Ukrainian Sheriffs: screening and Q&A
Date and time:
Friday 19 July, 2024
19:00 - 21:00
Location:
Centrala
Unit 4 Minerva Works, 158 Fazeley Street
Birmingham
B5 5RT
Our Ukrainian Documentary Season: ‘People Power’ returns to bring a set of three powerful documentaries from contemporary Ukrainian cinema to the streets of Birmingham, in partnership with Centrala Space and Docudays UA International Human Rights Documentary Film Festival.
The three-day film festival chronicles the profound changes Ukraine has undergone since the 2014 Maidan Revolution and Russia’s aggression, highlighting the stories of people united by a shared purpose. People Power is curated by Olga Sydorushkina, Ukrainian Institute London’s Programme Curator.
Country: Ukraine, Latvia, Germany
Welcome to Stara Zburivka, a small town at a turning point in Ukraine’s history, where local sheriffs Viktor and Volodya are trying to keep the peace.
In Stara Zburivka, on the mayor’s initiative, people chose two local men, Victor and Volodya, and gave them power to take care of the public order, as well as a car, and named them “sheriffs”. Following Viktor and Volodya on their everyday duties—involving stolen ducks and drunken neighbours—Ukrainian Sheriffs gives us a look beyond the war and the ongoing political events inside the everyday life of the villagers, foregrounding the tension between personal survival and political justice.
What was meant to be a film about a few people from the Ukrainian countryside and their everyday struggles, at the end portrays the faith of a whole nation during the turning period in its history.
