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Good afternoon, you have questions, you will receive answers. Also interesting questions. Sportnikov veresen, every friday at 21 15 at espresso. Friends hello, my greetings, the next half hour we will talk about ukrainian and not only ukrainian culture, but for the most part, of course, proukrainian as always, but we will start with the youth film festival, which is starting right now, right now, in the Cultural Center of krakow, on rusanivka in kyiv, the welcome drink has started, this such a gathering of cinematographers, they already started drinking and eating something there. And discuss the festival and their cinematic challenges. Ahead of the red carpet and the opening ceremony, which will show Franco Zeffirellis romeo and juliet, this is one of the most remarkable adaptations of this tape, and it has already turned 100 years old, for this, for this honor, this film will be shown on the big screen in youth, i will not tire of emphasizing that films, well, if it is not something already about the simple and primitive, it is worth watching on occasion on a big screen, because what you watch, god forbid, on a laptop, or on a computer or even on a big tv, its not the same, on a big screen you will see completely different meanings, shots, you will see some Little Things that cannot be seen on such a small screen, so i am very happy that they are different film festivals give us the opportunity to watch films, especially classics that are so prominent on the big screen, well, what about ukrainian films, well, let me remind you, first of all, that the youth program, as always, like any festival, is quite extensive, but i i want to Pay Attention to ukrainian films, first of all, this is a short metre, the blocks are traditional short metre, if you want to watch a lot of different ukrainian films at once, then this is the right place for you, our short films have been of very good quality for a long time, you will enjoy it, i i think in any case to get to know some directors, churches, whom we may not have known before, but if we talk about the full meter, then of course, the greatest attention is focused on the steppe marina of beauty, this film, which recently received at. The locarno silver leopard festival, and also the phi prissy prize, marina vroda received an award for directing, and i would like to remind you that marina vroda had been waiting for a fulllength film for a long time, why, because she once received an entire palm branch at cannes for her short film cross, and since then yasnorichi they waited, waited, what marina would do, and she did. Then more short films, and finally she shot a full film, and as we can see, it turned out to be quite successful at film festivals, because auteur films are defined by quality, in particular at awards, at various film festivals, and the locarno festival is one of the most prestigious film festivals in the world , so of course this is a big win. Stepne tells about a man who returns to an extremely remote village, to his mother, she lives alone, a neighbor looks after her, her mother is already very old, you can see that there is something she is already dying, and the film shows both family relationships and some kind of work with memory, people at the wake remember the period of the holodomor, it is all filmed in such an interesting enough documentary manner, and i will say that the film stepne, it is completely not not entertaining, this is a film to come to. It means that you are so inclined to watch and evaluate the direction, you need to think, you need to watch , it makes me happy that we have such tapes, so be sure to Pay Attention to this tape and i hope that this film will also be released, well and they will also show another ukrainian fulllength film on youth, it is already much easier, it is called, it is called stay online, yevilnikov, it is shot in a rather interesting format, where the characters often communicate with each other online, at different zoom levels, on different messengers, format this one is far from experimental, because there are already very, very many such tapes, but you know, the big advantage of this format is that it is cheap, that usually such films cost much cheaper than if you had to shoot on many cameras, on some locations, i havent watched this movie , its about stay online, i wont say anything about it, but i hope that the audience will like it too, well, ill say that it s still very much so, i wouldnt say that these discussions are very frequent, but they still happen, they say not at the right time, now holding various all these film festivals, music awards, all this entertainment all this part, but i want to say that it is definitely not true, from my point of view, it is not so, because it is the support of culture, in any form in this case, it is the support of the music industry, its development, book, cinematographic, and some other visual arts , so it is of course a very good thing that these events take place in my first place, secondly, more precisely, there are very often some gatherings, money is being collected for the needs of the defense forces, and after all, before the fullscale invasion, i did not hear such a massive, well, popularity both in the mass, and at these events, mentions of the defense forces, about thanks to them, the military are invited and mentioned about them, thanks again, something there collect, so these events theyre sort of entertaining, on the one hand, but on the other hand, its supporting the industry and its also a constant reminder of the war as well, so you know, it would be very foolish to say that the people who come to these events, they for forgetting about the war, on the contrary, there is always talk about the war, if we talk about film festivals, then there are an extraordinary number of films about the already fullscale invasion, so no one has forgotten anything, friends, dont worry, and by the way, red red pedestrians, they turned green pedestrians, a little more modest, people, they also have a much more modest look, not like it was before, but you know, not everyone in the world thinks like that, for example, the organizers of the mtv ceremony, the european awards, this is one of the biggest such music awards, they canceled this year their ceremony, which was supposed to take place already in november in paris, in france, in paris, this was very much expected, because this ceremony, it constantly takes place in different cities, in europe, but not in paris it was already a long time ago and they were waiting there, but agreed that its dangerous enough right now, thats the first reason why this ceremony was canceled, put it this way, because of the instability of world events, and also, the organizers said that they believe that given the tragic events that are happening, and have they primarily mean the war between palestine and israel, and they said that it is inappropriate now, they do not want to do it and canceled, by the way, i also want to remind you that these are all cancellations or postponements of such large world events, they are already familiar enough from the period of the beginning of covid, then. They either canceled or went online , and then some other events also started, strikes started in hollywood against artificial intelligence, and now all the cancellations of events continue again, so this is a usual thing, well, now lets move on to scandals, cultural scandals, you know, i really like this, because i remember the periods, even before the fullscale invasion, how little cultural topics attracted attention , there can be no scandals out of the question, especially if we talked about literature what kind of scandals there can be, people are spinning in their little bubble, maybe 15 people are scandalizing themselves , yes, but in general it did not work out, but now we see that book, literary scandals, scandals related to writers, with there were a lot of them, mostly they relate to the classic question of whether to perform or at. Perform with the russians at the same venues, at the same events abroad, we have discussed this topic more than once and each time we came to the conclusion that the question is extremely complicated it should be prescribed in some way, make some strategies, not act emotionally, act diplomatically, intelligently and cunningly, even sometimes, but actually, i think you already know that Khrystyna Solovyi and Serhii Zhadan shot a music video called heart, well, it was once again discussed in the context of such a possible romance between sergiy and khrystyna, but imagine again, do you remember when the country once discussed possible romantic relationships between writers, women writers, or other writers on social networks so massively there is more there was no such thing, and now i will repeat it, it makes me terribly happy, although there, you know, somehow. That sergey and khrystyna themselves do not like this kind of attention, but on the other hand, they actively support these rumors, therefore, it seems to me that the conversations about their closedness and reluctance to let anyone into their personal lives are somewhat exaggerated, but the fact is that people did not have time to discuss this issue of the music video itself, and again, these Little Things about romantic relationship, appeared a new portion of the scandal, and the representatives of the church of andrew the firstcalled in lviv, in which this video was filmed, they, they made a statement on facebook, and the statement was written quite correctly, but the priests said that you know, we demand that this the clip was removed from youtube, why, because there is lewdness there, there are antichristian values , of course it was about. There were various kisses between a girl and a girl, which were not in the church, by the way, they were filmed separately on the street, but also in the context of this video, and so the priests didnt like it, they are now they ask to remove all this, but i dont know, in my environment, of course, the opinion of these priests was not very supported, on the contrary, they started to make fun of them, they say, for such a very archaic, oldfashioned view of all manifestations in general. Love, they say, even your Roman Catholic colleagues are not outraged by this fact, well, at least in public, they try not to do it, as always, we are offended, but, by the way, lets look at the roar from this video. My dear, the forests are crying for us, and i am their voices, behind the whip to the scythe, and all those who we came to this apocalypse, to the fireshow, but actually, what worries me here in this situation is that this is not the first time that some interesting event takes place in lviv, Something Interesting appears, are some videos being shot, or anything. And someone from lviv appears, who begins to declare that it is terrible, that it is licentious, antichristian values, thats how they begin to mention. And from all this even such a meme about st. Lviv appeared in which nothing can be done, although on the other side near every church you can to find a shop, yes sex sex sexop some kind of thing, and this gives rise to more and more conversations, some mocking of the fact that in lviv there is such an archaic atmosphere, and they say that people there are not modern and all that other stuff, but it seems to me that that this is not true, and you know, there is even such a Conspiracy Theory , my friends from lviv often talk about it too , who do not like this whole situation, who say, listen, we are not like that, in general, they have a Conspiracy Theory, that all this is done on purpose, somehow artificially, that lviv constantly wants to publicly show it as such the capital of hypocrisy and moralism, i want to say that from my point of view this is also not the case, because one of the last ones was. Such scandals of showdowns because of such a small cow shop in the center of lviv, where they sell biscuits in the shape of pies, like in they are written, and vagin, and this is such a very, very popular attraction, there are always some incredible queues, there are several types of these, several types of these biscuits, and this is just an extremely popular thing, many of my friends ask, where can i find this shop find, thats so cool, thats right creative, and it attracts tourists and creates, again, this is such a small thing that creates a positive image of lviv, its extremely incredible and interesting gastroculture, and there are a lot of such cases in lviv, and here are all the attacks, whether they are artificial or not , i dont like them, i hope that we will all treat this all with humor, and not take it seriously, and not. Think that all lviv residents are just like that, if only all lviv residents were like that , who would open all these shops with strings, thats why go to lviv, you can find a lot of interesting things there for both tourists and nontourists. And one more topic related to show business, which was discussed during last week, this week and in general, is this again the lviv wedding, as it is called, the wedding that made a big fuss between the former prosecutor rostislav milnytskyi and roxelanna moskva, a former dbbr employee, they had an incredibly lavish wedding, and photos from it were first in the press, then in social networks, people gathered that, as they say, in principle, how is a cake alone worth not knowing some money, just crazy, and it was all celebrated there for two days, first 300 guests, then 500, and after people discussed the newlyweds themselves, and where they got the money for such an event , well, they began to discuss the artists who performed there, and it was dzidzo oleksandr ponomav, the camera band , the bells of the sun, the claim is the following, and why did you perform there at all, how is it possible, although to be honest, before that, there were no ukrainian artists, i i have not heard such loud claims, why you perform, there are some potential corruptions, that is why our artists are poor, of course they did not know that this is not possible , they went on their own, performed there and now they are being kicked out, and the only one, it seems, so far, who somehow responded to all these measures, is olya polyakova, she generally likes, by the way, it seems to me, to make various statements about herself on instagram, she usually does not keep silent when there are some scandals with her participation, she tries to explain everything, but now she also explained, although i did not understand from her explanation after all, olya is indignant that from her, as from an artist demand to check the audit of some, to audit, some people who are constantly invited to perform, they say, it is not her business, it is not the business of the artists, it is the business of the competent authorities, which for some reason do not fight with potential corruptors, it is difficult to disagree with her, why former employees of the idr and the Prosecutors Office can make such a wedding and they had no questions about it, but on the other hand, olya says that in the future we will check our customers there with the producer, the producer separately also made a statement on facebook that we will do so, we will to check potential corruption where we go, and the issue is complex enough, on the one hand, on the other hand, it relates to, you know, our growth as a society, because in many ways, remember when the fullscale invasion went on there for several months, and already the artists began to go abroad for some events, or there, as they said, to collect money, because it did not always happen, but very often they really collected enough money for the needs, for the needs of the defense force, and what happened , ah, became frequent cases, when, of course, someone from the audience filmed stories, ah, put himself on instagram , and we saw that some ukrainian artist was performing there, some russian oligarchs were in the hall, or it turned out that the customers were russians, it turned out that there were some ticket operators there russian, and each time there were stormy scandals, and the artists at first there in their very frequent manner said that do not cling to us, that you hate us, look how much money we collected, so we did not check anything there, but since these scandals happened and happened, well, ours the musicians still decided that it was easier and safer to check all these customers, all these ticket operators, so that there would be no questions. Well, now obviously the time has come to check people and customers in ukraine, because we see that the tolerance for corruption is becoming less and less, we are getting closer to zero, i hope that someday we will get closer, and this is the public reaction, the reaction of people, indignation when they see such a wedding, they see the artists who performed there, there are questions for the artists, and i hope that they will be with. More picky, when they will go to some weddings, some birthdays, corporate parties, the opening of something and so on, although you should also agree with the artists, they say that there are not many orders now, they need to be fed yours, to pay your employees, your teams, it is indeed so, but again, this is not a reason to speak for people to whom there is, to put it mildly, well, and now we also move on to such more pleasant topics, the astrid lingreen award we have will be, soon, april 9 and her, on her nominated ukrainian three ukrainian authors, sashko dermanskyi, halyna vdovichenko and ivana drusiak, as well as a whole large book festival, a book arsenal, and this is very pleasing, we hope that our writers will receive an award, and the Astrid Lingren award, she founded it in 2003, through medicine after the death of the writer, one, well, it is clear that the award is given not only to writers who write childrens literature, it is generally about people who are involved in this industry, these are illustrators, publishers and so on next, and such an interesting point, among the members of the jury there must be , there must be one of the relatives, Astrid Lingren, and here is such a chip, it seems quite interesting to me, also, extremely good news, already on november 2 in ukrainian rental , although limited, there is a documentary by sergei bukovsky, ivan and marta, here i strongly encourage you to go see it, because it tells about ivan dzyuba and his wife, mrs. Marta, it is not only about their love story, extremely also interesting. And about the sixties, and about how they lived, what they fought against, well, we understand what they fought against, but what exactly were their actions, what were their conversations, how they were, what they discussed there, how they disagreed with each other, its all extremely interesting, and all this serhii bukovsky shows us as one of our most outstanding documentarians, who can always tell not only such an important story with a good original film language, but also its just interesting, banal interesting to watch his films, so i encourage everyone to watch ivan and marta, actually earlier sergey bukovsky, well, of course he has a lot of films, documentaries, about the holodomor , he has a wonderful film live, but he also made a film about valentin sylvestrov, our composer, also outstanding , the movie, if you have the chance, watch it too, it is on our. Online on the sites, officially, you can watch this movie, too, i think you will get some intellectual entertainment pleasure when you watch this tape, because Valentyn Sylvestrov is an extremely original person and what he says, how he says it, is interesting to listen to. Well, i will also remind you that in serbia, what to expect from serbia, friends, of course, the cancellation of the 20 days show in mariupol, october 11, this show was supposed to take place in the Cultural Center in the city of lazareots, and the Serbian Radical Party opposed it, they said, that this film is antirussian. Which you cant disagree with, but they think its a very big negative for the film and said thats it, well to protest, you cancel this show, and it was canceled in the Cultural Center, but we also have such a positive thing that there were also people in serbia who were against this decision, for example, the independent association of journalists, they condemned this act, this is the decision of the Cultural Center , and actually about this cancellation, and these journalists told, well, here is such a story, but well, it happens, unfortunately, not so rarely, especially in countries, in countries like serbia, in hungary, too , happened, so we are not surprised, but there are, again, we cover this news with good news, there is such a festival that takes place in amsterdam, az fay is, for sure, the most prestigious documentary film festival, it is from. It will be on november 8, it will open with a ukrainian tape photo for memory, the director olga chornykh is there tells about three generations of women, how they interact with each other, about the war, there is, of course, how they experience the war, there are references from their past, from the history of ukraine, i have not watched this film, but i really hope that it will be interesting, that the main thing is he the audience at this festival will like it, i will remind you once again that these are all. Screenings at various kfestivals, they are extremely important, because many people gather there, they watch ukrainian stories, they communicate with ukrainian filmmakers already after the screening, our filmmakers respond on various issues, refuting, various narratives of russian propaganda, promoting some of our ideas, this is extremely important, so it is very good that it continues, but there are warnings that this, that we will have such a. Certain pit, already soon, so that movies already about during the fullscale invasion of the state cinema are not financed, there is hope that after all, after all, they will allocate money for cinema for the next year, but still, such a disaster awaits us, because we had a sufficiently long period when films at all were filmed, at least big feature films, there is hope for documentary filmmakers who filmed at their own expense and maybe with the money of some foreign don. And finally, i will say that Agnieszka Hollands film green corridor, which caused great controversy in poland, was shown in kyiv, but these were mostly disputes between politicians, and it became absolutely clear when i watched this film, i will say that agnieszka holland, probably the most famous polish director in the world, her film green corridor was shown at the festival in venice, so it got the special jury prize immediately after this award in poland, while waiting for the release of this film, which started on september 22, the politicians there began to spread terrible treason, just terrible, they began to say that this tape, it is antipolish, antistate, whats more, it was compared to nazi propaganda , for example, the minister of justice stated this, coincidentally, he said that the director shows the poles. As bandits and murderers, that the film is really similar to those films made by nazi propaganda, and also and the minister of internal affairs, commented blessed pobozhiy, said that this is a disgusting slander that harms the polish state and the poles, and the president of poland andrzej duda also spoke, he did not like the film, and he also suggested to agnieszka better, he says better, shoot the film about how the poles received refugees from ukraine. How wonderful, beautiful and humane they were, however, mr. Andrzej himself did not watch the film, now it is during the kyiv critics week, the people of kyiv could watch this film, and i want to say that i did not see anything antipolish there, it was, of course, about with what brutality polish Border Guards and policemen treat refugees, remember, there was a crisis on the border with poland, belarus, there as with the baltic countries, when refugees arrived, whom lukashenko promised that they would easily be able to cross the eu border through poland, latvia, lithuania, estonia, and this turned out to be a lie, and people became hostages of the situation, they were played by the polish Border Guards, then the belarusian ones, and ms. Agnieszka described the polish Border Guards, well, the belarusian ones, of course, as very cruel people and policemen as well. But she didnt mean there