20 Days in Mariupol

20 Days In Mariupol

Ukrainian members of the associated press find themselves besieged in the city of Mariupol during the first month of Russia’s invasion of Ukraine in 20 Days in Mariupol. Pulitzer Prize-winning video journalist Mstyslav Chernov filmed the devastation in the Southern Ukrainian city of Mariupol during Russia’s invasion of the country in February and March 2022….

Stay Online

Stay Online – Fantasia 2023

A woman volunteering in the fight against the Russian invasion of Ukraine helps a boy to locate his missing parents in Stay Online. Katya (Liza Zaitseva) is a volunteer from Kyiv assisting her brother Vitya (Oleksandr Rudynskyi) with installing GPS software on a laptop that once belonged to a man named Andriy Fetsenko (Roman Liakh)….

The Tribe

The Tribe

A new student at a boarding school for the deaf gets caught up with the local gang in The Tribe.  Sergei (Grigoriy Fesenko) is a shy deaf teenager, who has just enrolled at a new boarding school.  Sergei quickly finds that he has to prove himself worthy of the school’s gang, which results in him…

Ukraine Is Not a Brothel

Ukraine Is Not a Brothel

Following the fall of the Soviet Union, there was growing perception that all the women from Ukraine become prostitutes.  To combat this, the feminist activist organisation FEMEN was formed.  FEMEN members perform topless protests to speak out against the patriarchy left over from Ukraine’s Soviet past.  However, when it comes to the rights of women…