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.

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