Загальний план, 3Д-зображення. На тлі бірюзового неба із сірувато-зеленкуватими хмарами летять мильні бульбашки різних розмірів, поцяцьковані пірсингом різноманітних конфігурацій.

Offline Screenings

This year, we continue to organise offline screenings with friendly initiatives in Ukraine and around the world.
The films are screened in their original language with extended Ukrainian subtitles (SDH) in Ukraine and English subtitles (SDH) abroad. After the screening, we offer a conversation with the festival organisers.

Timetable

24.11, 17:00
filmotopia
Berlin
Filmatopia: burn it down to set things right
Fembridgingcultures hub
Wartburg str. 41
24.11, 18:00
filmotopia
Lviv
Filmatopia: burn it down to set things right
Feminist Cinema Club “Фемоб’єктив”
st. Opilskogo, 8
Registration required
30.11, 17:00
filmotopia
Odesa
Filmatopia: burn it down to set things right
“Підпілля”
st. Kanatna 79
30.11, 18:30
filmotopia
Kharkiv
Filmatopia: burn it down to set things right
“Women Association Sphere”
Kulykisvkiy uzviz 13
02.12, 18:30
filmotopia
Dnipro
Filmatopia: burn it down to set things right
Dnipro Center for Contemporary Culture
21a Krutohirnyi Uzviz
3.12, 18:30
filmotopia
Dnipro
Film “Silence of Reason”
Dnipro Center for Contemporary Culture
21a Krutohirnyi Uzviz
4.12, 18:30
filmotopia
Dnipro
Film “You Think That The Earth Is a Dead Thing”
Dnipro Center for Contemporary Culture
21a Krutohirnyi Uzviz
5.12, 18:30
filmotopia
Dninpro
Film “Terror Nullius”
Dnipro Center for Contemporary Culture
21a Krutohirnyi Uzviz
8.12, 17:00
filmotopia
Kyiv
Filmatopia: burn it down to set things right
Drugstore space
st. Kyrylivska, 41, 2nd floor

Shot Film Program
Filmatopia: burn it down to set things right

The Filmatopia includes short films from this year’s festival programs: the eco-feminist “Who is Afraid of True Names?”, which reveals the interconnections between the environmental movement, feminism, and critique of colonialism; the queer camp “Unequal! Different! Angry!” program, which criticizes social inequalities through grotesque, brilliant glamour and parody; “Counter-Memories: Breaking the Silence», which touches on the topics of remembering and forgetting and how feminism questions the dominant politics of memory.
Medium shot. Warm color palette. A person with short pink hair, wearing a red t-shirt and black shorts, is reclining on a bed in a somewhat exaggeratedly seductive pose, yet with a calm expression on their face. Behind them, a dreamcatcher hangs on the white wall.
2 Spirit Dreamcatcher Dot Com
Unequal! Different! Angry!
Audiodescription
Director: Theo Jean Cuthand
Canada, 5 minutes, 2017, fiction
2 Spirit Dreamcatcher Dot Com queers and indigenizes traditional dating site advertisements.
Wide shot. Lush, deep green tomato vines with fruits in various shades of red and yellow. A girl crouches in the center of the frame, focused and calm, digging into the soil. Her body faces the camera, but her face is turned in profile.
Boots on the Ground, Hands in the Soil
Counter-memories: breaking the silence
Audiodescription
Director: Karolina Uskakovych
Ukraine, Netherlands, United Kingdom, 15, 2024, documentary
An exploration of human connectedness to landscape, the role of gardening during war, and the complexities of food systems—all mixed up in a borshch of family love.
Wide shot. Cool color palette. In the background, a column of smoke rises above the volcano. In the foreground, silhouettes of plants are outlined against the light.
Can A Mountain Recall
Counter-memories: breaking the silence
Director: Delfina Carlota Vazquez
Argentina, Mexico, 20 minutes, 2021, experimental documentary
A personal diary of a period living in Mexico and a portrait of the Popocatepetl, an active volcano.
A collage of three sketchbook pages featuring ink drawings of a dodo bird in black ink. Aged and yellowed paper, with handwritten italic notes along the illustrations.
Dead As A Dodo
Who is afraid of true names?
Director: Leena Habiballa
Sudan, 5 minutes, 2022, experimental
Dead As A Dodo lays bare the settler colonial mythology at the heart of the popular narrative of the Dodo’s extinction.
Medium shot. Warm tones, street at night, yellow streetlamp light falls on a person wearing a black wig, dark sunglasses, and bright makeup. The person stands against a white decorative gate, looking awkwardly to the side, holding a red fake bomb in their hand.
Homotopia
Unequal! Different! Angry!
Directors: Chris E. Vargas, Eric A. Stanley
USA, 27 min, 2006, fiction
Set sometime in the future-present Homotopia chronicles- a group of radical queer’s dedicated to exposing the trouble with gay marriage, dismantling the State, undoing Empire, while looking totally fierce.
Collage of two images. The background is an overhead view of a waterlogged terrain, completely transformed with multicolored outlines. On the right side of the frame is a still from an archival yellow-tinted video. A person in the foreground, surrounded by others, wears a white shirt, a pioneer necktie, and a papier-mâché onion mask.
zong
Who is afraid of true names?
Audiodescription
Directors: Teta Tsybulnyk, Elias Parvulesco, Svitlana Pototska
Ukraine, 9 minutes, 2019, experimental
Zamglai nature reserve is one of the largest bog systems in Ukraine. Its name probably derives from the Old Kurdish word ‘zong’ meaning bog.