This year’s festival will go under the main theme of “Something in the Air”. The event will be held in Slavutych for the fifth time in 2018 and will run between May 9^th and 13^th.

“This topic is a rebellion against literalism, unambiguity, coarseness and brutality”, says Nadiia Parfan, the festival’s co-founder and creative director. “We live in a time when the media, labour relations and even personal life are constantly pushing us towards being reactive and simplifying complex matters. This year’s topic is about things that resist being captured and described. It’s about what’s hidden, perhaps the most important things in life: the flush that suddenly breaks out on another person’s cheeks; the “This is it” moment; the time you see another person and you know, through an inkling, that they’re going to be yours. It’s about intuition. It’s about the greatest mysteries of the world not having been solved, whatever some scientists in Australia might say. It’s about the sun that takes about 10 minutes to set but manages to provide a carnival of colours, a trip through all the shades of pink, blue and violet you could ever think of, and then some more. It’s about the way it’s then gone in a flash, leaving you wondering if any of that was real”.

This year’s festival programme includes the Cinema (International Showcase, MyStreetFilmsUkraine and “Palm of the North” competitions, the Retrospective as well as the 86 Trailer Award competition), Urbanism (Residency, Workshop, and Urban school for kids), and Music.

The International Showcase will feature half a dozen films, including “The Challenge” from the Italian director Yuri Ancarani, nominated for the Golden Leopard and awarded with the Special Jury Prize at the Locarno Film Festival, “Taste of Cement” directed by Ziad Kalthoum from Syria, nominated for the European Film Award for Best Documentary, as well as “Wall” by Moran Ifergan, nominated as the year’s best Israeli film at the DocAviv national festival. The full program of the 5th “86” festival will be announced in early April.

The festival’s crowdfunding campaign at Spilnokosht is to run by the end of March. Contributors are free to choose a range of gifts including festival passes, branded souvenirs and exclusive items selected by the organising team. The collected funds will cover part of the screening rights, the arrival of special guests as well as translation and subtitling services.

The festival is supported by: Slavutych City Council, National Endowment for Democracy, Plivka, Visegrad Fund, Current Time, ElektrizitätsWerke Schönau

From 28 April until 8 May, 2018, just before the start of the 5th Festival “86”, the architectural workshop will take place in Slavutych. Its participants will produce structures for temporary camping site, food court and recreation.

Ukrainian and international students, recent graduates and young professionals from all creative fields including but not limited to design, architecture, urban planning, landscape design etc. are invited to participate in the Workshop. The results of the project will be presented and inhabited during the upcoming festival.

This workshop is being organized to create  communities of practice, and knowledge sharing networks amongst people interested in creating new structures to guide public space and interaction. The project’s tutors are: HELLO WOOD (Hungary), MOOD FOR WOOD (Poland), COLL COLL (Czech Republic), 2021 (Slovakia), Formografia (Ukraine).

Application deadline is March 18, 2018.

UPD. To participate in the tour, please register online. As the event aims to support the festival’s crowdfunding, we ask participants to make donation either on “Спільнокошт” platform or on spot.

Date and time: March 18, 13:00

Place: Holosiivsky raion

The exact place of meeting will be sent to your email after the registration.

Only 12 places left!

On March 18, specially for 86 festival, arts researcher Zhenya Molar will guide a tour across Kyiv’s research institutes. During the tour you will overview Soviet monumental panels that remained safe on walls of those buildings. The event is a part of our crowdfunding campaign on “Спільнокошт” platform.

Artistic decoration of research institutes of the 60’s-70’s of the XX century in Kyiv

In the second half of the twentieth century, a large number of research institutes were actively developing in Golosiivsky district of the capital, which marked the progressive advance of Ukrainian Soviet science. The new modernist buildings were erected, and a special artistic solution was developed. Now such objects retain works of the most prominent monumental artists of that time: Ivan Litovchenko, Galyna Zubchenko, Grigory Pryshedko, Mykola Storozhenko, and Ivan Marchuk.

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У рамках краудфандингової кампанії на Спільнокошті «86» організовує серію кінопоказів. У найближчі вікенди глядачі побачать дві стрічки, що були представлені у програмі фестивалю 2017 року. Надолужити пропущене, передивитися вподобане чи привести друзів на фільм, якого більше ніде в Україні не побачиш, – усе це можна зробити, заразом підтримуючи фестиваль. Гроші, виручені від продажу квитків, буде внесено на рахунок «86» на Спільнокошті.

4 березня показуємо «Щурячий фільм» (Rat Film) Тео Ентоні, що досліджує історію Балтимора через шляхи міграції гризунів. Вивчаючи ситуацію через архівні фото, документи, мапи, а також сцени за участі «мисливців» на щурів, автор доходить висновку: розбиття міста на зони більш як півстоліття тому визначило місця, заселені щурами сьогодні. Cвітова прем’єра стрічки відбулася на кінофестивалі у Локарно. Фільми Тео Ентоні також мали прем’єрні покази у Торонто, Роттердамі та в Anthology Film Archives, а часопис Filmmaker назвав режисера одним з 25 нових облич незалежного кіно.

Довгоочікуваний показ картини «Усі безсонні ночі» (All these sleepless nights) Міхала Марчака відбудеться 11 березня. Автор  спостерігає за життям двох польських юнаків: ночі вони проводять, гуляючи порожніми варшавськими вулицями, пересуваються між клубами, домашніми тусовками та пляжними рейвами. Вони обрали життя безтурботного гедонізму й кожну мить витискають до краю із завидним фанатизмом. Стрічка отримала нагороду за найкращу режисуру в номінації «Світова документалістика» на кінофестивалі «Санденс».

Кінопокази відбуваються по неділях у просторі Plivka. Початок о 17:00.

We are happy to announce the long list of the projects, selected for participation in MyStreetFilmsUkraine: Commonplaces educational platform.

Piotr Armianovski, «Avdiivka FM»
Arif Bahirov, «Palazzo»
Liudmyla Belousova, «HYIP»
Vladyslav Burkhovetskyy, «Summer Cinema»
Lizaveta Herman, «Porcelain»
Lidiia Huzhva, «Despite Everything»
Stanislava Doronchenko, «Don Quixote without Sancho Panza»
Kateryna Zaporozhets, «Dripro Express»
Anna Korzh, «Window to a Yard»
Mykhailo Koroliov, «Axiom»
Zoya Laktionova, Tetiana Korneeva, «Diorama»
Iana Liubimova, «I’m for Druzhba»
Ania Nasadiuk, «Noone Will Come»
Yevhen Nikiforov, «Polovynkyne»
Katia Oliinyk, «FreeDom in Enerhodar»
Polina Olkhovnikova, «Abandoned»
Roman Potapenko, «Stadium»
Oleksandra Stepashko, «Moms change the East»
Iana Stoikova, «Renaissance»
Denys Torchylevskyy, «It’s Hard to Sit on Sabers»
Natasha Tseliuba, «In Cosmos»
Dmytro Chepurny, «The East»
Oleg Shynkarenko, «Theatre on the Island»
Jurii Judin, «The Absent»

On March 2 – 4 the participants will visit the workshop in Kyiv, during which they will work on development and preproduction. After shooting in March and April, the selection to the second tour will be held. The premiere screening of films from the short list will take place at 5th IFFU “86” in Slavutych on May 9 – 13.

Tutors of the project are: Chad Gracia, an American film and theatre director, the author of epic documentary “The Russian Woodpecker” that won the Grand Jury Prize at Sundance, Alina Gorlova, the director of “Kholodny Yar. Intro” documentary that was presented at OIFF and ArtDocFest, and Ostap Kostyuk, the author of “Living Fire (Zhyva Vatra)” piece that won Ukrainian National Film Award “Golden Dzyga” in two nominations.

On February 6, the Open Call for applications for the Urban Residency, organized by curatorial group METASITU, was announced in framework of the 5th International Festival of Cinema and Urbanism “86”. According to Terms and Conditions, urban researchers, architects and artists from/residing in/familiar with Baku, Tbilisi, Yerevan, Tallinn, Riga, Vilnius, Kyiv, Saint Petersburg, Moscow, Athens and Belgorod, as well as those from Poland, Slovakia, Czech Republic and Hungary are eligible to apply for the residency.

The text below is an official statement of the International Festival of Cinema and Urbanism “86” concerning participation of urban researchers, artists and architects from the Russian cities of St. Petersburg (Leningrad), Moscow and Belgorod in mentioned residency:

– We are working within Slavutych context, including its historical memory, so it’s important to keep it uncensored;

– Turning Slavutych into a central platform for discussion about the post-Soviet (at least in course of the project) means transferring the role of the capital to the periphery, and thereby deconstructing the hierarchy.

– We choose culture and dialogue as future – opposite to war and aggression in present;

– We believe that culture has a peacekeeping and constructive potential;

– Curators are indeed in charge of the projects they are implementing in frames of the festival. They are professionals, so the decisions they make are also professional and have a decent argumentation either aesthetical or political or both.

– Participants are not getting any honoraria, and the money they receive during the residence are spent entirely in Ukraine and facilitate the growth of local business and contribute to Ukrainian state budget in form of taxes.

Extract from the official statement of curatorial group METASITU regarding the Urban Residency at the 5th International Festival of Cinema and Urbanism “86”:

“We are not establishing formal relations with a State, but with individuals. We understand that at times of conflict it is often difficult to distinguish between the two, but it is necessary. And we find that culture has a tremendous potential for opening up these lines of dialogue. Only when we can conceive a different future we can make it possible to work towards it. Where people are treated for what they do, not what they represent.”

“We are not necessarily seeking ‘Russian’ representatives, but people from/resident in/ familiar with Moscow, Saint Petersburg and Belgorod. These cities are inhabited by people from different nationalities, different passports, backgrounds, different political affiliations, and biographies.”

“The residency participants will be selected by the Jury members mentioned in the Open Call based on the merits, engagement to the territory, and ideas expressed by the applicants.”

We want to produce a post-national world, where people question their relationship to territories, and channel that identity into relationships with each other, towards shared values. We understand that this is a wish of privilege, for the world, as a space, is heavily regulated: unfortunately borders, and passports still determine who gets in, and who does not.

Cities are not countries. Nation states are about who is in and who is out, they determine a national language, a national myth, a national zeitgeist. Cities, on the other hand, are polyglots, adhere by different myths, they live in a myriad of ‘nows’. Cities are nodes where people come together. This was perfectly present in the design of Slavutych that brought different urbanists together. This unique heritage and legacy is something that we want to honor, understanding the complex nature of it, particularly in the current geo-political context.

The residency participants will be selected by the Jury members mentioned in the Open Call based on the merits, engagement to the territory, and ideas expressed by the applicants. The residency covers transportation, accommodation, production and per diems to cover their expenses while in Slavutych.

This is an opportunity to build bridges between urban practitioners from cities who have different histories and contexts, not to honor the imperialistic agendas of politicians. It is these urban practitioners that can later establish bottom-up change and propose a different vision for our everyday landscapes.

We are not necessarily seeking ‘Russian’ representatives, but people from/resident in/ familiar with Moscow, Saint Petersburg and Belgorod. These cities are inhabited by people from different nationalities, different passports, backgrounds, different political affiliations, and biographies. We are not looking at passports here (except in the case of Polish, Czech, Hungarian and Slovakian participants, which has to do with strict funding requirements), but rather for familiarity with urban contexts. We are not seeking for anyone to ‘represent’ any state, but rather the ability to come together and establish a new discussion about urbanism, honoring the unique past of Slavutych.

The people we are aiming to attract with this call are creators – individuals with the ability to imagine better futures, unforseen urban fates. In our opinion, this is the most important feature of a citizen of today: because only when we can conceive a different future we can make it possible to work towards it. A new world of new possibilities, rather than one of stagnant positions. Where people are treated for what they do, not what they represent.

We are not establishing formal relations with a State, but with individuals. We understand that at times of conflict it is often difficult to distinguish between the two, but it is necessary. And we find that culture has a tremendous potential for opening up these lines of dialogue. They are important.

This conversation is important. Let’s continue. Let’s imagine another future together.

Let’s.

– METASITU

Deadline for applications for MyStreetFilmsUkraine educational platform has moved to February 19. Anyone who has an idea for a documentary within the theme of this year, Commonplaces, is eligible to apply. Semifinals will receive technical and logistic support, advice from experienced mentors and the chance to shoot and produce their films. The films created during the project will be screened at the “86” Festival in Slavutych.

The theme of this year’s MyStreetFilmsUkraine is Commonplaces. Urban studies suggest that it only takes a place for some things to happen. Perhaps a lack of common spaces is the main reason for societal challenges? We can’t offer a guarantee, but we’re sure that some of the most interesting changes in Ukraine are taking place in the East right now. We are interested in stories from the Donetsk, Luhansk, Zaporizhia and Dnipropetrovsk regions focused on old or new cinemas, museums, libraries, theaters and other places enabling people to fulfill their social nature.

Tutors of the project are: Chad Gracia, an American film and theatre director, the author of epic documentary “The Russian Woodpecker” that won the Grand Jury Prize at Sundance, Alina Gorlova, the director of “Kholodny Yar. Intro” documentary that was presented at OIFF and ArtDocFest, and Ostap Kostyuk, the author of “Living Fire (Zhyva Vatra)” piece that won Ukrainian National Film Award “Golden Dzyga” in two nominations.

Aspiring participants are to submit ideas for films by the 19th of February using the application form. The winner will be selected by the international jury during the “86” festival in Slavutych. The winner of the Grand Prix will receive the chance to present their film personally at the prestigious international film festival. Travel and living expenses are covered by the festival. For more details, please contact: nadia@86.org.ua.

Partners: DE NE DE, Kod Mista

86 Trailer Award. If you are a film festival representative, share with us your festival trailer(s) that you are proud about. The best trailers will be screened at 86 IFFU in Slavutych and will compete for the 86 Trailer Award.

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Deadline: March 1, 2018

Urban Residency is inviting urbanists, artists and architects from/residing in/familiar with Baku, Tbilisi, Yerevan, Tallinn, Riga, Vilnius, Kyiv, Saint Petersburg (Leningrad), Moscow, Athens and Belgorod to apply, and work with their corresponding districts in Slavutych. Applicants from Poland, Slovakia, Czech Republic and Hungary are also welcome to apply, and work with Pechersky, Dobryninsky and Chernihivsky districts.

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Deadline: March 7, 2018

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As part of its Urban Program, the International Festival of Film and Urbanism «86» invites up to 14 urbanists, architects and artists via an Open Call to spend four weeks in the town of Slavutych (Ukraine) from April 18 to May 13, 2018. During their stay, residents are asked to reflect on the historical development as well as potential futures of the 14 districts that make up the city.

The call is free of charge and open to urbanists, architects and artists from/residing in/familiar with Baku, Tbilisi, Yerevan, Tallinn, Riga, Vilnius, Kyiv, Saint Petersburg, Moscow, Athens and Belgorod, as well as those from Poland, Slovakia, Czech Republic and Hungary.

Deadline for the submission of applications is 7th March 2018 (23:59 UTC+02:00/ Ukrainian time)

The residency outcomes will be presented during the 5th edition of 86 Festival (May 9-13, 2018).

The residency is curated by METASITU, directors of the Urban Program of the 5th Festival of Film and Urbanism «86».

With this project supported by Visegrad Fund we want to rethink the post-nuclear town of Slavutychin the broader context of Eastern Europe with the means of contemporary art and promote it as a center of modern film, culture and innovative urbanism.

While the historical and urban context of Slavutych is quite unique, its challenges are similar to those of many other towns in Visegrad that are undergoing the process of post-industrial and post-socialist transformation. The experience of the V4 partners will support Slavutych inhabitants in rediscovering identity of their town. International residents will help us “translate” the experience of Slavutych to Europe and will spread the word about the other side of the Chernobyl tragedy. Program exchange between “86” and other similar initiatives in the V4 countries will multiply the results of individual curatorial efforts and make it possible to explore the questions of urbanism, cities, architecture, urban spaces and communities in the wider regional context.

“86” seeks for sustainable urban change and active involvement of local community. Unlike most of the one-time or temporary events, we are extending the festival’s presence in the city throughout the year. We are also facilitating deeper interaction between artists/curators and local community in order to activate local creative potential.

That’s why our particular solutions are:

1) A one-month international urban residency that will culminate during the 86 Festival

2) A building workshop that will apply the original masterplanning methodology to a campsite under the guidance of tutors from V4 countries and Ukraine.

With support of Visegrad fund

in partnership with
Galeria Labirynt, Poland
Association Kolektyw 1a, Poland
Hello Wood Ltd, Hungary
DOC.DREAM services s.r.o., Czech Republic
KAIR, Slovakia
2021 s.r.o., Slovakia
COLL COLL, Slovakia

86 IFFU launches the crowdfunding campaign at Spilnokosht. Make donation and choose your gift!

The money collected is to cover part of the screening rights, the arrival of special guests as well as translation and subtitling services.

Under the rules of “Spilnokosht”, each contributor is free to choose the size of their donation, as well as one of the rewards prepared by the organizers. The prize pool on offer from us includes festival passes, branded souvenirs and exclusive gifts from the team.

The decision to engage a crowdfunding campaign was made due to an increase in scale: the festival’s audience has multiplied tenfold over the four years of its existence.”86″ relies primarily on cooperation with international funds and organisations in terms of funding’, says Nadiia Parfan, the festival’s creative director. ‘Work on each subsequent edition of the festival begins as soon as the previous one comes to an end. We go rummaging for money each year, collecting the necessary amounts from scratch and in a patchwork fashion, which is both effort-consuming and risky. Therefore, working in precarious conditions, we remain financially vulnerable. Our task is to amortise the risks, to find reliable backers and to receive the funds for the forthcoming festival within a reasonable time-frame.’

Following last year’s edition, the festival has already managed to win the competition of the Ministry of Culture of Ukraine and to find several partners, including the ‘Current Times’ TV channel and the EWS Foundation. They are prepared to cover part of the expenses.

The campaign will run for two months, from February to March. It is planned to accumulate 120 thousand hryvnias. The idea of “86” is supported by the International Renaissance Foundation which is prepared to double the amount collected using a grant program, should the crowdfunding goals be met. The items to be covered by crowdfunding are not limited to film screening rights and translation services, but also span technical support, art project organisation and food court logistics.

The 5th Festival of Film and Urbanism “86” is to be held in Slavutych between May 9 and 13, 2018.

86 IFFU has opened call for applications for educational program MyStreetFilmsUkraine 2018. This year’s topic is Commonplaces. Last year’s program saw us travel extensively, trying to grab a hold of the Ukrainian East. We looked at the colored smoke of Azovstal, took a dip in the waters of the Azov Sea, got scared by gunfire in Mariinka, took photos against the background of the chalk mountains near Slaviansk, and then we gave ear to the stories of the settlers – sad, funny, and sometimes both.

While looking to understand the East, we realized there was no such thing as ‘the East’. There are myriads of towns and cities, factories, both abandoned and operational, and thousands of people with a story to tell but few to tell it to. A single thing could unite them – a place for the conversation to happen. We’ve got bad news, though: the East lacks these, sometimes to a catastrophic extent. The good news is that their numbers are on the rise, and the people behind them are outright fantastic.

Urban studies suggest that it only takes a place for some things to happen. Perhaps a lack of common spaces is the main reason for societal challenges? We can’t offer a guarantee, but we’re sure that some of the most interesting changes in Ukraine are taking place in the East right now. They’re evident in the new hotspots of public life. These include cultural and public initiative platforms “TIU“, “Teplytsia” (“The Greenhouse”), “Vilna Khata” (“The Free Hut”), “Druzi” (“Friends”), local lore museums that have dared to engage modern artists of the “DE NE DE” initiative and reinvent their old expositions, as well as newly created youth platforms: the skate park inside the old cinema in Lysychansk, the summer staircase cinema and the wooden pier in Kostiantynivka.

This year’s MyStreetFilms continues its journey across the East in search of common spaces and the heroes behind them. We are interested in stories from the Donetsk, Luhansk, Zaporizhia and Dnipropetrovsk regions focused on old or new cinemas, museums, libraries, theaters and other places enabling people to fulfill their social nature.

Aspiring participants are to submit ideas for films by the 15th of February using the application form.

Semifinals will receive technical and logistic support, advice from experienced mentors and the chance to shoot and produce their films. The winner will be selected by the international jury during the “86” festival in Slavutych. The winner of the Grand Prix will receive the chance to present their film personally at the prestigious international film festival. Travel and living expenses are covered by the festival. For more details, please contact: nadia@86.org.ua.

Timeline:

February, 15 – deadline for applications
February, 19 – publication of semi-finalists
March, 1 – 4 – pre-production workshop in Kyiv (concept development, basics of production)
March – April – production, fieldwork, consultations with mentors, assembly cut
April 26 – 29 – post-production workshop in Kyiv (editing, sound, dialogues)
May 9 – 13 – premiere at 86 IFFU

Partners: DE NE DE, Kod Mista

Selected films from previous years of MyStreetFilmsUkraine:

“Among the Huts“, directed by Oksana Nosach, a Pozniaky village struggling for survival.
“Bridge“, directed by Olena Moskalchuk, Oksana Nosach, an elegy to the Rybalsky bridge.
“In the East“, directed by Piotr Armianovskyi, a spring 2015 panorama of Kramatorsk.

Organizing a film festival but want to win an award? Submit your festival trailer to the first Film Festival Trailer Competition!

We believe that a festival trailer can be an art form in itself and concisely communicate the unique spirit and values of a film festival. If you are a film festival representative, share with us your festival trailer(s) that you are proud about.

The best trailers will be screened at the 5th International Festival of Film and Urbanism “86” in Slavutych and will compete for the 86 Trailer Award.

The deadline for submissions is March 1, 2018.

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Фестиваль «86» широко представлений на цьогорічному Міжнародному фестивалі документального кіно Ji.hlava, що відбудеться 24-29 жовтня в місті Їглава, Чехія.

Співзасновник і програмний директор «86» Ілля Гладштейн буде членом журі у міжнародній конкурсній програмі Between the Seas, де змагатимуться стрічки з Центральної та Східної Європи.

26 жовтня о 9:30 генеральна директорка фестивалю Надія Парфан спільно з режисеркою Марією Стояновою представлятимуть короткометражний фільм «Ма».

Це перша українська стрічка, яка бере участь у конкурсі Short Joy, але вона вже встигла:
– побувати на міжнародному кінофестивалі «Біографілм» у Болоньї;
– отримати спеціальну відзнаку на «Молодості»;
– перемогти на конкурсі «Гогольфест»;
– відвідати не один десяток міст і кіномайданчиків України.

Також команду «86» можна буде помітити на церемонії Festival HUB 27 жовтня о 19:30.

Маємо гарні новини й для славутичан. Вже зараз автобус із мешканцями міста прямує до Чехії у рамках проекту Made in Slavutych, який три роки розробляла чеська мисткиня Катержіна Шеда. Для чого вони йдуть на весілля та які міста Чехії ще «постраждають» від напливу славутицьких туристів? Спитаєте у нас, коли 40 задоволених і повних європейської культури людей повернуться додому.

From Kyiv, Boryspil, Chernihiv

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