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NASHE OKO Feature Film Competition 2024
Bartka, 2023
Director: Volodymyr Bakum
Country: Ukraine
The camera follows district forester Vasyl Pavlovych into the woods as he nears retirement. Ukrainian director Volodymyr Bakum presents "Axe (Бартка)," a documentary that delves into the life of foresters, highlighting their crucial yet often overlooked role against the backdrop of the global climate crisis. Quiet yet poignant, the film scrutinizes deforestation and the exploitation of vital forest ecosystems, urging a reevaluation of our environmental practices.
Breathing, 2022
Director: Viktor Petrenko & Maria Pankova
Country: Ukraine
On February 24, Russia attacked Ukraine. This is one of millions of stories of Ukrainians who fled their homeland. The path of heroes from the snowy peaks to the destroyed cities, wrapped in fear and love for each other to find a safe place.
Cupressus, 2024
Director: Mykola Nosok
Country: Ukraine
With signing visa-free regime in 2017 between Ukraine and European Union the borders become open for the first time in 100 years and 79-years old self-taught artist gets a chance to accomplish his old dream and to set off on his first journey to Greece which he could only imagine from books and movies.
Dear Odesa, 2022
Director: Kyrylo Naumko
Country: Italy, Ukraine
Being afraid of losing connection with his hometown, Kyrylo visits Odesa once again. He tries to find out what does “home” mean to him and talks to Olha and Mykyta, who are not only Odesa natives but also his mother and his childhood friend. How was life in Odesa just 5 days before the war started? It takes a lot of courage to live everyday life knowing that your country can be attacked at any time.
Demiurge, 2023
Director: Olga Semak
Country: Ukraine
A tragicomedy about an amateur theater in Volyn. Seeking to overcome his personal crisis, а renowned stage and screen actor Petro returns from the capital city to his native village to create a theatre with his fellow villagers, thus proving to himself what he is still capable of.
Kilometre, 2024
Director: Hanna Tykha
Country: Ukraine
"Kilometer" is based on unique footage of the work of Ukrainian aerial reconnaissance in Bucha and Irpin in the
first month of the russian full-scale invasion of Ukraine. In the center of the story is film director Babylon 13
Roman Liubiy and his family, whose house got to be in the war zone from the very first day of the invasion.
The Light Slipping Through, 2024
Director: Volodymyr Kliuiev
Country: Ukraine, Poland
A professionally disappointed war journalists lens turns towards his own life, navigating through the shadows of a war-torn country in search of his missing friend and the light within himself.
A Poem for Little People, 2023
Director: Ivan Sautkin
Country: Ukraine, Lithuania, United Kingdom
A cinéma verité look at the most vulnerable caught up in the front lines of the Russo-Ukrainian War and the volunteers of an evacuation team, putting their lives on the line to save them.
Rule of Two Walls, 2023
Director: David Gutnik
Country: Ukraine
RULE OF TWO WALLS is an intimate look at the war in Ukraine, as seen through the eyes of Ukrainian artists who remained in their country to make art as a defiant act in the face of aggression.
The film presents the invasion of Ukraine as a war of memory, identity and truth. Using live music performance, painting, street art, and the act of filmmaking itself, it aims to illuminate the psychological frontlines of the crisis: how to go to a restaurant or bar amid the near-constant blare of air-raid alarms and missile strikes; how to process, react, and resist, while having to go about the rhythms of daily life.
Blurring the lines between what is seen in front of and behind the camera, the film probes what it means to make cinema in a time of war.
War Tails, 2024
Director: Olha Byrledianu
Country: Canada, Ukraine
When Russia invaded Ukraine in February 2022, Dan Fine arrived to Ukraine from Canada to help rescue animals near the front line. There Dan met Khrystyna - a brave Ukrainian pet rescuer and they became partners. Together with other Ukrainian volunteers they initiated the mission of saving pets and people from new enemy - rabies.
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