The special guest lineup for the 5th Festival of Film and Urbanism will include cinematographers, musicians, artists, architects and urban space researchers from Europe, Asia and Americas.

Göran Hugo Olsson, one of Sweden’s leading documentary directors, with awards from Berlin and Sundance, will personally present his new film “Fonko” and the retrospective featuring “Concerning Violence” and “Black Power Mixtape 1967-1975“. The director creates films based on archival records, which are compiled into solid pieces of anthropological research. While at the festival, Olsson will also introduce and comment on the films that influenced his vision as a director: Barbara Kopple’s “Harlan County, USA“, which received the 1977 Academy Award, and Andy Warhol’s “Chelsea Girls“.

Milton Guillén of Nicaragua will present the interactive movie “The Maribor Uprisings“: it provides the viewers with the opportunity to decide which camera they will follow and thus determine the film’s action. Independent film director Milton Guillén works at the intersection of feature films and documentary cinema in the context of ethnographic research.

The festival will also host the directors whose films have reached the final stage of the “Palm of the North” competition.  5 Ukrainian and 7 foreign films form the list. The honorary jury of the “Palm of the North” includes scriptwriter Nataliia Vorozhbyt, journalist Mariia Kuvshynova and program director of the Jihlava Film Festival Viktor Koreň. Maria Kuvshinova will present Alexander Mindadze’s film “Innocent Saturday“.

The MyStreetFilmsUkraine contest will be judged by the director Milton Guillén, Chief Editor of the Current Time channel Kenan Aliyev and co-founder of the Wiz-Art artistic formation Olha Reiter. The shows of MyStreetFilmsUkraine will be hosted by journalists Kateryna Serhatskova and Yurii Marchenko.

The festival’s urban programme is curated by the international art group Metasitu: Eduardo Cassina (Spain) and Liva Dudareva (Latvia). HELLO WOOD (Hungary), MOOD FOR WOOD (Poland), COLL COLL (Czech Republic), 2021 (Slovakia) and Formografia (Ukraine) have been invited to perform the role of tutors for the architectural workshop. The first international residence in Slavutych will host artists and researchers from seven of the countries which originally participated in the city’s construction.

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