Under the motto Realms of Phantasies, the Ukrainian Film Festival will take place from October 7 to 17, 2021 in Berlin and Stuttgart as a hybrid on- and offline event.The aim of the film festival is to present the young Ukrainian auteur cinema to the German audience. The focus is on films with a strong authorial position and a high artistic value. We want to give a voice to contemporary Ukrainian filmmakers and change the perception of Ukrainian culture by showing its dynamics, diversity and originality. The festival promotes equal access to cultural resources and equal opportunities for personal development for people with visual or hearing impairments. The films of the festival program are also available with audio descriptions.

Tickets: https://www.uffberlin.de/tickets

Screening start 07.10.2021 19:30 (BERLIN TIME)

curator
Valentyna Zalevska
Wiz-Art
  • Still frame from the movie FOUR TALKS

    FOUR TALKS

    Nazar Onufriv Ukraine

    7 min
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    fiction
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    2020
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    Language of dialogues

    Urbanized and disintegrated, people make phone calls to re-establish the connection.

  • Still frame from the movie CIRCULATION

    CIRCULATION

    Oleksiy Radynski Ukraine

    10 min
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    documentary
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    2020
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    Language of dialogues

    A three-year-long observation of Kyiv’s moving landscape, condensed into 10 minutes of screen time.

  • Still frame from the movie COME OUTSIDE, MASHA

    COME OUTSIDE, MASHA

    Julia Shalimova Ukraine

    4 min
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    animation
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    2021
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    Language of dialogues

    Observation of one day. On this day, different people's feelings are intertwined, such as anxiety and aggression; sadness, loneliness, and indifference; there was also fun and serenity, as well as reliance on love, faith, and hope. How to feel this day? Live in a smartphone or real world? - Come outside, Masha. Feel yourself alive.

  • Still frame from the movie LOW CEILINGS

    LOW CEILINGS

    Pavlo Odnonozdriev Ukraine

    8 min
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    2021
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    Language of dialogues

    The physical remnants of the Soviet past are ingrained into the DNA of Dnipro, Ukraine. On the surface, it is a story about the city's forgotten constructions, but just like they linger on its horizon, so do the relics of the Soviet mentality remain at the center of our collective consciousness. 

  • Still frame from the movie THE SECOND WAVE

    THE SECOND WAVE

    Mariia Stoianova Ukraine

    5 min
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    documentary
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    2021
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    Language of dialogues

    Future comes now and in the next second, like waves; while the photography stays at the depth where the wave no longer moves the water particles. This depth is equal to about one-half the distance between me and my grandfather. The distance between us is called a wavelength.

  • Still frame from the movie IMAGINARY LANDSCAPES

    IMAGINARY LANDSCAPES

    Mykyta Lyskov Ukraine

    4 min
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    animation
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    2020
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    Language of dialogues

    Sometimes abstract spots and lines form a landscape.

  • Still frame from the movie POWER ANT TRUTH

    POWER ANT TRUTH

    Roman Bordun

    5 min
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    documentary
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    2020
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    Language of dialogues Ukrainian

    2020 has become the year of empty streets in the city that never sleeps – New York. In spring and summer the parks have become one of the few places where you’re allowed to be during the quarantine. It created or strengthened park subculture. The author used here everyday walks in Sunset Park in Brooklyn to preserved her sanity and create a portrait of mass tragedy and the way it was overcome.

  • Still frame from the movie TIGER IS STROLLING AROUND

    TIGER IS STROLLING AROUND

    Anastasiia Falileieva Ukraine

    12 min
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    animation
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    2021
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    Language of dialogues

    Katsumi is feeling blue. While walking through a ghost Japanese town, she can see signs that her life has reached the point of no return. When she decides to end this misery, Magic Tiger appears. Can he save her?     

  • Still frame from the movie TERRITORY OF EMPTY WINDOWS

    TERRITORY OF EMPTY WINDOWS

    Zoya Laktionova Ukraine

    10 min
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    documentary
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    2020
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    Language of dialogues

    World War II and the plant caused my mother's family to move to Mariupol. The war with Russia and the environmental consequences of the plant's operation plays a key role in its future life.

  • Still frame from the movie THUS THEY WILL SING

    THUS THEY WILL SING

    Diana Horban, Anna Yutchenko Ukraine

    18 min
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    documentary
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    2020
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    Language of dialogues

    "Thus they will sing' is a movie-collage that interweaves human experiences, soromitski (shaming) songs, and the flow of modern life. Soromnitski (shaming) songs are traditional songs (spivankas) with erotic motifs, sung at weddings, vechornytsi (evening parties), and feasts. Although they were quite shameful to sing in everyday life, they were broadcasting the man and woman's behavior patterns. The tradition of creating the spivankas (these songs) still exists. Ostap Bohoslovets from Nadvirna town re-analyses the modern world of youth in his spivankas.