Babyn Yar: in search of memory

Director: Volodymyr Cheppel

Country: Ukraina

Year of production: 2017

Duration: 41 min

Subject:

Right to liberty
Freedom from torture
Discrimination
Right to human dignity
Minority rights
The citizen and the state
Right to freedom of religion
Right to life
Right to freedom of movement
Totalitarian regimes

Audience:

Students
Teachers
Activists / NGOs

People walk along the paths of the park among the various monuments and do not always remember that this is the site of the most terrible tragedy - the deaths of tens of thousands of Jews, Ukrainians, Poles, and Roma who were killed because of their faith, nationality, and profession. Volodymyr Chepel's film tells the story of Babyn Yar, the tragedies of World War II, and Kurenivka. This film is about hope for the lessons of memory, hope that such tragedies will never happen again.

director

Volodymyr Cheppel

Is a cinematographer, director and producer from Donetsk. He has been making documentaries since the beginning of the Russian-Ukrainian war. Since 2014, he has been working on various documentary and fiction projects as a cameraman and producer. As a cameraman, he has worked with SBS Dateline, BBC, Al Jazeera and other media productions. As a producer, he worked on the following films: "Headlong (dir. Maryna Stepanka), 2017; Rhino (dir. Oleg Sentsov), 2021.