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Focus Ukraine: Film program II

Saturday, 5.11. 10.15 pm, Kino in der Kulturbrauerei

Hosted by Ingrid Beerbaum

Two film programs are part of the national focus, Ukraine. With selected poetry films from this year's submissions, as well as special recommendations from the Ukrainian Film Festival Berlin, ZEBRA will present various facets of the Ukrainian film and poetry scene. Landscape, love, culture, tradition, and conflict are just a few of the themes. Films in this program are based on poems by Yurii Andrukhovych, Hrytsko Chubai, Nadiia Kyrian, Iya Kiva, Halyna Kruk, Grigory Semenchuk, Ivan Semenenko und Serhiy Zhadan.

Content note: The films in this programme may contain explicit depictions of physical and/or psychological violence as well as various kinds of assault. Please be aware that these depictions may trigger survivors and may thus prove harmful to their mental health.

This program will be accompanied by readings, film talks, a colloquium, a retrospective, and a masterclass during the festival.

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FILMS

СВІТЕЛКО / TINY GLOW-BEAM

  СВІТЕЛКО / TINY GLOW-BEAM

UKR 2020 | 3 min
R·D: Oskar Schuster, Angie Siveria
G·P: Два вірші для Н. К.
D·P: Ostap Slyvynsky

Coming up to the surface from the depths of sleep or the deep sea, as if looking into a praxinoscope, the magic reel for viewing moving pictures before there was film. A poem on the interaction of memory and perception. 

EINE STRASSE, EIN GEDICHT | LINA KOSTENKO / ONE STREET, ONE POEM | LINA KOSTENKO

  EINE STRASSE, EIN GEDICHT | LINA KOSTENKO / ONE STREET, ONE POEM | LINA KOSTENKO

UKR 2022 | 1 min
R·D: Natalia Liersam, Simon Liersam
G·P: Und wieder ein Prolog
D·P: Lina Kostenko

A young woman sits on a chair, in the middle of Lviv, reading a poem by Lina Kostenko: “We are so defenseless against one another.” Around her, the images of the city: traffic and churches, peeling plaster, winter trees. The beauty of streetcars in the twilight.

ПРОРОК КВАРТАЛІВ / NEIGHBOURHOOD PROPHET

  ПРОРОК КВАРТАЛІВ / NEIGHBOURHOOD PROPHET

UKR 2012 | 9 min
R·D: Oleksiy Khoroshko
G·P: Neighborhood Prophet
D·P: Halyna Kruk

A dog eats something from the sidewalk. Shots of a face, stroke by stroke, shut into a bust. “Nothing stays the way you like for long.” Parable about a city neighborhood where the sun no longer shines. About the fear of cats and slowly healing wounds.

THE SIMPLEST WORDS EXPLAIN IT ALL

  THE SIMPLEST WORDS EXPLAIN IT ALL

UKR 2016 | 10 min
R·D: Olya Mykhailiuk
G·P: The Simplest Words explain it all
D·P: Serhiy Zhadan

Calligraphy: the beating of a pulse. Lines like musical notation, overwritten by someone else's pen from behind. Against the soundtrack, a poem by Serhiy Zhadan, about trust in times of war. The noise gets louder and louder. Morse code, droning. Crosses and drops. The sheet, blacker and blacker.

DREAMS

  DREAMS

UKR 2017 | 2 min
R·D: Tania Bohuslavska
G·P: DREAMS I
D·P: John Hnativ

A woman in a white dress between flower arrangements and mirrors, her hair a waterfall in sleep. Stylish black and white film with stark contrasts, precisely arranged to a poem by John Hnativ. Metaphors of silence, eroticism and melancholy. Dream lines. A gothic piece.

РИБАЛКА / THE FISHERMAN

  РИБАЛКА / THE FISHERMAN

UKR 2021 | 7 min
R·D: Yana Zelenska
G·P:  РИБАЛКА
D·P: Petro Hulak-Artemovsky

How a woman from the water asks a young fisherman to stop chasing her family and live with her in the deep. Which he attempts – and disappears. Mermaid meets sirens and narcissus. Drawings for a ballad recitation, with live music.

ВІДШУКУВАННЯ ПРИЧЕТНОГО / FINDING THE ACCOMPLICE

  ВІДШУКУВАННЯ ПРИЧЕТНОГО / FINDING THE ACCOMPLICE

UKR 2021 | 2 min
R·D: Dmytro Dostatnev
G·P: ВІДШУКУВАННЯ ПРИЧЕТНОГО
D·P: Hrytsko Chubai

Morphing animation to a poem by Hrytsko Chubai. From a landscape into a human, out through the eyes. Flying at a dandelion, between clouds that become stars, to the sun. Like children's games. To see things behind the appearance of things.

ВТОМА / FATIGUE

  ВТОМА / FATIGUE

UKR 2021 | 2 min
R·D: Myro Klochko
G·P: BTOMA
D·P: Nadiia Kyrian   

To stand in the forest at dusk, in a dark hoodie, heavy boots. To hug a tree for a long time. Lines whisper toward the treetops: “Everything is tired / of orchestral marches / and longs for silence.” But is something creeping up on us? Short film about not wanting to fight anymore.