Ukrainian film festival in Israel

Ukraine Aviv 2024

Ukrainian film festival in Israel

Day 1

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Tuesday, 9 April 2024


18:30

SHTTL

Director: Ady Walter

Drama, History

12+

A one-shot drama film tells the expansive, multi-character story of a Jewish village in Ukraine on the border with Poland 24 hours before Nazi Germany invades the Soviet Union.

18:30 — 21:00

DJ Dominic

21:15

La Palisiada

Director: Philip Sotnychenko

Drama, Crime

18+

Ukraine, 1996. 5 months before the moratorium on the death penalty. Two old friends - a police detective and a forensic psychiatrist - are investigating the murder of a colleague whose widow both of them loved when they were young.

Day 2

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Wednesday, April 10, 2024

16:30

Kings of rap

Director: Myroslav Latyk

Drama, Musical

18+

A seventeen-year-old village school graduate, a guy nicknamed Kazan, dreams of becoming a famous rapper and winning the heart of his girlfriend Sveta.

18:45

We will not fade away

Director: Alisa Kovalenko

Documentary

12+

Having grown up among the ruins, minefields, bomb shelters and coal mines of the Donbas, Andriy, Illia, Lera, Liza and Ruslan live in a world where, ever since 2014, shelling and gunfire have been as commonplace as the ever-present yearning for a better life.

18:30 — 21:00

DJ Nadin Push

21:15

Stay online

Director: Eva Strelnikova

Drama

18+

Ukrainian screenlife fiction film made during the Russian full-scale invasion.

Day 3

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Thursday, 10 April 2024

18:30

The Living Fire

Director: Ostap Kostyuk

Documentary

A four-year-long project documenting three generations of Ukrainian Carpathian shepherds in their struggle to keep the age-old trade alive in the face of contemporary changes.

20:00 — 21:00

band Brus-Li Duo & iDM-bass & Maria Brushnitska

21:15

Rocky road to Berlin

Director: Olga Ryashina

Comedy, Adventure

12+

The story is centered on a novice musician called Kuzma. He and his friend Bard set out to Berlin, driving an old Pobeda car where he wants to exchange it for a Mercedes 600 from a German collector and impress his girlfriend Barbara.