Festival Hub Screening
22 November 2024
Directed by Olena Kryvenko
Ukraine/ 2024 / 66 min / Ukrainian with English subtitles / Documentary, Television
Feature Television Competition
A documentary anthology that includes 3 separate stories about military chaplains of the Protestant faith. They work with the military in different ways - they travel to the front line, pray with them in the trenches, visit them in hospitals, record motivational videos in TikToks and deliver humanitarian aid.
Military chaplains. Pray in hell
22/11/2024 12:00
Location: Festival Hub
(23-24, Princes Gate, London, SW7 1 QQ)
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Directed by Fruzsina Skrabski, Sándor Kiss
Hungary/ 2022 / 50 min / Original with English subtitles / Documentary, Television
Feature Television Competition
The Inherited Shame is the sequel to the 2013 film Silenced Shame. The first film is about the Hungarian victims of rape during the Soviet occupation of Hungary, and the sequel is about how the trauma suffered by their ancestors lives on in the descendants of the victims. The head of the Gulág Foundation, inherited this organization from her mother, and she works tirelessly to make the past accessible to the future generation.
Inherited Shame
22/11/2024 13:20
Location: Festival Hub
(23-24, Princes Gate, London, SW7 1 QQ)
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Directed by Davoud Abdolmaleki
Iran / 2024 / 95 min / Persian with English subtitles / Documentary
Feature Television Competition
UK Premiere
Are we responsible for our destiny? Do we have the ability to change the circumstances of our lives? The students of a Girls High school have lived the answers to these questions.
FROM THE CRADLE TO THE GRAVE
22/11/2024 14:20
Location: Festival Hub
(23-24, Princes Gate, London, SW7 1 QQ)
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Short Television Competition
Almanac 3
22/11/2024 16:00
Vita - Directed by Vita Stoikova
Ukraine/ 2023 / 12 min / Ukrainian with English subtitles / Documentary
European Premiere
"VITA" is a short documentary film about Vita's neonatology department, which deals with premature, "pathological", abandoned and healthy children every day. At any moment she can go into labor, even if the air alarm sounds and the Shaheds fly, at any moment she must be ready to save the life that has just come into the world. She wants to have her own family, but she devotes herself to work.
We Are Home - Directed by Anton Chystiakov, Roman Krasnoschok
UKraine/ 2024 / 15 min / Ukrainian with English subtitles/ Documentary
UK Premiere
As war ravages their homeland, Ukrainian children flee their homes out of fear. Across the country, young lives are uprooted and transformed overnight. But even amidst devastating loss, the children's resilience and optimism shine through.
Eva Haller: A Work in Progress - Directed by Jeanne Meyers
USA/ 2024 / 12 min / English / Documentary
This short film highlights the philosophy and impact of Eva Haller, a 94 holocaust survivor and activist.
Long story -short: we need home For Ukraine - Directed by Ksenia Bugrimova
Ukraine/ 2023 / 30 min /Ukrainian and russian with English subtitles / Documentary
London Premiere
March 2022.Russia attacked Ukraine. Julia's family is in hell in the Ukrainian city of Mariupol. Miraculously, they escape the war and go to Great Britain to seek peace under the "Home For Ukraine" program. Former Tennis Player British number 1, and commentator of Wimbledon, Andrew Castle and his wife Sophie open the door of their home to them. But only for 6 months. Will she be able to build a new life in a foreign country in such a short time?
Location: Festival Hub
(23-24, Princes Gate, London, SW7 1 QQ)
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Directed by Domnikiia Levchyk
Ukraine / 2023 / 70 min / Ukrainian and russian with English subtitles / Documentary
Feature Television Competition
World Premiere
Memoria seeks to explore and understand the complex historical events of two pivotal years: 1941 and 2022. The narrative is woven from personal testimonies about war and human devastation, yet these difficult subjects are approached through universal experiences and emotions: childhood, family, loss. All the characters have lived or are living through these events as children, sharing profound commonalities.
Memoria
22/11/2024 17:30
Location: Festival Hub
(23-24, Princes Gate, London, SW7 1 QQ)
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Directed by Mariia Springis
United Kingdom/ 2023 / 73 min /English, Ukrainian / Documentary
Feature Television Competition
The aim of the documentary is to provide an informative account of the ways in which the war has impacted the Children of Ukraine, as well as the long-lasting effect this will have on the future of Ukraine — socially, politically and economically.
Why us
22/11/2024 18:50
Location: Festival Hub
(23-24, Princes Gate, London, SW7 1 QQ)
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23 November 2024
Faces of Torture
23/11/2024 12:00
Location: Festival Hub
(23-24, Princes Gate, London, SW7 1 QQ)
Directed by Vitalii Havura
Author/Reporter - Yevheniia Motorevska
Ukraine / 2023 / 60 min / Ukrainian, English / Documentary, Investigation
Feature Television Competition
UK Premiere
Since the beginning of the full-scale invasion, Russia has used the Olenivka prison, located in Russian-occupied Donetsk Oblast, as a camp for prisoners of war and civilian hostages from Mariupol. Thousands of Ukrainians, including servicemen from the Azov Brigade, have been held captive in its cells. Those who returned from captivity spoke about the inhumane conditions of detention, hunger, and torture in this prison.
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The Rising Sun
23/11/2024 13:10
Location: Festival Hub
(23-24, Princes Gate, London, SW7 1 QQ)
Directed by Alyona Kaporina
United Kingdom/ 2024 / 70 min /Ukrainian with English subtitles / Documentary
Feature Television Competition
London Premiere
We had a wonderful life, a perfect life in general. We had dreams, goals, prospects, and we were working towards them. I had a full-fledged family, we had great relationships with everyone, friends. Everything was perfect. And now..." No family, no home, no language... A happy life that was destroyed by Russia is behind. Darkness, uncertainty and fear are ahead. This is the heartbreaking story of a young woman who, with her young son and a great tragedy of her own, found herself in the UK because of the war in Ukraine.
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He came back
23/11/2024 14:30
Location: Festival Hub
(23-24, Princes Gate, London, SW7 1 QQ)
Directed by Max Yakobchuk, Vitalii Havura
Author/Reporter - Olesia Bida
Ukraine/ 2024 / 60 min /English, Ukrainian / Documentary, Investigation
Feature Television Competition
UK Premiere
Since the beginning of Russia’s full-scale invasion, Ukrainian law enforcement agencies have recorded 292 cases of sexual violence by the Russian military. This figure likely represents just the tip of the iceberg.
“He Came Back” is an investigative documentary about sexual crimes that were committed during the Russian occupation of Kyiv and Kherson oblasts in early 2022.
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Short Experimental Competition
Almanac 4
23/11/2024 17:20
Fiat Nox! - Directed by Artem Sharapko
Ukraine/ 2024 / 17 min / Ukrainian with English subtitles / Animation, Experimental, Drama
European Premiere
Nadia is a 19-year-old resident of Kyiv. Her father was a soldier who died a year ago during Russia's full-scale invasion of Ukraine. This morning, Nadia wakes up to the sound of an air raid siren. She thinks about her peaceful past and remembers a fairy tale her father used to tell her when she was a child. The story always helped calm her down when she was afraid of the dark. However, Nadia finds herself trapped in a powerless elevator and forced to confront her destiny during the most difficult time of her life.
Salt Water - Directed by Hilaria Landaverde
USA/ 2024 / 4 min / English / Experimental, Drama
European Premiere
Have you ever drank your own tears for survival?
DOVKOLA - Directed by Flora Borovyk
Ukraine/ 2023 / 6 min / No Dialogue / Experimental, Music Video
European Premiere
"DOVKOLA" is the autobiographical dance film inspired by the healing nature of the Ukrainian Carpathians. This is a sophisticated combination of the expressive possibilities of cinema, dance and music.
RYTA RAY - FREQUENCY OF LOVE - Directed by Nikita Kvasnikov
Ukraine/ 2023 / 3 min / English / Experimental, Music Video
UK Premiere
The plot centres around Ukrainian rescuers saving people’s lives barehanded these days. They carry the singer out of the burning building as she continues to share her truth bravely, to be resilient and follows her heart despite the world is crushing around her.
Into The Void - Directed by Giovannie Espiritu
USA/ 2024 / 2 min /English/ Experimental, Drama
European Premiere
A spoken word poem about sexual assault.
Location: Festival Hub
(23-24, Princes Gate, London, SW7 1 QQ)
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Directed by Richard Parry
United Kingdom / 2023 / 73 min / English / Documentary
Feature Television Competition
This compelling documentary follows a woman's five year struggle to bring to justice one of Britain's most prolific serial rapist.
I Believe Me (aka Catching My Rapist)
23/11/2024 18:00
Location: Festival Hub
(23-24, Princes Gate, London, SW7 1 QQ)
Free to attend! Please book a ticket to reserve your seat.