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Illusion

Year
2018
Country
Ukraine
Duration
16’
Director
Leonid Yezhurov

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.

CREW:
Director: Leonid Yezhurov
Producer: Ella Shtyka
Cinematographer: Oleh Robko, Leonid Yezhurov, Dmytro Bahnenko, Artem Sholomko, Ruslan Horlov, Yuliya Shaposhnykova, Petro Kobernyk
Editor: Volodymyr Kulikov, Leonid Yezhurov, Dmytro Tiazhlov
Production and Sales
Indie Lab
Director
Leonid Yezhurov

Leonid Yezhurov was born and lives in Kherson, Ukraine. He is a civil and culture activist. In 2016, he created a culture centre together with his friends on the premises of an old film theatre. In 2018, he participated in Indie Lab, a laboratory for young documentary filmmakers, and created a tragicomedy out of the chronicles of the culture centre to protect the film theatre and fight Soviet habits.

Selected Filmography

Illusion (2018)

Main Hall
Lira Cinema
vul. Velyka Zhytomyrska, 40
Q&A
Original language with English subtitles
Hall «GEGEMON»
Zhovten cinema
Kostiantynivska St, 26
Q&A
Original language with English subtitles
22 INTERNATIONAL HUMAN RIGHTS DOCUMENTARY FILM FESTIVAL
 6 — 13 
June 2025
Black Cleaning
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Black Cleaning
Year
2019
Country
Ukraine
Director
Piotr Armianovski
Duration
13’
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Gogol Doc
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Gogol Doc
Year
2018
Country
Ukraine
Director
Alisa Pavlovskaya
Duration
66’
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His Bastille
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His Bastille
Year
2019
Country
Ukraine
Director
Valeria Treshchova
Duration
50’
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Lifelong Songs
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Lifelong Songs
Year
2019
Country
Ukraine
Director
Ulyana Osovska
Duration
38’
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My Friend Don Quixote
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My Friend Don Quixote
Year
2018
Country
Ukraine
Director
Stanislava Doronchenko
Duration
16’
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