Facade Colour: Blue

Director: Oleksiy Radynski

Country: Ukraine

Year of production: 2019

Duration: 22 min

Subject:

Human dignity
The citizen and the state

Audience:

Lawyers
Students
Journalists
Activists / NGOs

Reform:

Inclusive component:

Florian Yuriev is an architect, artist, violin maker, theoretician and poet. Approaching his 90th birthday, he has to master another occupation, which is completely new for him. In order to save his architectural project, Kyiv’s UFO building, from being absorbed into a shopping mall, Florian Yuriev launches a campaign against the mayhem of property developers in Ukraine’s capital.

director

Oleksiy Radynski

Oleksiy Radynski is a documentary filmmaker and writer. His films have been screened at the Oberhausen International Short Film Festival, DOK Leipzig, Guanajuato, Watch Docs (Warsaw), Odesa IFF, Nowe Horyzonty (Wroclaw), ‘86’ (Slavutych) and other festivals, as well as at e-flux (New York), S A V V Y Contemporary (Berlin), the Institute for Contemporary Arts (London), and other venues. His film The People Who Came to Power (2015, co-directed with Tomáš Rafa) won the main prize in the national competition at Docudays UA in Kyiv.