The Repressed

Original title: Витіснені

Ukraine, 26 minutes, 2025, documentary essay

Directors: Maryna Ya, Kostiantyn Maleonyuk

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For homeless people, urban space becomes a place to live. They live in parks, squares, manholes, and abandoned buildings. The city becomes a home. A bench becomes a bed, a dumpster a source of food, and fountains a shower. “The Repressed” is a compilation of stories from homeless people in Odesa about their dreams, fears, hopes, and anxieties.

Content warning: description of death

Film screening dates: 23.11.2025 — 07.12.2025

Medium black-and-white shot. Portrait of two people sitting on rocks holding drink cans. The girl on the left has fluffy, medium-length hair. She is wearing a white blouse, short shorts, long stockings, and black sneakers. The young man on the right has dark short hair and a mustache. He is wearing glasses, a dark jacket, and pants. Both look into the distance to the right.

About directors

Maryna Ya, Odesa. A student and activist of the independent initiative SAD that supports homeless people; an informal researcher, director, and journalist focusing on marginalized groups, as well as social hierarchies and resistance to them.

Kostiantyn Maleonyuk, Odesa. A student majoring in philosophy. An activist with the SAD collective.

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