Screening of Ukrainian Shorts
21 February 2025
We will begin the evening with Before Curfew by Angelika Ustymenko, where we will follow Zhanna and Vasya as they navigate the complexities of queer yearning in wartime. A rather incidental meeting on the train turns into a spontaneous date fueled with long talks and walks around the beautiful city of Kyiv.
From there on we will journey from a flat in the Netherlands to a cozy backyard in Ukraine and back with Karolina Uskakovych and her grandmothers tomato seeds. Boots in the Ground, Hands in the Soil is an ode to a different kind of longing, a pull to preserving and nurturing the wondrous gifts of our scarred land. A short filled with ecologically oriented anti-capitalist critique at the dinner table and in the garden, if you listen closely to Zoya’s secrets you too shall have a good harvest in the upcoming year.
The evening will come to a close with Salt Salome and Max Svitlo’s experimental film Synemuru, which will carry us across different dimensions and landscapes alchemically crafted by the artists. An anarchic ode to love and life, Synemuru is sure to leave us with clues and puzzles of the ways in which the sense of time and place, bodies and psyches, even history itself is warped by wartime.