Kiev/Moscow. Part 1+2

Der Majdan Nesaleschnosti ist der zentrale Platz der ukrainischen Hauptstadt Kiew. Denkt man an den Unabhängigkeitsplatz, denkt man heute besonders an jene Protestkundgebungen, die das damalige Regime im Winter 2013 / 14 zu Fall brachten. Die Freude darüber währte jedoch nur kurz. Zu drastisch war, was folgte: die Annexion der Krim, das Blutvergießen in der Ostukraine, die offensichtlich von Russland ausgehende Militäroffensive und die Zusammenstöße in Odessa, bei denen Hunderte verletzt und getötet wurden. In zwei Teilen dokumentiert Kiev/Moscow. die zivilen Unruhen und ihre Folgen, erzählt die Geschichten verschiedener Menschen – von Hoffnung und Erleichterung, von Angst und Tod, von Tränen und neuerlicher Hoffnung.

Maidan Nezalezhnosti is Kiev’s central square. It gave its name to the massive anti-government rallies that took place in the winter of 2013 / 2014 and eventually toppled the regime in the Ukraine. The joy of freedom was quickly overshadowed by the aftermath: the Russian annexation of Crimea, the bloodshed in the east, the lurking warfare lead by Putin and the clashes in Odessa. One way or another, all these events stem from the civil unrest on the Maidan square. Kiev/Moscow. follows the stories of hope, excitement, fear, and death of different people linked to this passionate revolution.

Director's Biography
ELENA KHOREVA is a Russian documentary filmmaker who graduated from Marina Razbezhkina’s School of Documentary Film and Documentary Theater in 2011. She contributed to the acclaimed Russian documentary anthology Winter, Go Away! which was shot during the 2011 and 2012 fraud elections in Russia. It premiered at the Locarno International Film Festival. Khoreva also co-directed The Term and Reality.Doc. // Films (selection): The Term (2014, doc), Reality.Doc (2014 doc), Kiev/Moscow. Part 1 + 2 (2015, doc)
European Panorama Documentary 2016
Elena Khoreva
Russland / Estland / Ukraine 2015
color
60 + 85 Minuten
OmeU
Kamera Eugenia Ostanina
Schnitt Elena Khoreva, Eugenia Ostanina, Pavel Kostomarov
Produzent*innen Pavel Kostomarov, Alexander Rastorguev (Realnost, RU), Maria Gavilova, Max Tuula (Marx Film, EE)
Produktion
Realnost Akademika Koroleva 21 119285 Moscow, Russia contact@realnost.com www.realnost.com
Website
Drehbuch / Screenplay Elena Khoreva, Eugenia Ostanina, Andrei Kiselyov, Maxim Pakhomov, Anna Dombrovskaya, Artur Moryakov, Beata Bubenets, Susanna Baranzhieva, Elena Khoreva, Tatiana Vikhreva, Yulia Tarantul, Zosya Rodkevich, Katerina Gornostay, Dmitri Vakulin, Maria Revenko, Ruslan Guzov, Tanya Gavrilyuk, Andrei Kovalevsky, Maxim Demsky, Ilya Kalashnikov, Keti Bidzionashvili, Arseni Razin, Alina Leonova, Galina Kononchuk, Alexandra Geylik, Anatoli Buravin, Yuri Agapov, Natalya Katayeva, Dmitri Shcherbakov, Mikhail Moskalenko

Weltpremiere / World Premiere
Locarno International Film Festival 2015 (Pt. 1)
Odessa International Film Festival 2015 (Pt. 2)

Premierenstatus / Premiere Status
Austrian Premiere