Where Russia Ends

Program:

National Competition

Year:

2024

Country:

Ukraine

Genre:

Documentary

Duration:

25’

In the late 1980ʼs, a team of Ukrainian filmmakers from the Science Film Studio in Kyiv made a series of film expeditions to remote parts of Siberia. Their forgotten film reels had been rediscovered in Kyiv in 2022, after the Russian invasion of Ukraine. This was the starting point for a film essay that interrogates Russian imperialism, environmental destruction, and the ongoing oppression of indigenous peoples in Russia’s colonies.

Schedule

Oleksiy Radynskyi

A filmmaker and writer based in Kyiv. His documentary CHORNOBYL 22 won the Grand Prix at Kurzfilmtage Oberhausen in 2023. In 2022, his feature-length debut film INFINITY ACCORDING TO FLORIAN was awarded the Kinokolo Prize for the Best Ukrainian Documentary. His texts had been published in various media outlets including The Atlantic, e-flux journal, and Die Tageszeitung.

Filmography: «Колір фасаду: синій» (2019), «Колообіг» (2020), «Нескінченність за Флоріаном» (2022), «Чорнобиль 22» (2023)

Creative team

Director

Oleksiy Radynskyi

Camera

Max Savchenko

Editing

Taras Spivak

Producer

Lyuba Knorozok

Production

Kinotron Group