UA Shorts 1. BRIDGING GAPS
Ukrainian Film Festival Berlin 2023
Das kuratierte Animationskurzfilmprogramm, das in Zusammenarbeit mit dem LINOLEUM Contemporary Animation and Media Art Festival erstellt wurde, präsentiert die Talente ukrainischer Animatoren.
Diese Werke zeichnen sich durch ihre Seltsamkeit, Wildheit und Freiheit aus und halten sich nicht an ein gemeinsames Thema; jedes erzählt seine eigene unverwechselbare Geschichte.
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Während der Krieg in vielen der Filme ein prominentes Thema darstellt, spielt er unterschiedliche Rollen – manchmal als zentraler Antagonist und zu anderen Zeiten als eine tragische Routine, die zu einem unvermeidlichen Teil des Lebens der Figuren geworden ist.
UNTER DEM UNENDLICHEN HIMMEL | Oleksandra Dzhiganska | 4' | 2022
TROIA | Andriy Naumenko | 3' | 2022
MARIUPOL. HUNDERT NÄCHTE | Sofiia Melnyk | 7' | 2022
FRÜHLING | Mykyta Lyskov | 2' | 2023
KYJIW-USCHHOROD | Dar'ya Terekhova | 2' | 2023
DER KRIEG, DER RONDO VERÄNDERTE | Olha Havrylova | 16' | 2020
TIEFES WASSER | Anna Dudko | 6' | 2021
DER KRIEG, DER IMMER DA IST | Irina Harkavets | 1' | 2022
DER VERANTWORTLICHE HELD | Roman Lysenko | 5' | 2021
UNNÖTIGE DINGE | Dmytro Lisenbart | 14' | 2020
PAPIER ODER PLASTIK | Nata Metlukh | 8' | 2019
OHNE DICH BIN ICH NICHTS | OKEAN ELZY | Oksana Kurmaz | 3' | 2022
STILLER ZEUGE | Anhelina Bilous | 00:29' | 2023
Total 73 Minuten.
The Ukrainian Film Festival Berlin 2023 will take place from October 25 to 29 with this year’s topic “No time like home”. With this motto we want to invite you to explore together the concept of "home", its spacial and temporal dimensions through Ukrainian cinema. The search for meanings of home as well as questions of one's own origin and belonging determine this year's festival program. Be it personal film stories of directors who fled the war and arrived in Berlin, or cinematic explorations of the 1990s in Ukraine, where most of the contemporary Ukrainian filmmakers grew up. This year we will present for the first time a retrospective program. In cooperation with the Dovzhenko-centre and the German DEFA-Stiftung we will show the Ukrainian Poetic Cinema of the 1960s.
Plot: The curated animation shorts program, created in collaboration with the LINOLEUM Contemporary Animation and Media Art Festival, showcases the talents of Ukrainian animators. These works are characterized by their strangeness, wildness, and freedom, and they do not adhere to a common theme; each one tells its own distinctive story. While war serves as a prominent theme in many of the films, it plays different roles—sometimes serving as the central antagonist and at other times representing a tragic routine that has become an inescapable part of the characters' lives.