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People Who Came to Power

Year
2015
Country
Ukraine
Duration
17’
Directors
Oleksiy Radynski, Tomáš Rafa

The film traces the gradual slide of a society into war. Shot in March-April 2014 in the Donbas region in East Ukraine, it represents the degradation of social protest into an armed uprising heavily backed by covert foreign invasion.

Production and Sales
Lyuba Knorozok, +380509687154, [email protected]
Director
Oleksiy Radynski

Oleksiy Radynski is a filmmaker and writer based in Kyiv. He is a participant at the Visual Culture Research Center – an initiative for art, knowledge, and politics founded in Kyiv in 2008.

Selected Filmography

People Who Came to Power (2015)

Director
Tomáš Rafa

Tomáš Rafa was born in 1979 and lives in Warsaw. He studied at the Academy of Arts in Banská Bystrica and in the studio of digital media at the Academy of Fine Arts in Warsaw.

Selected Filmography

People Who Came to Power (2015)

Big Hall
Kinopanorama
vul. Shota Rustaveli, 19
Extended Q&A with directors
Cinema House, Blue Hall
Cinema House
vul. Saksahanskoho, 6
Extended Q&A with directors
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All Goes As Planned
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All Goes As Planned
Year
2015
Country
Ukraine
Director
Mykola Dondyuk
Duration
13'’
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Happy Easter
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Happy Easter
Year
2015
Country
Ukraine
Director
Svitlana Grigorenko
Duration
14'’
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Has-Beens
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Has-Beens
Year
2015
Country
Ukraine
Director
Olena Moskalchuk and Dmytro Burko
Duration
11'’
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Home
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Home
Year
2015
Country
Ukraine
Director
Anna Korzh
Duration
15’’
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Intersection
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Intersection
Year
2015
Country
Ukraine, Romania
Director
Dmytro Sukholytkyy-Sobchuk
Duration
20'’
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Lost
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Lost
Year
2016
Country
France, Ukraine
Director
Svitlana Shymko
Duration
9'’
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Panorama
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Panorama
Year
2015
Country
Ukraine
Director
Yuriy Shylov
Duration
27’’
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The Fighter’s Song
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The Fighter’s Song
Year
2016
Country
Ukraine
Director
Kristina Liulchenko
Duration
10’’
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Gregorian Syndrome. Part Three
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Gregorian Syndrome. Part Three
Year
2016
Country
Ukraine
Director
Dmytro Hlukhenky
Duration
15’
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Lost
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Lost
Year
2015
Country
Canada, Ukraine
Director
Oksana Karpovych
Duration
6’
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Reve ta Stohne on Tour
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Reve ta Stohne on Tour
Year
2016
Country
Poland, Ukraine
Director
Nadia Parfan
Duration
30’
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