TEEN ANGST
TEEN ANGST
Performance
The genre of the teen angst films is usually dedicated to growing up and problems with parents, school and puberty. The nine young protagonists and film-makers of this film project have to deal with completely different problems however - they come from Ukraine and either live in a war zone or have to deal with the consequences of war. In the film, 16-20 year olds - Nastya Bebee, Yelyzaveta Chornomorets, Oleksandra Dolobovska, Ksenia Ilyina, Kamila Karpenko, Hanna Krutikova, Alieksandra (Alexa) Luchaieva, Sofiia Orudzheva and Anna Smyrnova – offer insight into their war-shaped existences in a manner at once intimate, personal, radical and honest. Their contributions speak of a search for security and contentment, for everyday life and hope. Yet how are they to care for themselves when fear for family and their fellow countrymen, death, separation and trauma are omnipresent?
Director Inga Pylypchuk lives in Berlin. Her film HOW FAR IS CLOSE featured at the FFC in 2023 in the Spotlight: Ukraine section.
Text: Charlotte Kühn
Double Feature with I SEE THEM BLOOM (Mykyta Gibalenko, DE 2023, 27 Min)
09.11.2024 | 16:00 | Kammerbühne (original version with English subtitles + simultaneous translation into German)
Nastya Bebee, Yelyzaveta Chornomorets, Oleksandra Dolobovska, Ksenia Ilyina, Kamila Karpenko, Hanna Krutikova, Alieksandra (Alexa) Luchaieva, Sofiia Orudzheva, Inga Pylypchuk, Anna Smyrnova
Nastya Bebee, Yelyzaveta Chornomorets, Oleksandra Dolobovska, Ksenia Ilyina, Kamila Karpenko, Hanna Krutikova, Alieksandra (Alexa) Luchaieva, Sofiia Orudzheva, Anna Smyrnova
Danylo Okulov
Oleksandra Dolobovska
Nastya Bebee, Yelyzaveta Chornomorets, Oleksandra Dolobovska, Ksenia Ilyina, Kamila Karpenko, Hanna Krutikova, Alieksandra (Alexa) Luchaieva, Sofiia Orudzheva, Anna Smyrnova
Inga Pylypchuk
Inga Pylypchuk - Inga Pylypchuk is a documentary filmmaker and author. She was born in Ukraine in 1986 and studied German and comparative literature in Kyiv and Berlin. In 2012-2014 she completed a traineeship at the Axel Springer Academy, in 2019-2023 she studied documentary film directing at the filmArche in Berlin. She has worked as an author, reporter and film critic for German media and wrote the weekly column “Film nach Gefühl” for “Welt Kompakt” from 2012 to 2014. In 2023, her first medium-length autobiographical film “Wie fern ist nah” (32 min.) premiered at the FilmFestival Cottbus. In 2024, she presents her new film “Teen Angst” (38 min.) in the “Specials” section in Cottbus. Inga Pylypchuk lives and works in Berlin.
Foto: Olena Kosovych
