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Bardak Film Fest Presents
from Kortfilmfestival Leuven 2022 - Catalogue
by Cinema ZED • DOCVILLE • Kortfilmfestival Leuven • DALTON • Zomerfilms
Kiev, Mariupol, Donetsk, ... Since the invasion of Russia, the world learned many names of Ukrainian cities. One could almost forget that these cities had completely different connotations before the war and formed the background of a lot of Ukrainian short films. With the help of Bardak, the annual short film festival in the city of Kharkiv, the festival presents a programme of six short films that together tell the story of Ukraine. Stories of life before the invasion, but also of the conflict that started much earlier for a lot of Ukrainians, with annexation of Crimea and the war in Donbas region in 2014.
The city of Kharkiv, home to the Bardak Short Film Festival and one of Ukraine's most important universities, was bombed at the start of the invasion in February. Prof Lien Verpoest (KU Leuven) has since hosted her Ukrainian colleague Prof Pshenychnykh and will provide an introduction to the programme.
Programme 1h04 — Screening: Mon. 5/12 (17h30) in Cinema ZED Vesalius
Freelance
Anatolii Zavalishyn, Mykhailo Fischenko • Ukraine • 2017 • 2 min. A film featuring Kyiv, the capital of Ukraine. This story was awarded the prize for the brevity of narration.
2014
Myroslava Trofymchuk, Ganna Gladka • Ukraine • 2020 • 18 min. A documentary narrating the story and tragedy of a family from Eastern Ukraine, Donetsk region, where life is forever split in a before and after the war that started in 2014.
Me and Mariupol
Piotr Armianovski • Ukraine • 2017 • 9 min. Mariopol, the industrial city on the north coast of the Azov Sea, lives in the director's memories. The image he created of the city as a child is like a fairy tale. 20 years later, he returns to Mariopol.
Cry, Wolf
Markosh Kryzhak • Ukraine • 2017 • 4 min. A lone wolf wakes up in the forest. He ventures deeper into the forest and meets someone. An animated film about loneliness, inspired by distinctive Ukrainian folklore drawings.
Meanwhile
Juliia Appen, Aleksandra Vasina, Nikita Lyskov, Natasha Tseliuba • Ukraine • 2016 • 25 min. Three women, from Kiev and Sumy, recount their migration adventure: their experiences, memories, motives and feelings.
