Dmytro Tiazhlov

In Spring 2020, Ukraine is in lockdown. Returning to the family household after three years away, Olena Kyrychenko finds a depressive mother and an ill father, who is drowning his forced unemployment in alcohol. Her film chronicles with precision an extimate territory, located on the edge of the lost world of childhood and the disenchanted reality of adulthood.

A young Ukrainian journalist films “stories” on Instagram from the center of events. In the daytime, he is at the political demonstrations, at night – at the bars and parties. He has to decide where his own place is.

Герои фильма - выступавшие против авторитарной российской власти граждане России, которые теперь ищут убежища на Украине. Ждут ли их там? Алексей пытается получить статус политического беженца. Несмотря на сложности жизни без документов, он работает и участвует в гражданских акциях. Бегство Нурхан было связано с освещением межнационального конфликта в Оше (Киргизстан). Теперь она и с тремя дочерями тоже пытается получить убежище на Украине.

Герои фильма - выступавшие против авторитарной российской власти граждане России, которые теперь ищут убежища на Украине. Ждут ли их там? Алексей пытается получить статус политического беженца. Несмотря на сложности жизни без документов, он работает и участвует в гражданских акциях. Бегство Нурхан было связано с освещением межнационального конфликта в Оше (Киргизстан). Теперь она и с тремя дочерями тоже пытается получить убежище на Украине.

Герои фильма - выступавшие против авторитарной российской власти граждане России, которые теперь ищут убежища на Украине. Ждут ли их там? Алексей пытается получить статус политического беженца. Несмотря на сложности жизни без документов, он работает и участвует в гражданских акциях. Бегство Нурхан было связано с освещением межнационального конфликта в Оше (Киргизстан). Теперь она и с тремя дочерями тоже пытается получить убежище на Украине.

This absurd story began in Kherson, Ukraine. Young people create a cultural centre to protect the oldest cinema in the city. But the land at the centre of this city attracts officials and deputies; they want to free up the territory and start a war against the cultural activists.

While he was fleeing Ukraine, President Viktor Yanukovych tried to destroy all the evidence of his government's corrupt activities. In order to save the drowned, slashed and burned papers and bring about the punishment of the criminals in power, journalists and volunteers organized the White Collar Unit, which day by day is building up valid proof of the crimes from the tiniest pieces.

From its first days, the Euromaidan was guarded by Self-Defense - the volunteers who maintained order and security by working in shifts. Now most of them serve in the National Guard of Ukraine, and the rest have created self-defense squads in cities and villages all over Ukraine and maintain public order. The Odesa Self-Defense revealed a scheme for smuggling fuel via the sea port to the occupied territories of the Donbas.

The forefront of the global opposition between the state machine, corporations, and communities has been in Ukraine for the past few years. Symbols of the Maidan revolution – Molotov cocktails and burning tires – had already appeared in 2010 in a small village near Odessa. The community’s voice was not heard, and a peaceful protest against a mighty state energy project inevitably turned into violent clashes. Live Power is a four-year story, the story of the fight by the residents of the village of Usatovo against two transmission lines financed by EBRD to be built over their village, a story with the happy end.

The forefront of the global opposition between the state machine, corporations, and communities has been in Ukraine for the past few years. Symbols of the Maidan revolution – Molotov cocktails and burning tires – had already appeared in 2010 in a small village near Odessa. The community’s voice was not heard, and a peaceful protest against a mighty state energy project inevitably turned into violent clashes. Live Power is a four-year story, the story of the fight by the residents of the village of Usatovo against two transmission lines financed by EBRD to be built over their village, a story with the happy end.

The authors of the film spend several weeks observing four people on the eve of the presidential elections in Ukraine. All four of them are from different regions of Ukraine - Donetsk, Crimea, Irpin and Kyiv. What they have in common are the wounds they received during the protest actions in Ukraine. Maidan is losing its relevance, and the four characters in the film are trying to deal with their personal problems and take an active part in the country's civic life.

Молодой православный священник, которому надоело слишком много нетерпимости и лицемерия в Киево-Печерской Лавре, решает оставить служение. Он находит себе новую паству: геев, лесбиянок, бисексуалов и трансгендеров, а также людей, живущих с ВИЧ/СПИДом. Однако официальная православная церковь отказывает им в праве быть христианами, а гомофобное общество вынуждает их скрывать свою сексуальную ориентацию. Что должно произойти, чтобы Церковь приняла ЛГБТ-верующих?

Andrew Phillip Wolfensberger is a radio presenter on Winterthur community radio. Andrew's show Highnoon (the most flourishing and creative period) has been on air for six years and is famous for the song of the week - Andrew singing citizens' letters published in a local newspaper. The film is an essay about Swiss identity, community life, and the relationship between the man and the city.