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Festival Trailer

Films

My Thoughts Are Silent

Director: Antonio Lukich     Genre: Comedy

Having experienced many setbacks in both his professional and personal life, 25-year-old Vadym gets a chance to start it all over. Just one task - to record the song of a rare bird that resides in the Carpathian mountains...

THIS FILM WILL ALSO BE SCREENED IN PERSON


Ivan’s Land

Director: Andrii Lysets’kyi     Genre: Documentary

A captivating and resplendent documentary portrait of an extraordinary folk artist whose joyous engagement and representation of the world elicit the attention of the cultural elite.

THIS FILM WILL ALSO BE SCREENED IN PERSON


BAD ROADS

Director: Nataliya Vorozhbyt     Genre: Drama

Four short stories are set along the roads of Donbas during the war. In this world, where tomorrow may never come, not everyone is defenseless and miserable - and even the most innocent victims may have their turn at taking charge.



THIS RAIN WILL NEVER STOP

Director: Alina Horlova     Genre: Documentary

Fleeing the Syrian civil war, Andriy and his Kurdish family start a new life in a small town in eastern Ukraine, only to be caught up in another military conflict. This visually arresting documentary takes a powerful look at humanity’s endless cycle of war and peace.

THIS FILM WILL ALSO BE SCREENED IN PERSON


PARTNER EVENT: MR JONES

Director: Agnieszka Holland     Genre: Drama, thriller, biography

James Norton stars as Gareth Jones, a Welsh journalist travelling to the Soviet Union on a reporting assignment in the 1930s. Jones escapes his cynical circle of media expats in Moscow and embarks on a secret trip south to Ukraine, following a tip-off about a raging famine. He encounters eerie and haunting scenes of human tragedy but his eye-witness accounts are later dismissed and denied.

Post screening discussion with Dr Daria Mattingley, University Cambridge. Hosted by Wimbledon Film Club.

Available: 23 November, in person screening at Wimbledon Curzon