05.10 | 17:00
07.10 | 17:00 Q&A
16+
"In heaven that's all they talk about — the ocean..."
And on earth, all the talk is about war. We try to run away from it. To protect ourselves from terrible thoughts. To close our eyes to obituaries. However, it is everywhere, now it permeates our entire being. C`est la vie — you can't run away and you can't hide. This is what this year's Ukrainian competition is about. It is about war in all its ugly manifestations—about horror, rage, and separation. About the struggle that unites the whole country. About pain, which is different for everyone. To live, to accept, and to survive. And always remember.
Please note that the Ukrainian competition and New Faces are combined into one screening.
The total running time is 90 minutes.
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Ukraine, Austria | 04:00 | 2022
Our memories play an important role in the construction of identity and self-awareness. My childhood memories have acquired a special value for me since the outbreak of the full-scale war in Ukraine, my home country. For many children, this time will become a formative memory. My childhood in Ukraine was different, and I want to share it with the audience in the form of an animated short. In the film, I tell a personal story about my childhood memories and explore how memories are preserved and why they have a special meaning for people.
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Ukraine | 08:10 | 2023
A toy orca from childhood appears in our heroes' life. Now it looks like a big real mammal with a defined mission: to lead the heroine from her everyday life to an adventure she was waiting for.
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Canada, Ukraine | 03:29 | 2023
Our world is a beautiful garden of incredible colours, and it is understandable to anyone who can forget about what monsters can live here.
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Ukraine | 05:20 | 2023
The phantom aspect is an emotional transfer into the image of the feeling of a phantom siren against the background of a real war. It triggers the sensation of hot bitumen spreading through the veins.
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Ukraine | 07:26 | 2022
«Mariupol. A Hundred Nights» tells us a story of a little girl who wakes up on February 24th because of the air raid alert and tries to find someone living in the burning city. The main character is based on the story of Alice, a 4-year girl who stayed in the besieged Mariupol the whole time. She was also at Azovstal during the last month of defence. When russians allowed the evacuation of civilians from Azovstal, Alice was separated from her mother.
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Ukraine | 02:56 | 2023
This is an autobiographical story about the loss of a home and farewell to relatives due to the war. A story that, unfortunately, is familiar to many Ukrainians.
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Ukraine | 06:10 | 2023
Morning in Ukraine. A russian missile hits an apartment building. Terrible destruction that leads to death. But Death decides to intervene in the situation, hesitating to take the life claimed by a russian missile.
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Ukraine | 03:56 | 2023
This is a story about a couple forced to separate due to the circumstances of the full-scale invasion of russia into Ukraine. Their relationship is affected by the long-distance communication and transformation of everyday life filled with the stresses of war, evacuation and military service. This is a reality of millions of Ukrainians whose life has changed forever since the 24th of February 2022.
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Ukraine | 02:00 | 2023
Someday it will happen. You'll find yourself in an illusionary, disturbing place. Everything you ever knew about the world will steadily fade away with each passing day. You'll end up in an infinite void. You’ll start to fall apart. To lose the sense of space and time, the sense of your body and your own breathing, until the world will wipe you out. And then there will be silence. Will you be able to reinvent yourself?
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Ukraine | 04:45 | 2023
The Sun is breaking into pieces, and hard times are coming, but Mokosh has the power to prevent this world from dying under the wreckage of the old sun. Mokosh is the life-giving goddess in ancient Slavic mythology, Mother Earth, who rules nature and has the ability to both create and destroy.