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Boney Piles

Terykony
Taras Tomenko
Spotlight on: Docudays UA 2022 2022
Documentary Film
Ukraine
2022
80 minutes
Ukrainian,
Russian
Subtitles: 
English

Toretsk in eastern Ukraine is marked by the decline of the coal industry: wasteland, rubble, scrap metal. In 2014, Russian separatists brought war into the region, destroying homes and families, including Nastya’s. The girl and her friends, all on the brink of adulthood, accept the decaying outskirts, gone to seed in the face of threat and depression, as normal. Taras Tomenko observes their small danced or sung escapes, their moments of obliviousness, sometimes their tears.

Sylvia Görke

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Director
Taras Tomenko
Cinematographer
Misha Lubarskyi
Editor
Viktor Malyarenko
Producer
Volodymyr Filippov, Andriy Suyarko, Alla Ovsyannikova
Sound
Olha Havrylenko, Volodymyr Tretiakov
Score
Alla Zagaykevych
Nominated for: MDR Film Prize
Spotlight on: Docudays UA 2022 2022
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Infinity According to Florian
Oleksiy Radynski
The hot button issue of pre-war Kyiv: the power of developers. Florian Yuryev’s architectural visions contrasts with the stubbornness of a businessman inspired by Donald Trump.
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Infinity According to Florian

Neskinchennist’ za Florianom
Oleksiy Radynski
Spotlight on: Docudays UA 2022 2022
Documentary Film
Ukraine
2022
70 minutes
Ukrainian,
Russian
Subtitles: 
English

The hot button issue of pre-war Kyiv: the power of developers. Oleksiy Radynski explores the opposition of an architect who designed one of the most significant buildings in Kyiv and the capitalistic cynicism that ruins the city’s uniqueness. Florian Yuryev’s philosophy of a galaxy’s mortality, of a “beautiful zero” we all are going to return to, contrasts with the ridiculous and dangerous stubbornness of a businessman inspired by Donald Trump.

Daria Badior

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Director
Oleksiy Radynski
Cinematographer
Max Savchenko
Editor
Mykola Bazarkin
Producer
Lyuba Knorozok
Sound
Andriy Borysenko, Oleksandr Konoval
Score
Andriy Borysenko
World Sales
Clementine Engler
Nominated for: MDR Film Prize
Spotlight on: Docudays UA 2022 2022
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Mountains and Heaven in Between
Dmytro Hreshko
Four paramedics in a mountain village at the beginning of the Covid pandemic go from house to house. They form the emotional core of this kaleidoscopic look at stories and tragedies.
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Mountains and Heaven in Between

Mizh nebom ta goramy
Dmytro Hreshko
Spotlight on: Docudays UA 2022 2022
Documentary Film
Ukraine
2021
70 minutes
Ukrainian
Subtitles: 
English

Four paramedics in a distant mountain village at the beginning of the Covid pandemic go from one house to another, from measurements to diagnoses, from tired older women to drunk middle-aged men. Hreshko watches them closely: They get baptised, married and buried. Yet the ambulance team stays the same, does its job, and ultimately provides the emotional core of this kaleidoscopic view of people’s stories and tragedies.

Daria Badior

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Director
Dmytro Hreshko
Cinematographer
Dmytro Hreshko
Editor
Viktor Malyarenko, Dmytro Hreshko
Producer
Polina Herman
Sound
Volodymyr Tret’yakov, Volodymyr Shchobak
Nominated for: MDR Film Prize
Spotlight on: Docudays UA 2022 2022
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Plai. A Mountain Path
Eva Dzhyshyashvili
A family in the mountains, following their daily rituals, unmolested by the outside world. But even this supposedly quiet life is determined by the war in eastern Ukraine.
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Plai. A Mountain Path

Plai
Eva Dzhyshyashvili
Spotlight on: Docudays UA 2022 2022
Documentary Film
Ukraine
2021
75 minutes
Ukrainian
Subtitles: 
English

Eva Dzhyshyashvili shows us a family that lives in the mountains following their daily rituals. At first glance, it’s a simple, quiet life unbothered by the outer world. However, as the picture is revealed, we see that the grandfather was wounded in the east of Ukraine and listen to countless conversations about this war. The feeling that there is nowhere to hide from military aggression is starkly evident. But the ending provides a sliver of hope.

Daria Badior

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Director
Eva Dzhyshyashvili
Cinematographer
Eva Dzhyshyashvili
Editor
Eva Dzhyshyashvili
Producer
Oksana Ivanyuk
Sound
Andrii Rohachov
Score
Erik Shved
Nominated for: MDR Film Prize
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Pryvoz

Pryvoz
Eva Neymann
Spotlight on: Docudays UA 2022 2022
Documentary Film
Ukraine
2021
72 minutes
Ukrainian
Subtitles: 
English

A sentimental journey through the main market in Odesa. Pryvoz is a place of recurring myth. It is mentioned in songs and books and is truly the heart of this disorienting city with a complicated history. Neymann looks at the inhabitants with empathy: lost souls in the bodies of humans, dogs or cats. The opera soundtrack adds a sense of fatality to the old vivid market that will become reality. The city of Odesa has been under Russian fire since February 2022.

Daria Badior

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Director
Eva Neymann
Cinematographer
Eva Neymann, Saša Oreškovic
Editor
Pavel Zalesov
Producer
Gennady Kofman, Olga Beskhmelnytsina
Sound
Valentyn Pynchuk, Ivo Heger
Nominated for: MDR Film Prize