Stand with Docudays: Film screenings in support of Ukraine

Tue and Wed | 5 and 6 Apr

One World Media is proud to be part of ‘Stand with DocuDays’, a collaboration between One World Media, Guardian Documentaries and Bertha DocHouse, on behalf of Ukraine’s DocuDays UA film festival, our partners in Kyiv for GSDF 2019. We’ll be screening two award-winning films exploring different faces of life in Ukraine, with ticket sales donated to Docu/Help, a fund set up by DocuDays to support Ukrainian filmmakers.

 

This Rain Will Never Stop

Dir. Alina Gorlova | Ukraine, Latvia, Germany, Qatar | 2020 | 102 mins

This film takes the audience on a powerful, visually arresting journey through humanity’s endless cycle of war and peace. In textured black-and-white, the film follows 20-year-old Andriy Suleyman as he tries to secure a sustainable future while navigating the human toll of armed conflict. From the Syrian civil war to strife in Ukraine, Andriy’s existence is framed by the seemingly eternal flow of life and death.

 

Date: Tue 5 April 2022

Location: Bertha DocHouse Screen, Curzon Bloomsbury, London WC1N 1AW

 


Roses. Film-Cabaret

Dir. Irena Stetsenko | Ukraine | 2021 | 88 mins

A tragicomic musical documentary exploring the heights of the cabaret genre in the modern world, following the seven female artists of the cabaret ‘Dakh Daughters’. Living through a pivotal moment in the history of their country, the Maidan Revolution of 2014, art becomes a way for the Daughters of Dakh to reflect upon those events and face harsh realities with wisdom and hope. This political cabaret draws its magic from combining the joie de vivre and the horror of the devastating war — even if we don’t see it, its shadow is always there, darkened by the bright stage lights.

 

Date: Wed 6 April 2022

LocationBertha DocHouse Screen, Curzon Bloomsbury, London WC1N 1AW

 

 

Both films will play in support of Ukrainian filmmakers as part of ‘Stand with DocuDays’, a collaboration between One World Media, Guardian Documentaries and Bertha DocHouse, on behalf of Ukraine’s DocuDays UA film festival.

Fifty percent of the proceeds from ticket sales will go to Docu/Help, the fund set up to support Ukrainian filmmakers.

 

ABOUT DOCUDAYS AND DOCU/HELP

Docudays UA International Human Rights Documentary Film Festival is held annually in the last week of March in Kyiv. The 19th edition of the festival was due to open on March 25th 2022. As the festival organisers cancelled their planned events, they set up Docu/Help, “a fund to support Ukrainian filmmakers who are documenting the events of the war in Ukraine right now: recording war crimes, filming footage for the international media and for their future films which will later give the world a more in-depth perspective on the situation in our country.” Read more here

 

 

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