Join us for an insightful lecture on Ukrainian documentary cinema 🎬
📽️ Filming Turbulent Times: Is There a Ukrainian Documentary Wave After 2014?
🗓 Tuesday, 8 April 2025
⏰ 18:30 - 20:00 (BST)
📍 Online
The Revolution of Dignity and Russia’s aggression in 2014 marked a turning point - not only in Ukraine’s political and social landscape but also in its cinema. Documentary filmmaking became a powerful response to change, and a decade later, Ukrainian documentaries are winning prestigious awards, including an Oscar for 20 Days in Mariupol. But does this signal a lasting movement, or is it a fleeting moment in global cinema?
Join Yuliia Kovalenko, PhD in Cultural Studies and Programme Director at Docudays UA, as she explores this remarkable transformation.
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Discover the full Kino 2025 seminar series - eight thought-provoking sessions on cinema.
Highlights mein Name ist Juda kowulen. I'm a Virgin Cultural Studies and a head of programming at the International Documentary Film Festival Doctor Raceway that takes place in Kiev. And also I'm a lecturer of the new online course of the Ukrainian Institute London called Ukrainian Cinema. A century of innovation, struggle and resilience. If I would ask you what do you know about the Ukrainian documentary cinema, most probably you would answer me that you know or even hopefully watched the film 20 Days in Mariupol by Mr. Slave Chernov, because this movie won the Oscar last year. And this was the first ever Oscar in the history of Ukrainian cinema. But it was not an accident that actually the documentary movie brought the first ever Oscar to Ukrainian cinema. Uh, because, you know, after the revolution of Dignity, after 2014, the documentary filmmaking in Ukraine developed so much from. Quite a, you know, basic level with low budget projects from almost an activist movement into something really artistically powerful, into a multilayered phenomenon. And now almost every beach, International Film Festival programs, Ukrainian documentaries. How did this happen? If you would like to know more about this, please join my lecture called Filming Turbulent Times. Follow the link in the description, share the information with your friends, with others who might be interested in this. Enjoy the online course of the Ukrainian Institute London. Thank you and see you.
