UKRAINIAN SHORT FILM SESSION
An eclectic genre blast of shorts: Pickles, Bombs & Borsch presents a package of films portraying everyday life in contemporary Ukraine - a country grappling with continual political upheaval and the toll of Europe’s forgotten war. Julian Knysh returns with more unmissable Ukrainian shorts that capture the new wave of an artistic explosion reflecting upon and actively redefining the culture!
HEARTBREAKER
THANK YOU!
When a man falls in love with the local supermarket cashier, he gives her his heart... literally... which, along with other packages, travels along the conveyor belt, straight to the checkout.
A young volunteer in an old van tries to deliver vital items to the military in the East, where there is fighting, but met by several roadblocks - both literal and figurative – along the way. Based on the true story of a real volunteer car that travelled more than 1,000 km through a combat zone, to deliver medicine and evacuate the wounded.
Dir. Oleksandra Brovchenko | 5 mins | Drama | AUS Premiere | 2018
Dir. Maxim Lyukov | 5 mins | Comedy | AUS Premiere | 2018
THE COFFIN
Dir. Kadim Tarasov | 9 mins | Existential western, short film | AUS Premiere | 2019 Having lost his family, old Ivan goes crazy, he paints his face and puts on a shamanic headdress with feathers on his head, takes out the icons from the frame. Ivan builds a coffin with his own hands and prepares for the meeting with death. It seems that no one and nothing can bring him back to his senses until an unexpected meeting with a stray black dog that changes his plans.
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ONCE UPON A TIME IN ODESSA
Dir. Vladek Zankovsky | 5 mins | Action/ Comedy | AUS Premiere | 2016 An assassination attempt on a high-ranking official in the center of Odessa, Ukraine.
CURATED BY JULIAN KNYSH
