my street films ukraine - DEN SMIKHU

MY STREET FILMS UKRAINE

For the fourth time in a row, the International Festival of Film and Urbanism "86" in Slavutych, Ukraine, has produced the short film almanac "My Street Films Ukraine". For the third time, selected entries will also be shown at the FFC, so it seems appropriate to call the series almost a fixed part of our program in the past years. A program item that should not be missing in this year’s series Close up UA!

The concept of the competition is to engage semi-professional and amateur filmmakers to portray their everyday life by filming their immediate environment. This year's films were made in the counties of Donetsk, Zaporizhzhya and Luhansk, focusing on "common places" – and everyday occurrence at the same time. They address the question of how places of community can reflect, challenge, silence, or become a catalyst for new thinking, reflection, and new beginnings, or fail because of social and political challenges in the regions. The protagonists in the portrayed commonplaces – whether a youth or sports club, museum, cultural centre, beach, street markets, railway stations and factories – are given a sensitive say. Voices of public life, mostly invisible in the media and yet speak loudly from the heart of the eastern Ukrainian province. Well done, dramatically and visually. WK