Kapustina Budget: 130000 EUR / Confirmed: 80000 EUR Production company: Supported by: Albatros Communicos Ukrainian State Film Agency Ukraine Film Production Director Looking For: financing, distributor, sales agent, festival Iryna Tsilyk WORK IN PROGRESS WORK

director, writer, author Military operations have been ongoing in the East of Ukraine for 4 years Lives in Ukraine now. Many people from the civilian population were injured, lost their Blue Hour (UA, 2008), Commemoration (UA, 2012), homes. But the life goes on. Although the life in a war zone is quite Home (UA, 2016); Invisible Battalion (UA, 2017) surreal. Especially, if you are a teenager. #creator’s point of view #history #human interest # human rights #social issues

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Mines are still falling, but children in a war zone want to live, laugh, love, learn, and even shoot their own films. 22 THE ELF’S TOWER ЕЛЬФОВА ВЕЖА ERD: 2019 UA PL 90’

Producers: Mirosław Dembiński, Budget: 200000 EUR / Confirmed: 175000 EUR Gennady Kofman Supported by: DOP: Yevheniia Bondarenko, Ukrainian State Film Agency, IDFA Bertha Fund Sofiia Gerasimova Director Looking For: financing, distributor, sales agent, Production company: broadcaster, festival Polina Kelm MaGiKa Film, Gennady Kofman, WORK IN PROGRESS WORK 380505974927 [email protected] Production company: filmmaker Film Studio Everest, Mirosław Dembińsk [email protected] Studied Film Directing at Kyiv National Karpen- ko-Kary Theater, Film, and TV University

Lives in Kyiv, Ukraine Those who happen to get into a mental health institution strive to leave From Ukraine it as soon as possible and never go back. Having come to the hospital, Serhiy not only stays there, he starts his own theater. This is a theater Filmography: One Step to the Holiday (2012), Positive (2014) where patients play on the stage alongside amateur teens and even Serhiy’s own children. They all work together at staging the play written by one of the patients, called The Elf’s Tower. She wrote a metaphoric tale, where the protagonist, an elf, finds himself in a harsh, ravenous city Having come into a mental hospital Serhiy not only of people. The Elf wants to give people the gift of wings to lift them stays – he starts his own theatre. He is trying to return up over daily routine. Although, only a handicapped girl believes him interest to the lives of the patients. But what really and manages to fly high over the city, people and their problems... drives him? Does he want to help patients, change #human interest #social issues #creator’s point of view the world, or fulfill himself? 24 THE FAIRY TALE ABOUT THE HOBBYHORSE КАЗКА ПРО КОНИКА ERD: 3/30/2020 UA 75’ A fairy tale for children based on real stories from

Producers: Ulyana Osovska, Looking For: financing, producer, co-producer, the war and the true story of an old man, who Director Denis Strashnyi distributor, sales agent, broadcaster, festival came up with the idea to write it. Ulyana Osovska DOP: Denis Strashnyi Production company: Docutoloka WORK IN PROGRESS WORK director, producer, social activist, traveler Denis Strashnyi, +380632025004 [email protected] Studied International Business at Kyiv National Economic University 70 years old Anatoly, an oblate of the Cistercian Order is an artist- Lives in Kyiv, Ukraine conceptualist and a dissident who fled Soviet Ukraine in the past. Filmography: Election Agent (15’, UA, 2015), Once upon a time he made a vow that he will find something good, Almost 10.000 Voters (63’, UA, 2017) learn something new and create something with his own hands every day. Affected by the recent war in Ukraine, Anatoly, who for already 4 years brings humanitarian aid to the conflict area, has created a wooden Director Denis Strashnyi Hobbyhorse, a symbol of volunteer. With the help of the Hobbyhorse Anatoly wants to speak to the world about the absurdity of the war and the fragility of the natural environment which is being damaged by director, producer, director of photography human conflicts.

Studied Film and TV Photography at #animated #creative #human interest Kyiv International University

Filmography: Election Agent (15’, UA, 2015), Almost 10.000 Voters (63’, UA, 2017) 26 FROM UKRAINE TO HOLLYWOOD З УКРАЇНИ ДО ГОЛЛІВУДУ ERD: 11/25/2019 UA 70’

Producers: Julia Chernyavska, Budget: 108377 EUR / Confirmed: 92121 EUR Oleg Shcherbyna Director Supported by: Galyna Kuvivchak-Sakhno DOP: Anatoliy Sakhno Ukrainian State Film Agency Sound: Andriy Borisenko Looking For: distributor, sales agent, festival Production company:

WORK IN PROGRESS WORK Production Group filmmaker Oleg Shcherbyna, [email protected] Studied film at Kyiv Institute of Theatre

Filmography: Good Morning (1995), Creek (1996), The words ‘Ukraine’ and ‘Hollywood’ sound like they belong to two very Women’s Tears (2006), My Prince (2006), Teacher of Music (TV, 2008), Man for Life (TV, 2008), different, faraway galaxies. Even the act of putting them together sounds, Dandelion (TV, 2011), Hello, Mom! (TV, 2010) in a way, like a coincidence or even a joke. And perhaps this is not just in the words, but in the scale of associations, or stereotypes, attached to those two subjects or, more precisely, concepts. This documentary film Director is dedicated to people who were born in Ukraine and who grew up in the Stanislav Suknenko United States in Ukrainian families. It is tribute to those who changed not only the face of Hollywood, but influenced American art and culture. cinematographer, editor, director #art #culture The tribute to those who changed not only Manages Commission on Historical Heritage at the face of Hollywood, but influenced American the Filmmakers Union of Ukraine art and culture.

28 GREEK WIFE GREEK WIFE ERD: 11/1/2019 UA GR 52’/ 70’

Producers: Natalia Libet, Polina Moshenska Budget: 79000 EUR DOP: Giorgos Gerasimidis, Supported by: Vangelis Xanthopoulos Ukrainian State Film Agency, Current Time TV, Lviv Film Commission, 86PROKAT Director Sound: Dmytro Skrypka Production company: Looking For: financing, co-producer, distributor, Polina Moshenska sales agent, festival

WORK IN PROGRESS WORK DGTL RLGN [email protected], www.dgtlrlgn.com

filmmaker, visual artist, winner of the Main Prize at the “86” Festival of Like in an ancient Greek novel, the young couple ends up being happy Film and Urbanism for the short film “Tsvetayeva and Mayakovsky (Streets)” together, but only after getting through a lot of troubles. In this contemporary story, the difference is that, instead of shipwrecks, sail Studied Cultural Studies at Kyiv-Mohyla Academy into slavery, and other adventures derived from the Olympian gods, two Lives in Greece people in love have to face a complex mix of geopolitical, economic, From Ukraine and social issues. This is a personal story of Polina Moshenska, the direc- Filmography: The Bridge (UA, 2014), Phronesis tor of the film. She has moved from Kyiv, Ukraine to Thessaloniki, Greece (UA-GR, 2015), Tsvetayeva and Mayakovsky (Streets) (UA-GR, 2016) to reunite with her beloved. The film has a charm of non-powdered faces, This is a documentary story of love, a story about uneven walk, family scenes, inner struggle, searches for necessary words, the long-distance relationship that started dreams and unpolished reality. in September 2014, while war in Ukraine and #anthropology #creative #social issues the economic crisis in Greece were taking a dramatic turn

30 HUMAN WITH A STOOL ЛЮДИНА З ТАБУРЕТОМ ERD: 1/15/2019 UA 90’

Producer: Kateryna Mizina Budget: 772875 EUR Sound: KWA Sound Production Supported by: Ukrainian Cultural Foundation, crowd-funding Production company: company with hundreds of benefactors Director NGO TRIBU VERDE Kateryna Mizina, Looking For: distributor, sales agent, Yaroslav Popov +380977496065 broadcaster, festival WORK IN PROGRESS WORK [email protected]

filmmaker, producer, screenwriter “Human with a Stool” is a stormy ocean of life for those who caught the Studied at Kyiv Music School, wave. Leonid Kanter’s Student Game called With a Stool to the Ocean Studied Film Directing at Karpenko-Kary Kyiv transformed into expeditions to the World Ocean. Years of traveling, National University of Theater, Film, and TV 60 thousand kilometers and 30 countries. Indians from the Caribbean, Lives in Kyiv, Ukraine Tibet monks and Latin American bandits, street performances, Amazonian From Kyiv, Ukraine landscapes, Gobi Desert, and Patagonia... Travelers carried stools to the A brave trip with a stool to the Ocean of Leonid Filmography: The Flows (UA, 1997), oceans, which proved that any dream is feasible. The journey was replaced Kanter and his dreamer friends, which had turned With a Stool to Atlantic Ocean (UA, 2005), with the revolutionary Ukraine. Burning land was destroyed by the war, Tibet Illegal (UA, 2007) into a return to Ukraine on war-fire and the last and burned the main hero’s soul. Without completing his dream film, the shot of the director’s life. director ended his life by filming the last shot of his movie. #adventure #creative #drama doc

32 AN INCONVENIENT MEMORY НЕЗРУЧНА ПАМ’ЯТЬ ERD: 10/7/2019 UA 70’

Producers: Ihor Ivanko, Budget: 127000 EUR / Confirmed: 5700 EUR Mariia Ponomarova Looking For: financing, distributor, sales Production company: agent, tbroadcaster, festival #BABYLON’13 Director Ihor Ivanko Ihor Ivanko +380935358094

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cinematographer, film director, researcher, since Famous Soviet cinematographer Leonid Burlaka gets diagnosed with 2014 as a cinematographer collaborates with BABYLON’13 documentary filmmakers collective Alzheimer’s. At the same time, his grandson Ihor discovers a hidden part of grandpa’s photo archive. Tracing back the story behind the half- Studied Cinematography at Karpenko-Kary Kyiv National University of Theater, Film, and TV destroyed pictures from Burlaka’s youth, Ihor and grandpa get gradually closer to each other. However, grandpa will soon not Lives in Kyiv, Ukraine From Odesa, Ukraine remember Ihor at all. #archives #art #culture #creator’s point of view #history Filmography: Under Siege (DoP, UA, 2014), Ashes (DoP, UA, 2014), Scar (DoP, UA, 2015), Bohdan’s Happiness (DoP, UA, 2015), 14 Utyosova St (DoP, UA, 2017) Write a comment... A famous soviet cinematographer Leonid Burlaka gets diagnosed with Alzheimer’s. At the same time, his grandson Ihor discovers a hidden part of grandpa’s photo archive. 34 IT’S ME! ЦЕ Я! ERD: 5/30/2019 UA 90’

Producers: Natalia Libet, Olesya Sichkina Budget: 127000 EUR / Confirmed: 5700 EUR Scriptwriters: Serhiy Morgunov, Looking For: financing, co-producer Ivona Kostyna Director Production company: 23/32 Films, DGTL RLGN Serhiy Morgunov Natalia Libet, +380675022199, WORK IN PROGRESS WORK [email protected]

filmmaker, cinematographer, documentary photographer The film consists of a range of personal interviews, the narrative is built as a one man story. It is divided into two parts with working titles: veteran Volunteered to the Anti-Terrorist Operation Zone in 2014 part and military part. In the ‘veteran part’ we hear a story unfolding chronologically: from the decision to go to the frontlines and up until Nominated for Joop Swart Masterclass by World Press Photo in 2017 present, when one has already returned to civilian life. In the ‘military part’ everything is upside down: from returning home and deciding to go back From Ukraine fighting and until the very first moment they decided to go to war. It seems like a circle, as the story never really ends. #anthropology #art #drama #doc

A one-man story of war and returning to civilian life, told by the numerous voices of veterans and soldiers at the frontlines. 36 IVAN’S LAND ЗЕМЛЯ ІВАНА ERD: 2019 UA 75’

Producers: Gennady Kofman, Budget: 158000 EUR / Confirmed: 88000 EUR Olha Beskhmelnytsina Supported by: Ukrainian State Film Agency Co-Producer: Dirk Simon (Germany) Looking For: distributor, sales agent, broadcaster, festival Director DOP: Andrii Lysetskyi Andrii Lysetskyi Production company: MaGiKa Film, Gennady Kofman, WORK IN PROGRESS WORK +380505974927, +380577140103, [email protected] cinematographer, member of the National Filmmakers Union of Ukraine, member of the Guild of Cameramen of Ukraine Ivan lives a simple life in an Ukrainian village. His main occupation seems feeding his animals and working his fields… until we realize that he is Studied Film and Television Arts, Cinematography at Karpenko-Kary Kyiv one of the great artists of a dying art form. One day, an art collector shows National University of Theater, Film, and TV up on Ivan’s doorstep who has heard stories about an unique painter in Lives in Ukraine a remote village. When the art collector leaves, he carries one of Ivan’s sculptures… Soon after, more art enthusiasts and journalists track Ivan down until they all stand in the middle of Ivan’s house, surprised and amazed by his work. Eventually, he and his works are invited to be show- cased in Kyiv. The journey Ivan embarks on is bigger than a man traveling from a village into the big city. Arriving at the art gallery, he finds himself Ivan’s life is defined by nature, mysticism, irritated by the excitement of people he never met before and who don’t and art. When he is invited to showcase even realize that the man strolling through the halls is actually the man his paintings and sculptures to Kyiv, his world responsible for all their enthusiasm. gets turned upside down. 38 #current affairs #human interest THE MILITARY CHAPLAIN НАШ КАПЕЛАН ERD: 2019 UA 75’

Producer: Gennady Kofman Budget: 142312 EUR / Confirmed: 125567 EUR Scriptwriter: Serhii Lysenko Supported by: Ministry of Culture of Ukraine DOP: Serhii Lysenko Looking For: distributor, sales agent, broadcaster, festival Director Production company: MaGiKa Film Serhii Lysenko Gennady Kofman,

WORK IN PROGRESS WORK +380505974927, +380577140103, [email protected]

director, editor, script doctor This film is a road trip story of one visit to the frontline, where we’ll try Studied Legal Studies at Dnipropetrovsk National University to remember four years of such trips, full of new people and events. Every month Father Mykola Medynskyi loads his old off-roader with boxes, Studied Television Directing at Karpenko-Kary Kyiv National University of Theater, Film, and TV closes his church, says goodbye to his wife and two sons, and sets off to the war. Community in his native Sub Carpathian village is not very Lives in Kyiv, Ukraine From Dnipro, Ukraine happy when the priest leaves the congregation. But there are soldiers waiting for him in the East of Ukraine. The trip to the front goes on, from Filmography: She-Goat (UA, 2004), Awakening (UA, 2012), Amosov. The Century (UA, 2013), one site to another, from one troop to another. We keep collecting memo- Encyclopaedia of the Maidan (UA, 2015-2016), ries and footage. And we see how the lead character transforms from ATO Brotherhood (UA, 2017) a nameless rural priest into a public person. We see a miracle: Every month Father Mykola Medynskyi loads his one dedicated person changes the people and the world around him. #current affairs #human interest old off-roader with boxes, closes his church, says goodbye to his wife and two sons, and sets off to the war… 40 MUSTACHE FUNK ВУСАТИЙ ФАНК ERD: 3/01/2018 UA 70’

Producer: Andriy Granytsia Budget: 59 000 EUR Director DOP: Serhii Mischenko Looking For: festival Oleksandr Kovsh Sound: Mikhailo Kapousta Production company: T.T.M., Yurii Pritchenko,

WORK IN PROGRESS WORK filmmaker, documentary director +380685282797 [email protected] Studied Kyiv Institute of Music Studied Directing at Kyiv National Institute of Film and TV The beginning of the 1970s was the golden age of Ukrainian popular Lives in Kyiv, Ukraine music. Hundreds of songs of unbelievable beauty, trendy sound, futuristic costumes – how comes all of these existed in the Soviet Union? Eastern Manages UA:Pershyi TV as chief documentary director Ukrainian vocal polyphony plus Carpathian torn rhythms imposed Filmography: Choice of the Future, Twenty Years After, Perejaslav the Eternal Town on American funk – that was the basis of the most influential musical scene of Ukraine. And yet today this scene is greatly underestimated. #music #history Director Vitalii Bardetskyi Write a comment...

filmmaker, owner at Promo Ocean Agency In the USSR where both national music and Western trends suffered strict censorship Ukrainian Studied Journalism at Lviv State Univercity folk rock and funk still managed to survive. Lives in Kyiv, Ukraine From Buchach, Ukraine 42 PEACE FOR NINA МИР ДЛЯ НІНИ ERD: 3/25/2018 UA 72’

Producers: Andriy Granitsa, Budget: 55000 EUR / Confirmed: 48485 EUR Zhanna Maksymenko-Dovhych Supported by: Ukrainian State Film Agency DOP: Maksym Rudenko, Sergii Poznanskiy Looking For: financing, co-producer, distributor, Director sales agent, broadcaster, festival Zhanna Sound: Serhiy Avdeev, Artem Mostovyi WORK IN PROGRESS WORK Maksymenko-Dovhych Production company: T.T.M.

producer, director, writer “Peace for Nina” is a documentary portrait of a tiny woman who lost her Studied Journalism at Taras Shevchenko National University of Kyiv loved ones in wars: first, her husband, and tree years ago her elder son. Ihor Branovytsky was among the last Ukrainian servicemen defending Filmography: Boxers (UA, 2011), House with Chimeras (UA, 2013), Under the Bridge (2014) Donetsk airport and was shot dead in front of other captured Ukrainian Army servicemen by the separatist leader, Russian citizen Arseniy Pavlov ‘Motorola’. After losing her son, Nina found a new family: the parents, who, like her, were searching for their children, and the soldiers, who served in the same unit with Ihor Branovytsky. At the moment, the most important part of Nina’s life is her own investigation into the circumstances of her son’s death. This story is about Nina who lost her husband in #archives #creator’s point of view #gender #drama doc #human interest the war between the Soviet Union and Afghanistan #human rights #social issues #investigative and her elder son because of Russia’s invasion in the East of Ukraine. Will she ever find her peace? 44 PEARL OF ABSURD ПЕРЛИНА АБСУРДУ ERD: 11/25/2019 UA 72’

Producers: Elmira Asadova, Budget: 60500 EUR Oleksandra Chuprina Production company: DOP: Illia Yehorov Contemporary Ukrainian Cinema “CUC” Elmira Asadova, +380731614529 Sound: Karina Rezhevska Director [email protected] Oleksandra Chuprina Looking For: co-producer, Oleksandra Chuprina, +380634491003 WORK IN PROGRESS WORK sales agent, festival, developers for cross-media platform [email protected]

director, co-director, editor. Member of #BABYLON’13 documentary “Pearl of Absurd” is a documentary film and a cross-media platform about filmmakers group the city of Odesa, Ukraine. We set up a journey to the coast of the Black Studied at Karpenko-Kary Kyiv National Sea to see the European city inside post-Soviet reality. Odesa is a city University of Theater, Film, and TV Studied at USC Documentary Workshop in Los of myths, historical challenges, and my roots. Connection with which was Angeles, USA lost in 1917 during the October Revolution. Since then, family stories were

From Odesa, Ukraine covered with forced silence. Old buildings are the only connection to previous generations. But the architectural heritage is the battlefield Member of NGO “Contemporary Ukrainian now. There is a fight between activists trying to preserve unique archi- Cinema” (“CUC”) tecture and oligarchs rebuilding it to skyscrapers with shopping malls. Filmography: Bohdanchyk (UA, 2014), Changes are inevitable. How will they look? Is Odesa still beautiful? The Diary (UA, 2016) #archives #culture #author’s point of view #social issues

46 A PORTRAIT ON THE BACKGROUND OF MOUNTAINS ПОРТРЕТ НА ТЛІ ГІР ERD: 1/3/2019 UA 70’

Producer: Andriy Granytsia Budget: 39000 EUR DOP: Maksym Rudenko Supported by: Ukrainian State Film Agency Sound: Oleg Goloveshkin distributor, sales agent, Director Production company: Looking For: broadcaster, festival Maksym Rudenko T.Т.M., Maksym Rudenko

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filmmaker, cinematographer Resident of the village Kryvorivnya, Paraska Plytka-Horytsvit, who Studied Photography and Visual Arts at Academy of Classical Photography spent 10 years in Stalin’s camps, came back home. She decided to take the camera and take pictures of the world around her. For 40 years she Studied Documentary Film Directing at School of Cinema and Television photographed people and the place where she lived. In 1998 Paraska

Studied Cinematography at VGIK in Russia died, and the negatives of her photos were considered lost for a long time. A year ago, a box with these negatives was found. After the restoration From Mykolaiv, Ukraine and scanning of the films, images of the past era appeared from nonex- Filmography: I Did What I Wanted (UA, 20’, 2008), istence. Paraska’s pictures opened a layer of history of the Hutsul village; Pickuper (UA, 15’, 2008), Between the Wolf and the they are filled with a breath of life, and sometimes existential stories, Dog (UA, 20’, 2008) captured by the author’s philosophical view. It is a story about the connection This is a story about the connection between between the present and the past, reflected on the accidentally found photo negatives. the present and the past, reflected on accidentally #creator’s point of view #creative #experimental found photo negatives.

48 PROJECTIONIST ПАНОРАМА ERD: 2019 UA PL 72’

Producers: Gennady Kofman, Budget: 112000 EUR / Confirmed: 75500 EUR Olha Beskhmelnytsina Supported by: DOP: Yuriy Shylov Ukrainian State Film Agency, TVP (Poland) Looking For: distributor, sales agent, Director Co-Producers: Mirosław Dembiński, broadcaster, festivals Yuriy Shylov Dirk Simon WORK IN PROGRESS WORK Scriptwriter: Yuriy Shylov Production company: Fundacja Edukacji Dokumentalnej Production company: Mirosław Dembiński, [email protected] filmmaker MaGiKa Film, Gennady Kofman +380505974927 Studied Directing at Kyiv National Karpenko- [email protected] Kary University of Theater, Film, and TV

Studied Geography and Urban Studies Valentin is an eccentric projectionist. For 44 years, he’s been working in one of at Temple University, Philadelphia the oldest movie theaters in Kyiv’s city center. In his projection booth, he drinks Studied documentary film directing at Andrzej Wajda Film School with war veterans, dances with the girls from the next door casting agency or cuts his friend’s hair. Every day at work seems another venture. The turmoil on Lives in Kyiv, Ukraine Maidan square and the war remain behind the scenes, while the life on screen From Ivano-Frankivsk, Western Ukraine Valentin is a projectionist, for 44 years he worked creates an alternative reality. It all comes to an abrupt end with a fire in the Filmography: Weight (UA, 2015), in one of the oldest movie theaters in Kyiv. One Panorama (UA, 2016) cinema, and Valentin is forced to retire. He looks after his dying mother, rushing to help the moment she whistles. With an average life expectancy for men in day, on Valentin’s 60th birthday, a fire happens at the Ukraine of 64 years, Valentin is aware that he has not much time left. Still, the movie theater, and he’s forced to retire. The he fights desperately to find a new meaning in life in a rapidly changing country. man struggles to find a new meaning to his life in #social issues #creator’s point of view the rapidly changing country. 50 RABIES СКАЗ ERD: 2019 UA 70

Producers: Maxim Asadchiy, Budget: 80000 EUR / Confirmed: 45000 EUR Sashko Chubko Supported by: DOP: Jane Bondarenko, Pavlo Lypa, Ukrainian State Film Agency Sofiya Gerasimova, Serhiy Klepach Director Looking For: financing, co-producer, Scriptwriter: Anastasiya Maksymchuk sales agent, festival Anastasiya WORK IN PROGRESS WORK Maksymchuk Production company: Pronto Film Sashko Chubko, +380444902231 filmmaker [email protected]

Studied at Kyiv National Karpenko-Kary Theater, Balancing between extremes of this often-absurd Film, and TV University After his son’s death, a retired plumber Pyotr finds his mission in looking reality, Rabies is the story about healing wounds Studied at KINOEYES European Movie Master’s after homeless dogs that roam around Kyiv. Cocky macho Svyatogor program is a lawyer and media personality, who finds his mission in killing Pyotr’s and rising from the ashes. From Donetsk, Ukraine dogs. The two characters never meet in person, but there is an unseen war between them. The war for the definition of humanity. After Pyotr’s Filmography: Tenderness (UA, 2014), Refuge (2016) dog shelter perishes in flames, he needs surgery to keep his heart beating. Meanwhile, Svyatogor, despite several assassination attempts, registers his Doghunters Union NGO and continues his anti-dog bravado in social networks. Balancing between extremes of this often-absurd reality, Rabies is the story about healing wounds and rising from the ashes. #creative #current affairs #human rights

52 ROSES. FILM-CABARET РОЗИ. ФІЛЬМ-КАБАРЕ ERD: 2019 UA 70’

Producers: Oleksandra Kravchenko, Budget: 130000 EUR / Confirmed: 116000 EUR Oleg Sosnov Supported by: DOP: Serhiy Stetsenko Ukrainian Cultural Foundation Director Sound director: Iryna Stetsenko Looking For: financing, co-producer, distributor, world sales agent, broadcaster, festival Iryna Stetsenko Composer: Dakh Daughters Band WORK IN PROGRESS WORK Production company: Oleksandra Kravchenko +380679967771, sound producer, debuting filmmaker [email protected]

Studied Serhiy Bukovsky School of Documentary Filmmaking “Roses. Film-Cabaret” is a documentary cinéma vérité, following 7 actresses of Lives in Kyiv, Ukraine freak cabaret Dakh Daughters Band on their path to the rapidly growing fame against the background of the revolution and an undeclared war against Ukraine. Life is a cabaret for the characters of the film, so ROSES is a film-cabaret, where music hardly stops, pace never slows, and acting becomes something genuinely sincere. But this is not a documentary portrait of a Dakh Daughters Band – nor is this another Maidan story. The story is about a change – which might ignite easily in the revolutionary fire, but is so much harder to follow through despair and despondency. In a way, “Roses” is a coming of age story – both for the group Seven individual characters’ merge into a powerful of young female artists, as well as for their re-born country, Ukraine – now once feminine element, which has the ability to inspire again trying to learn how to walk by her own. change and to guide those around them towards #music #art #culture love, consciousness, and creativity. 54 SALT FROM BONNEVILLE ERD: 4/10/2019 UA 80’

Producers: Artem Koliubaiev, Taras Bosak, Budget: 202000 EUR / Confirmed: 117000 EUR Maksim Leshchanka, Anton Khilman Supported by: DOP: Denis Melnik, Sergii Stetsenko, Ukrainian State Film Agency Dmytro Gorash, Simon Mozgovyi Director Looking For: financing, co-producer, distributor, Sound: Andrii Nidzelskyi, Michal Pajdiak sales agent, broadcaster, festival, funds Simon Mozgovyi

WORK IN PROGRESS WORK Production company: Mainstream Pictures LLC Taras Bosak, +38067 5 087 087, film director, editor, actor [email protected]

Studied Cinema and Television Arts at Kharkiv State Academy of Culture The story of this adventure drama is about Nazar and Max, two guys from Studied Dramaturgy at Inter TV Channel School Ukraine and an old soviet bike, who set an ambitious goal to beat the

Lives in Kyiv, Ukraine world speed record at Bonneville Salt Flats in Utah, USA. This dry salt From Kharkiv, Ukraine desert is the main place on earth to bring together hundreds of people

Filmography: The Winter Garden’s Tale from all over the world, who spend millions of dollars to decide who will (UA, 2018) become a new speed racing champion. Nazar and Max spend all their time assembling the bike in a small garage on the outskirts of Kyiv and overpass hundreds of miles and difficulties to make their dreams come true. And then, on the other side of the globe each of them realises Two friends from Kyiv with an old modified soviet why he is here. bike try to set the world speedrecord at Bonneville #adventure&sports #creative #human interest Salt Flats in Utah, USA, while their friendship is challenged. 56 SERHIY FROM FEODOSIA An organizer of the Crimean Euromaidan and his СЕРГІЙ З ФЕОДОСІЇ ERD: 12/12/2018 UA 52’/ 60’ Crimean-Tatar wife are forced to leave the pen-

Producer: Anna Lebedeva Budget: 22124 EUR / Confirmed: 18221 EUR insula, because their hopes for a better future at Director DOP: Mykhailo Koryshov Supported by: home failed. Serhiy, Elmaz and their two kids start private donation Anna Lebedeva Sound: Karina Rezhevska a new life from scratch in Kyiv. financing, distributor, sales agent, Production company: Looking For: broadcaster, festival Foundation ACS, Anna Lebedeva

WORK IN PROGRESS WORK filmmaker +380680385319 [email protected] Studied Documentary Directing at Documentary School of Serhiy Bukovskiy Studied PR at Kyiv National University of Arts and Culture An organizer of the Crimean Euromaidan and his Crimean-Tatar wife are forced to leave the peninsula, because their hopes for a better future Filmography: Dreamers from Zinkiv (23’, UA, 2018), Kharbabai (60’, UA, 2018), Trostyanets (26’, UA, 2018) at home failed. Serhiy, Elmaz and their two kids start a new life from scratch in Kyiv. After a busy period of searching for a new place, Serhiy Director gets a job at the Ministry of Occupied Territories. We learn about their Mykhailo Koryshov dreams, troubles, joys and look at family chronicles, hear stories about their vital life changes. We feel that, as the main characters of the film, we can realize our daring dreams – to save an impossible love and bring filmmaker to life the most courageous ambitions. Studied Cinematography at INTERSCHOOL #drama doc #human rights #social issues Studied Photography at Viktor Maruschenko School of Social Photography, Studied PR at Kyiv National University of Arts and Culture

Filmography: Dreamers from Zinkiv (23’, UA, 2018), Kharbabai (60’, UA, 2018) 58 THREE SISTERS ТРИ СЕСТРИ ERD: 2019 UA 80’

Producer: Yulia Hontaruk Budget: 65000 EUR / Confirmed: 37000 EUR This is a story of my mom and her two sisters. It is DOP: Yulia Hontaruk Looking For: producer, co-producer, distributor, sales agent a film about friendship and disappointment, loneli- Sound director: Andrii Rogachov ness and old age, about how time changes people, Director Yulia Hontaruk transforming love into hatred, even towards your WORK IN PROGRESS WORK This is a story of my mom and her two sisters. It is a film about friendship own sister. and disappointment, loneliness and old age, about how time changes filmmaker. Member of The National people, transforming love into hatred, even towards your own sister. Life Filmmakers Union of Ukraine. Member of the Babylon’13 creative association has changed them, old friends became strangers. How did it happen that in their retirement age they became lonely, bitter, forgotten, and useless? Studied Film Directing at Karpenko-Kary National University of Theater, Film, Should they work together to address these feelings, support each other, and TV and jointly soothe their fears? They hurt each other, taking no notice Studied Thermal Energy and Process of the fact that there may not be enough time for apologies. Will the Engineering at Kyiv Polytechnic Institute sisters find a common understanding and will they be able to forgive National Technical University each other? They come to a village, to the house of their childhood, Filmography: Kaleidoscope (UA, 2011), Alcoholic (2013), Stronger Than Arms (2014), and that’s where the most interesting part begins... Ten Seconds (2016) #drama doc #social issues

60 TRAIN “KYIV-WAR” ПОЇЗД “КИЇВ-ВІЙНА” ERD: 1/10/2019 UA 55’

Producer: Sergiy Pudich Budget: 40000 EUR Scriptwriter: Korniy Gricyuk Looking For: financing, co-producer, distributor, sales agent, broadcaster, festival Production company: Director EasyLiving FIlms Korniy Gricyuk WORK IN PROGRESS WORK

Only 12.5 hours separate peaceful Kyiv and Konstantynivka, a small director, screenwriter, editor industrial city in the East of the country, immediately after which the Lives in Kyiv, Ukraine frontline begins. Here the war ceases to be something far from news

Filmography: Conditional (11’, UA, 2012), releases. Exactly 12.5 hours the high-speed train number 126K forced Forever (5’, UA, 2013), Hippodrome in both directions, but time passes very fast along the road ‘from peace (11’, UA, 2014), Cinephilia (4’, UA, 2014), Talent (3’, UA, 2014), Converter (10’, UA, 2015), to war,’ and incredibly slow in reverse. And it is understandable because Deserted country (70’, UA, 2018) the beginning of the war takes a few hours, and restoration of peace lasts for many years. That is why this train is named by Ukrainians as the “Kyiv-War” train. #art #human interest #social issues #investigative

It is very easy to come from Peace to War, but extremely hard to get back to Peace. 62 ZARVANYTSIA ЗАРВАНИЦЯ ERD: 7/20/2019 UA 90’

Producer: Valeria Sochyvets Budget: 20000 EUR DOP: Roman Himey, Yarema Malashchuk Supported by: Ukrainian State Film Agency Sound: Serhyi Avdeev Director Looking For: financing, sales agent, festival Roman Himey, Production company: LLC Contemporary Ukrainian Cinema Yarema Malashchuk

WORK IN PROGRESS WORK Valeria Sochyvets, +380932499150 [email protected]

filmmakers, cinematographers, visual artists A voyeuristic look at religious journey of pilgrims to Zarvanytsia. Studied Cinematography at Kyiv National An iconic place at the crossroads of catholic and orthodox worlds, western Karpenko-Kary Theatre, Film, and and eastern cultures. Will the miracle happen to those who spend seven TV University days of adventure full of belief, comic situations and tiredness? To those, From Kolomyya in Ivano-Frankivsk who escaped from difficulties of Ukrainian everyday life. Region, Ukraine #anthropology #culture #travel #religion Filmography: State Institution (8’, UA, 2017), To Whom Have You Abandoned Us? (UA, 2018)

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Civil Activism Films Both representatives of the non-governmental sector and film directors want to achieve change in society, each in their own way. CIVIL Public Group

By joining their experience, knowledge, and efforts, they are able IN PROGRESS WORK ACTIVISM About to create films on urgent social topics, interesting for a wide audience. FILMS CIVIL PITCH: Civil Activism Films is a new platform for documentary Discussion filmmakers and civil rights activists launched by Docudays UA Members in 2018. Its aim is to facilitate the production of documentary Events films on the topics which are important and urgent, but not widely Photos discussed in our societies. 6 civil rights activists and 6 film directors were selected out of 100 applications to work together. 4 film ideas got financing in March 2018. 4 short documentaries will be presented at Docudays UA in Kyiv in March 2019. Following this presentation, they will be ready to travel the world.

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66 67 BEHIND THE KITCHEN DOOR ЗА КУХОННИМИ ДВЕРИМА ERD: 3/1/2019 UA 25’

Scriptwriter: Julia Kochetova-Nabozhniak Budget: 5500 USD Supported by: USAID/ENGAGE program implemented by Pact DOP: Stella Shabliovska in collaboration with Legalife-Ukraine Director Production company: Looking For: producer, festival Julia Kochetova- Julia Kochetova-Nabozhniak WORK IN PROGRESS WORK Nabozhniak [email protected]

filmmaker, freelance photojournalist There are six of us in this kitchen – I’m standing behind the camera. Studied Journalism at Kyiv-Mohyla Academy Galya, Natasha, Ira, Lusya, and Sveta are participants of the program Lives in Kyiv, Ukraine for psychological support for sex workers. How we solve crises, split Filmography: See You Later (UA, 2016), up from husbands, give up alcohol and drugs, overcome domestic violence In Between (UA, 2017) and go out of the marginal ghetto – all these things are more than just a kitchen talk. This film is developed within“Civil Pitch: civil activism films” project. #drama doc #human rights #social issues

There are four of us in this kitchen – I’m standing behind the camera. Galya, Lusia, and Sveta are participants of the program for psychological support for sex workers. Our experience is more than just a kitchen talk.

68 NO STATUS. UKRAINE БЕЗ СТАТУСУ. УКРАЇНА ERD: 3/25/2019 UA ’

Producer: Ella Shtyka Budget: 5500 USD Getting a refugee status in nowadays Ukraine DOP: Dmytro Tiazhlov Supported by: is one of the most difficult and unpredictable USAID/ENGAGE program implemented by Pact Sound: Vladyslav Sirenko challenges. Director Production company: Looking For: distributor, sales agent, Dmytro Tiazhlov New Kyiv broadcaster, festival

WORK IN PROGRESS WORK [email protected] +380963340097

filmmaker, cinematographer. Documentary program coordinator Up to a hundred people per year receive refugee status in Ukraine. at the American Independence Film Festival Head of studies at Indie Lab. Documentary The film focuses on several stories of asylum seekers, each reveals a stage workshop for young filmmakers that a person is in. Aleksei is a Russian civil activist whose application for Lives in Kyiv, Ukraine a status got rejected. Despite all the burdens of living with no documents,

Manages DoP class at Kyiv State Institute of Alexei has participated in many actions against Russia’s aggression Theatrical Art and TV against Ukraine. The story of Nurkhan, a journalist, began when she

Filmography: Important Man (11’, UA, 2007), covered the so-called Osh massacre in Kyrgyzstan. Now she and her three The Difficult One (20’, UA, 2007), daughters are going to apply for refugee status in Ukraine. No Border I Am a Monument to Myself (58’, UA, 2009), Cornered (25’, UA, 2013), Post Maidan activists support them in their daily struggle for legal status. (42’, UA, 2014), Live Power (83’, UA, 2015), This film is developed within“Civil Pitch: civil activism films” project. Highnoon Winti (12’, 2015) #human interest #human rights #social issues

70 SHUT THE FUCK UP ТИ, БЛЯ, РОТА ЗАКРИЙ ERD: 3/15/2019 UA 25’

Scriptwriter: Yelyzaveta Sokurenko Budget: 5500 USD Production company: Supported by: Taisiia Kutuzova USAID/ENGAGE program implemented by Pact [email protected] Director Looking For: sales agent, broadcaster, festival Taisiia Kutuzova WORK IN PROGRESS WORK

A 17-year-old journalist Serhii is studying the administrative code filmmaker, journalist of Ukraine. The document and the journalistic text are his weapon in the Studied Journalism at Ukrainian Catholic University fight against corruption in his native village. At one of the meetings of the local council, after Serhii convicted the council member in Lives in Kyiv, Ukraine From Simferopol, Ukraine corruption, the deputy grabs Serhii by the neck and publicly chastises him. The central media of Ukraine write about it. For them Serhii is a hero, for Filmography: Alive and Undefeated (UA, 2016), Youth 1927 (UA, 2017) part of the village he is a shame. The schoolboy is threatened, advised not to climb into the affairs of adults and throw a light-noise grenade into the yard of his house. The police are inactive. An advocate advises the guy to leave activism. But what will the student do? 17-year-old activist Serhii Chaharov fights against This film is developed within“Civil Pitch: civil activism films” project. #drama doc #current affairs #human rights #social issues corruption in his small village near Kyiv. Local council members and other citizens of the village try to shut him up. One day a light-emitting gre- nade flashes in Serhii’s yard. 72 UFO RESCUE MISSION ПОРЯТУНОК “ЛІТАЮЧОЇ ТАРІЛКИ” ERD: 3/23/2019 UA 25’ The right to the city is the right to the UFO! Producer: Lyuba Knorozok Supported by: USAID/ENGAGE program implemented by Pact, Co-Producer: Daria Bassel VCRC (Ukraine), Museum of Modern Art (Warsaw) DOP: Max Savchenko Looking For: financing, distributor, sales agent, Director Sound: Andriy Borysenko broadcaster, festival Oleksiy Radynski Production company: WORK IN PROGRESS WORK Lyuba Knorozok+380509687154. [email protected]

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Lives in Kyiv, Ukraine Florian Yuriev is an architect, painter, composer, musician, and luthier. In order to preserve the work of his lifetime from destruction, Florian Works at Visual Culture Research Center (now aged 89) is forced to master one more occupation: that of an urban Filmography: The Film of Kyiv. Episode activist. Between late 1950s and early 1980s, Florian has been designing One (UA, 2017), Landslide (UA, 2016), People Who Came To Power (UA, 2015, co-directed and constructing an architectural project known as the Kyiv UFO. Today, by Tomas Rafa), Integration (UA, 2014), Incident in the Museum (UA, 2013) as a result of a corrupt deal between the Ukrainian government and a private investor, the UFO building is about to be incorporated into a shopping mall that’s being constructed nearby. Florian Yuriev, together with a group of urban activists, is determined to not let this happen. This film is developed within“Civil Pitch: civil activism films” project. #art #music #culture #current affairs #experimental #human rights #social issues

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CONTACTS KyivMusicFilm “86” International Festival of Film and Urbanism CONTACTS KyivMusicFilm works with two kinds of releases: special events for alternative content Alika Kharchenko “86” is a vibrant interdisciplinary event held in Slavutych, Ukraine – a unique town near 36 Olehivska St, office 410 (opera, ballet, concerts and art-titles on screen) as well as with classical theatrical distribu- +380931291309 Chornobyl. The festival’s major focus is creative documentary films, particularly on the top- Kyiv, 04071, Ukraine [email protected] ics of utopia, urbanism, environment, and energetics. In 2016, the festival launched its first Nadia Parfan tions of films about music and new culture. www.kyivmusicfilm.kisff.org national documentary competition Palm of the North. Since 2015 “86” has been organizing +380 50 709 26 20 a series of MyStreetFilmsUkraine film workshops and film competitions. The next edition [email protected] www.86.org.ua of “86” will take place in May 2017.

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18°C 8 MUSTACHE FUNK 42 Bardetskyi, Vitalii 42 Moshenska, Polina 30 ALGORITHM 10 MY FATHER IS MY MOTHER’S BROTHER 96 Chorny, Oleg 88 Mozgovyi, Simon 56, 102 BEHIND THE KITCHEN DOOR 68 NO OBVIOUS SIGNS 114 Chuprina, Oleksandra 46 Osovska, Ulyana 26 BETWEEN TWO WARS 12 NO STATUS. UKRAINE 70 Gorlova, Alina 12, 114 Ozirna, Zhanna 78 BOND 78 PEACE FOR NINA 44 Gricyuk, Korniy 62 Parfan, Nadia 8 CACOPHONY OF DONBAS, THE 80 PEARL OF ABSURD 46 Gruzinov, Yurii 86 Pavlovskaya, Alisa 90 COMPANY OF STEEL 14 PORTRAIT ON THE BACKGROUND OF MOUNTAINS, A 48 Himey, Roman 64 Pilunskiy, Yaroslav 86 DELIBERATE LIES 16 PROJECTIONIST 50 Hontaruk, Yulia 14, 60 Popov, Yaroslav 32 DELTA 108 RABIES 52 Ilkov, Vadym 20, 96 Radynski, Oleksiy 16, 74, 84 DEMON 18 RESERVE ASKANIA 98 Ivanko, Ihor 34 Rudenko, Maksym 48 DEPTH 20 ROSES. FILM-CABARET 54 Kelm, Polina 24 Shashkova, Yulia 86 DIORAMA 82 SALT FROM BONNEVILLE 56 Khodakivska, Tania 110 Shovkoplyas, Dmitry 10 EARTH IS BLUE AS AN ORANGE, THE 22 SERHIY FROM FEODOSIA 58 Kochetova-Nabozhniak, Julia 68 Shylov, Yuriy 50 ELF’S TOWER, THE 24 SHEPHERDS 100 Kondakova, Masha 104 Stekolenko, Oleksandr 110 ENTICING, SUGARY, BOUNDLESS OR SONGS AND SHUT THE FUCK UP 72 Koryshov, Mykhailo 58 Stetsenko, Iryna 54 DANCES ABOUT DEATH 110 THREE SISTERS 60 Kovalenko, Alisa 92 Strashnyi, Denis 26 FAIRY TALE ABOUT THE HOBBYHORSE, THE 26 TRAIN “KYIV-WAR” 62 Kovsh, Oleksandr 42 Strembitskyy, Igor 100 FILM OF KYIV. EPISODE ONE, THE 84 UFO RESCUE MISSION 74 Kutuzova, Taisiia 72 Suknenko, Stanislav 28 FIRST COMPANY, THE 86 WHEREUFROM 116 Kuvivchak-Sakhno, Galyna 28 Techynskyi, Oleksandr 108 FROM BABI YAR TO FREEDOM 88 WINTER GARDEN’S TALE, THE 102 Laktionova, Zoya 82 Tiazhlov, Dmytro 70 FROM UKRAINE TO HOLLYWOOD 28 WOMEN IN WAR 104 Lavrinenko, Dmytro 116 Troyanovsky, Yegor 18 GOGOL DOC 90 ZARVANYTSIA 64 Lebedeva, Anna 58 Tsilyk, Iryna 22 GREEK WIFE 30 Lutskiy, Volodymyr 94 Zagdansky, Andrei 112 HOME GAMES 92 Lysenko, Serhii 40 HUMAN WITH A STOOL 32 Lysetskyi, Andrii 38 INCONVENIENT MEMORY, AN 34 Lytvynenko, Andrii 98 IT’S ME! 36 Maksymchuk, Anastasiya 52 IVAN’S LAND 38 Maksymenko-Dovhych, Zhanna 44 MALEVICH 94 Malashchuk, Yarema 64 MIKHAIL AND DANIEL 112 Minaev, Igor 80 MILITARY CHAPLAIN, THE 40 Find a film Morgunov, Serhiy 36 Find a director 126 127 Make Notes Photo/Video Album Live Video Make Notes Photo/Video Album Live Video

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