This screening is a charity event in support of Ukrainian artists, filmmakers, and their families during the Russian aggression in Ukraine. Several films by members of the Freefilmers collective will be shown, and all proceeds from ticket sales will be transferred to them directly.

Freefilmers is an art group from Mariupol that makes documentaries and experimental films addressing social reality and human lives in the struggle for equality and freedom. Their activist films, created with the help of horizontal connections, raise issues of work, gentrification, and independent artistic practice.

The Freefilmers members are: Sashko Protyah, Oleksandr Surovtsov, Iryna Berezneva, Yulia Serdyukova, Oksana Kazmina, Vasyl Lyah, Vova Morrow, and Natasha Tseliuba.

The screening will be preceded by a video message from Sashko Protyah, who is currently in Ukraine.

Aside from ticket sales, you can also support Freefilmers here.

The films:

My cosmos
Natasha Tzeliuba.
2019, 10 min, Ukraine.
A film about a district called Cosmos in Zaporizhzhia.

Life outside CV
Sashko Protyah.
2019, 42 min, Ukraine.
Three stories about working class creative practices in Mariupol.

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Sashko Protyah & Vasyl Lyah.
2022, 7 min, Ukraine.
Experimental music video dedicated to the graffiti on tree bark.

Totally stranger
2018, 13 min, Ukraine.
Oleksandr Surovtsov.
A poetic artist’s moving image about Mariupol.