Line up: Mykhailo Bondariev, Vitalii Nemchenko, Zhenia Stepanenko, Fіlіp Sotnichenko
Open: 16:00 - 19:00 hrs
Tickets: € 7.50
Ukrainian film events #1 x Ventilator Cinema
Ventilator and Ґanok launch a new series dedicated to independent Ukrainian cinema. The opening event brings together two mockumentaries that use staged documentary form to explore memory, history, and the blurred line between fact and fiction.
Drawing on amateur-style footage, archival material, and constructed narratives, the films examine how personal and collective pasts are shaped, replayed, and mediated — from intimate family rituals of the 1990s to the myths and traumas of the Soviet era. Shifting perspectives and temporal overlaps invite the audience to question not only what is remembered, but how these stories are told.
All ticket proceeds and on-site donations will support Ukrainian volunteer initiatives providing medical aid to the International Legion.
Screenings:
Hedgehog Cakes: Sweet Weapon of Terror ‘20 (2025) — an absurdist, unsettling dive into the collective totalitarian world of Stalin's hysteria and cultural myth-making directed by Zhenia Stepanenko.
Nail ‘32 (2016) — a fictional documentary by Fіlіp Sotnichenko about the Kyiv family’s emigration to Switzerland in the first fragile years of Ukrainian independence.
Schedule:
Doors Open 16:00
Film opening presentation 16:30 - 16:40
Screenings 16.40 - 17.30
Q&A 17:30
Drinks at bar 18:00
Presentor: Vitalii Nemchenko
Main fundraiser link: https://send.monobank.ua/jar/2zJgczmqdp