UKRAINA! FILM FESTIVAL
BRATY. OSTANNYA SPOVID (BROTHERS: THE FINAL CONFESSION) (2013)
Watchable. Grim and tragic - not surprisingly based on a Swedish novel. But it's Ukrainian so so it's terribly religious in addition. Not that the story is any less moving or hard-hitting - the film is made very well. It's just dark and heavy.
THE RUSSIAN WOODPECKER (2015)
Watchable. Just like in the case of Andrzej Fidyk's "Yodok Stories", when overt expression of political opinions is a threat to your freedom or even life, artistic performance is a way round. Fedor Alxeandrovich is a thorough documentalist, not shy of obtaining data surreptitiously. He's got radioactive strontium in his bones and a history of political opposition in his family (his grandfather). While many see him as an oddball, in this crazy world of public lies, he's the most normal. Step by step, he discovers a disturbing possibility - that the Chernobyl tests resulting in the 1986 catastrophe, were a front to hide a communist careerist's mistake which otherwise might have cost him life. Soon it turns out Soviets never disappeared. The only minus of the film is that, as the result of being so artistic, it lacks suspense.
PODZIEMNE PANSTWO KOBIET (2009)
Recommended. A shocking documentary about the horrible conditions of terminating pregnancies in Poland. That means 80-200 thousand women a year suffering humiliation and additional distress just as a result of the ban. It also makes some gynaecologists rich like warlords - shall I dub them banlords?
UKRAINA! FILM FESTIVAL
MAIDAN.
Watchable. It follows the development of the protest. It's like a chronicle without taking sides or giving a deeper insights. Watching the winter protest reminded me of ACTA protests in Poland a few years ago. I wonder if Polish women will be protesting in snow and frost shortly.
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