Neisse Film Festival 2022 shows Ukrainian opening film
Director Maryna Gorbach, who is currently in Kyiv, hopes to come to the festival. Also invited is the photographer Oksana Yushko with her exhibition “Familia”. In it, she portrays Ukrainian-Russian couples in eastern Ukraine since the outbreak of war in 2014. And the main musical act at the festival is a band from Ukraine: DakhaBrakha. “It wasn’t clear whether the band could come,” explains festival director Stazsel, “or rather they stopped the concerts at the beginning of the war, but have now resumed them and say that the music of DakhaBrakha is the best weapon at the moment.”
–
Music, art and films from the Ukraine in the border triangle
Even if the Neisse Film Festival in the border triangle concentrates primarily on Germany, the Czech Republic and Poland, there are always cinematic excursions even further towards Eastern Europe, to the Ukraine – and also to Russia. However, Russian films were not originally planned for the current edition. “In this respect, we didn’t get into the situation of considering whether we wanted to show Russian films or not,” says festival director Stazsel. “Of course there are also filmmakers who are very critical of the system in Russia and these films would also be worth showing.”
–
Instead, apart from all the support and solidarity, there are Ukrainian productions that are rarely shown anyway: in May 2022 at the Neisse Film Festival and in April at the Dresden Film Festival.
–
–
